Purported images of Apple's clear cases for the iPhone 18 range are causing unfathomable excitement for how different the MagSafe markings are.
There's a strong chance you never noticed this, and perhaps quite a strong one that you'd now have to look at these images to spot the difference. Yet if you cared about this, you apparently cared a great deal and the latest clear-case leaks may be making you happy.
While there's no confirmation of this at the time of writing, it's claimed that images of the new cases have been circulating on Chinese social media. But wherever they are being shown or circulated, there are images that claim to be of the new Apple clear cases.
Previously on Apple's clear iPhone cases... the company had a circle image on the back to show you where to position the phone for MagSafe charging. For the iPhone 17 range's clear cases, Apple scrapped that in favor of nothing very much.
Instead of a circle or a sometimes broken circle, the clear cases had a large white region. It was mostly rectangular, though since this is Apple, the corners were neatly rounded.
Left: a new purported iPhone 18 range clear case. Right: Apple's current model. Image credits: MyDevices (r) and Apple (l)
It made no difference to how MagSafe works, and there was no special reason it had to happen just because the MagSafe magnets were lowered.
Only, it did mean that if you had this clear case, it wasn't really all that clear at all. Whatever color iPhone you had bought, it was chiefly covered by that white region.
This is why new reports showing the iPhone 18, iPhone 18 Pro, and iPhone 18 Pro Max clear cases have gotten some attention. The large white panel is seemingly gone, and the old circle or broken circle is back.
Reports of the new images were first spotted by MacRumors via Chinese news site MyDrivers.
There is the argument that a clear case ought to actually be clear, and it's true the one for the iPhone 17 range was not.
But perhaps Apple was saving users from revealing they'd bought the horrible orange, or perhaps pink, color iPhone.
