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Apple’s iPhone 12 has magnets that can affect pacemakers or other medical implants Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
Apple’s iPhone 12 has magnets that can affect pacemakers or other medical implants
Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
Apple’s iPhone 12 and Apple Watch 6 can disrupt medical implants such as pacemakers if they are held too close to the body, warn researchers.
Such implants often feature a “magnet mode” designed to be deliberately triggered with a strong magnet when a person is undergoing a procedure where interference is possible, such as an MRI scan.
Internal defibrillators in magnet mode won’t deliver lifesaving shocks, while pacemakers will drive the heart at a continuous pace …
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