The Best iPhone 17 Accessories

The magnet ring is the reason to buy this over a generic clear case. Plenty of cases charge wirelessly. Far fewer put a properly aligned magnet array in the back, and that ring is what lets a charging puck snap on square, a vent mount hold through a pothole, and a wallet stay attached in your pocket. Owners who drive rough roads report the phone staying docked, which is the practical version of that spec.

Pick it up and it still feels like an iPhone. The hard back keeps the case from stretching out over time, the soft bumper takes the hit, and the corners use air pockets to spread impact. It isn't the thickest armor you can buy. But it adds about a millimeter per side, and owners coming from bulkier brands keep saying the same thing: this one goes on and off without a fight.

Clear cases go amber. All of them, eventually — it's UV light and skin oil working on the plastic. Spigen tints the back with a blue-shifted resin to push that off, and the anti-yellowing treatment runs across the line rather than being a claim invented for this model. Expect it to slow the process, not stop it. If you want something that still looks new in three years, buy a colored case.

The Camera Control button gets a thin TPU cover rather than an open hole. That matters more than it sounds. The button is touch-sensitive, so an exposed cutout collects pocket grit and a thick cover kills the slide-to-zoom gesture. Owners report the swipe still registering through this layer, and you get one fewer opening to clean out. Small detail, but it's the one people notice within a week.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

Clear plastic shows everything. Fingerprints along the sides, lint in the corners, and any scuff on the back panel reads as a smudge on the phone itself. You'll wipe this case more often than you'd wipe a matte one, and you'll see every speck that works its way underneath.

It's built for the everyday drop, not the dramatic one. There's a raised lip around the screen and camera, but no shock frame and no rubber armor at the corners. If you work on a jobsite, or you hand the phone to a four-year-old regularly, buy something thicker and accept the bulk.

Speed is the reason to skip a generic Qi pad. Apple's documentation puts standard Qi charging on an iPhone at 7.5 watts, while this puck is certified for Qi2.2 and rated up to 25 watts with a 30-watt adapter. That's not a spec-sheet distinction. A top-up that takes an hour here can take closer to two on a plain pad, and if you charge in twenty-minute bursts before heading out, the gap is the whole point.

Two meters sounds like a boring spec until you try charging on a nightstand with the outlet behind the bed. Owners who buy the longer version keep citing the same thing: they can keep using the phone while it charges instead of leaning over a dresser. The magnet is strong enough that the phone hangs on if you lift it one-handed, so you're not constantly re-seating it.

There's no wall adapter in the box, which is worth knowing before you order. The puck ends in USB-C, so it'll run off a laptop charger, a car adapter, or a brick you already own. To reach the top speed you need a 30-watt adapter; below that it still charges, just slower. If you're coming from an older iPhone, dig out whatever brick you have and check the wattage printed on it.

It works on more than the phone. The same puck charges any AirPods case with wireless charging and iPhones going back to the 8, so it's the one thing here that stays useful after you upgrade. Most chargers get orphaned by the next phone or the next port standard. This one probably won't, and that changes the math on buying Apple's version instead of a throwaway.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

It costs more than certified Qi2 pucks that hit the same peak output, and you're mostly paying for build quality and the reassurance of a first-party part. If magnet strength and cable length are all you care about, third-party options genuinely compete.

The cable is permanently attached. If it frays at the strain point, or a pet decides it looks like a chew toy, you replace the whole charger rather than a cord. It also lays the phone flat rather than propping it up, so it's a nightstand charger, not a desk stand.

Airport, middle seat, phone at 11 percent, and your charging cable is somewhere in the bag you checked. That's the problem this solves. The cable tucks into the side of the pack and doubles as a carry strap, and Anker rates it for more than 10,000 bends — so it isn't the flimsy afterthought that built-in cables usually turn out to be.

Twenty thousand milliamp-hours is the sweet spot for travel. That's roughly four phone charges, and it sits just under the capacity ceiling airlines allow in a carry-on. Go bigger and you start running into rules and real weight. Go smaller and you're rationing by dinnertime. At around a pound it's heavier than a slim magnetic pack, so treat it as a bag item rather than a pocket item.

The wattage matters more than the headline capacity. A single port delivers up to 65 watts, which is laptop territory — Anker's figures put a 14-inch MacBook Pro at half full in under 40 minutes. Split across three devices you get 87 watts total. For your iPhone 17, that means the phone's own charging limit is the bottleneck, not the battery, which is exactly what you want.

Refilling the pack is fast if you feed it properly. Anker rates a full recharge at about an hour and a half from a 65-watt charger. Off a slow adapter, it's an overnight job, and owners regularly get caught out by that on the very first charge — they plug it into a phone brick, come back an hour later, and find it barely moved.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

It isn't magnetic. There's no MagSafe ring, so it won't stick to the back of your iPhone 17 and ride along while you walk around. It lives in a bag with a cable running out of it. If what you want is a battery that clings to the phone during a day at a theme park, this is the wrong shape of product.

It's long and it's heavy — closer to a TV remote than a deck of cards. Owner feedback also flags the low-power trickle mode for small gear like earbuds as fussy to trigger, so if your main use is topping up wireless buds, expect a bit of trial and error.

The Anker power bank comes with an 18-month warranty.

No third-party earbuds disappear into an iPhone the way these do. Open the case near the phone and a card slides up. Take a call and the audio follows. Sit down at a Mac and they switch, usually before you've thought about it. Cheaper buds pair fine over Bluetooth, but you end up managing them — holding a button, digging through a menu, forgetting a device. That difference shows up a dozen times a day.

The noise cancellation is measurably good, not just marketed as good. RTINGS measured this generation cutting low-frequency hum around 100 Hz by more than 35 decibels, the strongest result among the true wireless earbuds they put through the same measurements. Low-frequency droning is exactly what you want gone on a plane, a bus, or an open-plan floor, and it's the part cheap buds handle worst.

Buying renewed is the real trade here. These units are professionally inspected, tested and cleaned before resale, but they aren't Apple-certified refurbished, and the packaging and included ear tips vary from unit to unit. Owner feedback runs mostly positive on how they work — sound and cancellation arriving as expected — with complaints clustering around cosmetics and missing tip sizes rather than performance.

Battery is the unknown in any used pair of earbuds. Cells this small degrade with charge cycles, and a renewed pair has already spent part of its life somewhere else. Some owners describe the battery as effectively like new after months of use; others call charging merely adequate for used hardware. If you listen for six hours at a stretch and can't tolerate a shorter run time, buy new instead.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

Renewed means variable. You might get a set that looks untouched, or one that turns up without the full run of ear tip sizes. Tips are what create the seal, and the seal is what makes the noise cancellation work at all, so plan on buying a replacement tip set if your ears aren't a medium.

Because these aren't Apple-certified refurbished, you're relying on the seller's guarantee rather than Apple's own refurbishment program. Battery health also isn't disclosed at purchase, so there's no way to know how much life the cells have left before the case arrives.