Popsockets is finally ready for your vertical close up. Completed this week, the new Magsafe Kick-Out grab & stand finally makes it possible to use a popsocket as a tripod for an iPhone in vertical mode. That’s right, all of you tictokers, popsockets just became your hands -free movieing friend.
For years I wore popsockets on the back of my best iPhones (I even had one with a design created by one of my kids). I never stuck the reusable popsocket adhesive directly on the back of my phone and instead always placed a thin, clear plastic over the phone chassis and stabbed the pop-out grip for it.
But when Apple introduced Magsafe, it no longer made sense to me to cover the charging magnet. I could, but for wireless charging I had to pull the phone out of the case. So I switched to a Magsafe-friendly case and forcibly condition from speck, which included an unfolding foot to-you guess the hand-free vertical video footage.
But now I may not need the stain (which unfortunately is inclined to break; I have reviewed three stands). The new Popsocks-Kick-Out grip & stand looks like a traditional popsocket, but instead of a small glue-covered base, the pop-out grip is attached to a larger, round, Magsafe-ready base.
When attached to the back of an iPhone 16 or an iPhone 16 Magsafe case, the base has a hinged body, so you can tilt the pop scale grab away from the phone where it becomes a stand. You can rotate the base to create a tripod for horizontal or vertical placement of videos. In photos and videos provided by Popsockets, it seems that the kick-out stand point perfectly reaches the table, putting the phone at almost a 90-degree angle.
This looks like a nice bit of technique from PopSockets as the hinge has a complete range of motion, which means you can create your iPhone at almost any angle.
You can use Kick-Out Grab & Stand without a case and attach it directly to the back of your iPhone, but Popsocks also sells an accompanying set of Magsafe cases for the iPhone 16-Line (no other iPhone lineups are supported). Like Kick-Out each case sells for $ 40. There is currently no international pricing.
Kick-Out and Stand are not Popsockets’ first Magsafe-friendly design, but it is the first to act as a versatile stand. $ 40 may seem like much to pay for an iPhone grip, but the ability to film hands-free in both modes is difficult to quantify.
I have made many Tiktok-Unboxings using my speck stand in the vertical state and when a tripod was not available, I have supported it up on tables to get a full figure shot.
One thing that is not ready is if Popsocket heads can be exchanged for, for example, seasonal grips that you could do with previous Popsock’s grip. In my house, my wife likes to switch between a spring and a winter -friendly head, which is actually a slice -shaped snow globe.
Magsafe Kick-Out Grab & Stand comes in six material styles and colors, including aluminum raidal silver (or purple), black, latte, putty and dusk.
