Customer Ratings & Reviews

Not a good charge and clip comes off easy if pulled wrong

Yeah, don’t buy this. It last three days then broke.

I need ly dash csm plugged into the cigarette spot, i wish it was usb but it isnt so i just bought a cheaper belkin one which is def nicer quality and i just plug my charge cable into my cars usb port and charge it like that

Broke the second time i “attempted” to put my phone on it bc it never stayed on more than 10 seconds bc it was so weak of a magnet it would just fall. Scratched my dash in my m5. Yay save yourself the headache and just pay for a good one.

Did not work with phone case, the magnetic part was not strong enough

Can I give it a 0? This is completely useless never buy this! The magnet is not strong enough to hold the phone let alone a phone with a case on it. Even removing the case it failed to hold the phone.

Bestbuy should discontinue this charger if they don’t want to replace or repaire with total tech.

Connected and would charged for 20 seconds or so before not charging any longer. Waste of money. Will be returning this week.

This charger SUCKS!!! DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME & MONEY!! I have never written a review this is the first!! Do not buy!!!

Did not work properly in the car…Magnet does not attach to the phone

It is not sturdy at all. It moves around and will not stay in place

did not fit my phone correctly so i unfortunately had to return it.

It would chargw for maybe 10 seconda then stop. Returned.

I could not get this charger to work in my vehicle, I had to return it.

Broken when opened. Not a good item. Wouldn’t charge phone

magnet isn't strong enough to hod the iphone 14 promax in place.

So, this is a newly released magnetic car charger from Best Buy's in-house brand, Insignia. If you're in the market for a charger for that new iPhone 13 or 14 Pro Max, you could do a lot worse for the money. I believe this is Best Buy's second attempt at a car charger with MagSafe, and it's a solid entry point that will work for most people's needs. Unboxing is nothing special, and everything is plug right in and go. The cord that attaches to the charger isn't too long, nor is it too short; it's a good length. Once plugged in you just slide the vent prongs where you want them to be and are good from there. I never had my phone fall off the charger during use, no matter how rough the roads were or how tight a turning radius I needed to do. My phone would charge at about 1% per minute, which to me is acceptable. I believe some can do it faster, but this is good to me. You can move the direction of the pad how you want and then tighten it from there via a washer on the back of the pad. I found this strength ok, but sometimes due to the weight of my phone (14 Pro Max + case), the pad would move directions. In reality, the only gripe with the charger is that the prongs that connect to your air vents is a tad tricky for vents that are portrait/vertical oriented rather than landscape/horizontal. We tried this on our two vehicles, and the one with upright vents was more of a pain to deal with than the one with horizontal ones. That said, it's the only gripe. The price is good, the quality seems good, magnetics strong, and cord isn't too long. I'd recommend for sure.

I like this little MagSafe charger. It has enough magnetic strength that my phone doesn't bounce around and I don't have to worry about it falling off the charger when I hit a bump or something. I also like the fact that it has an extra USB port on the back of the 12v plug so my wife (or someone else) can charge their phone at the same time. Additionally, the charger provides enough power that I can even increase my battery's charge percentage while using a map app/GPS to navigate. With some of my older chargers, they would only maintain my existing battery level while navigating and wouldn't add to the charge of the phone. The only things I really don't like about this, hence the 4 stars and not 5, is that it was frustratingly difficult to clip the charger into my car's air vents. (However that difficulty is also the reason that the phone, and charger doesn't fall off while driving.) Additionally, wire management is frustrating and the cable that connects to the back of the charger is difficult to squeeze in-between my dash and radio like some older chargers I had. Overall, I would recommend this as its good for the price.

I was more than a little excited to get to try this magnetic car charger out! I’ve owned previous car chargers in the past and the experience was very lackluster. You had to install weird plates in between your phone and the case. They didn’t support the weight of the phone so the phone would be falling all over the place while you drive, so eventually I just went on sans phone charger and went back to the old school charging cable. Fast forward to getting this bad boy in and WOW - how far we’ve come. Cars are interesting spaces because all though engines and technology evolve, the car interior still remains a space that is mostly the same (think about that tight space between your seat and the middle console where everything falls - no one wants to address that? No one?). My car does come with a small space on the side of the shifter where you can lay a phone. It barely accommodates my iPhone 13, but it’s at an angle where it’s leaning and mostly the phone is outside “slot” than it is inside. Because I do have a heavier foot my phone ends up falling out on turns and then it’s taking off across the passenger seat and into the dark enclaves that are the spaces between my seat and middle console and seat and door. After installing this mount, the first thing that struck me is the grip. It actually grips onto the vent in a way where it doesn’t pull the vent downward like previous experiences with car mounts. Initially I mounted the phone towards the right-hand side of the of the middle vent (closest to me as a driver), but eventually I’d move it over left because if you use CarPlay the height of the phone blocks the screen that I would be predominantly using (the car interface screen). Other than that, I loved the height, it was just off to the left side of the car’s built-in screen but still cleared the steering wheel so I didn’t feel like I was going to bump it or knock it off it’s holder. For an iPhone 14 Pro series, with the new always on display, I could see this being an optimal placement as you can see more information on your lock screen than what your car’s built-in display may show. The magnet in this charger is phenomenal. I took some railroad tracks pretty hard to try to make it shift or fall and it clung into place, un-phased by my efforts. It’s also nice that in addition to a super strong magnet, it was charging my phone up. So after running all my errands, my phone was in the 90’s charge percentage versus less than 50 when I started. I will call out that I DO appreciate Best Buy’s honesty in marketing this. A lot of third party manufacturer’s pull this sly marketing trick where they market these wireless chargers as fast chargers and they can get away with it because on Android they are. Because this car charger is strictly for iPhones and it’s third party, it’s limited to 7.5w of charging power and I appreciate Best Buy not playing word twister to try to market it as anything other than what it is — which is faster than those old bricks that came with say an iPhone 4-X/XR/XS but about 1/3 the speed of the new USB-C wall plugs you can use with the newer iPhones. But if you’re going to be driving around and it’s sitting there charging, this works out to be a reasonable amount of power and it’s also safer for the overall health and longevity of your phone’s battery. One thing that surprised me about this charger is it actually eliminated me getting temperature (heat) warnings on my iPhone. I live in the south where on a “good day” it’s in the high 80’s, low 90’s so one of the issues I frequently run into laying my phone in the slot next to my shifter is the sunlight is beaming in on it from the passenger and front windshield and often times I’ll be listening to music and it will just shut off and it’s so commonplace now that I already know what happened — sure enough when I flip the phone over it says it needs to cool down. The angle this sits at and because it’s below the dashboard and somewhat almost behind the steering wheel, it creates a nice little shaded enclave where it dodges direct sunlight and bonus, when I’m driving with the AC on, it may also be contributing to keeping the phone cool since it’s directly connected to the vent. I tried to find a con - I was honestly more impressed with this than I thought I would be - and the only con I could think of are these: (1) there’s no CarPlay support. Because this plugs into a cigarette port to provide wireless charging versus say your car’s USB-A or USB-C port, you end up running extra cabling because if you want to take advantage of CarPlay, it means you’ll need to run a separate USB cable. While the charger DOES give you an extra USB-A cable back, this port can’t be used to interface with CarPlay since it’s going thru the cigarette port and not the actual USB interface. If your vehicle has wireless car play, then this wouldn’t matter, but mine is a little older and doesn’t. (2) Because the wireless charger plugs in via cigarette port, it may limit you using other accessories in your vehicle. Luckily, my dash cam runs via OBD port, but many others DO use this for power, so that could potentially be something to consider. TLDR summary: Best Buy really showed up and showed out with this and there’s a few things if you really wanted to be knit picky but for me I would buy this and recommend this for others in a heartbeat. At the right price, this could also be a very easy stocking stuffer for the holiday time too.

This is a standard no-frills wireless charger for iPhones and associated cases which support MagSafe charging capabilities. For reference, I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max and my husband has an iPhone 13, and on both we use Apple branded MagSafe cases; I have a silicone case and my husband has a clear case. We have tried and used both of our iPhones on this Best Buy iPhone car charger. It has a nice long but not-too-long cable between the charging pad and the power adapter part which plugs into the "cigarette lighter" port of the car. It is a bonus that the power adapter has an additional USB-A port which you can use to charge something else at the same time. The strength of the magnetic pull when placing the iPhone onto the charging pad is good; it is strong enough so that you won't be worried that your iPhone will bump off or slide off easily with the slightest bump in the road, while at the same time it isn't too strong where you would need to pry your iPhone off with two hands when grabbing it off the pad. As someone who is very used to plugging and unplugging my iPhone several times daily in my car, it is really nice to simply lift it off and place it on the pad when getting in and out of my car. There is a caveat, however--if you like using Apple CarPlay, you will have to make sure your car supports wireless Apple CarPlay; otherwise, you will still need to connect your iPhone physically, using its lightning connector. If your car does not support wireless CarPlay, you can still use this product to wirelessly charge your iPhone and not use a lightning connector, where you would be interacting with your iPhone using your car's standard Bluetooth connection for Siri, listening to music, etc. Overall I think this product, at its price point, does the job decently; however, where it fails somewhat is how it attaches to the car vent. There is no adjustable or solid clamp mechanism, which I have utilized before in other smartphone car holders which attach to car vents. Instead, there is something which looks like a bird's triangular beak from the side, and you shove one of your car vent's slots in between the upper and lower "beaks". There is nothing to secure it further onto the car vent slot, so even with a slight push from any direction, it will move. It is a somewhat stable enough connection, but is in no way a rock-solid clamped-down, fully secure, will not move unless you purposefully knock it down, type connection. Again, I say this because I've had about 3-5 other smartphone car holders which attach to car vents, and they've all had much better, much more solid and tight connections to car vents than this one. For this reason I docked it a star in my rating.