If magnets damage a computer, why aren’t phones damaged by magnetic mounts?
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The whole ‘magnets damage a computer’ hasn’t been true for a while, due to changes in technology.
Magnets were mostly a risk to floppy disks/VCR (stored on magnetic reels), CRT displays (used stream of charged particles), and hard disk drives (stored on spinning magnets).
In modern electronics, these have largely been replaced with LCD displays and solid state drives, which aren’t vulnerable to magnets.
Well, not more than any other electric circuit, at least-but you’ll need a magnet with a lot more oomph than you’ll get out of a simple mount magnet before you need to worry about anything.
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Simple but unpopular answer – they are.
Almost all modern phones contain a magnetometer which helps determine compass orientation for maps and other features, and it absolutely can be permanently damaged or at least messed up by magnetic mounts and any strong magnets brought to the phone.
Magnets don’t damage computers. They can damage hard drives since hard drives store data magnetically, but the majority of computers use solid state drives which use electricity to store information. Solid state drives can’t be magnetically damaged.
Phones use a variation of solid state so they’re also unaffected.
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