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The Apple iPhone 12 has been shown to have a strong enough magnet to inhibit therapies on implantable defibrillators and put pacemakers in an asynchronous mode (NEJM JW Cardiol Mar 2021 and Heart Rhythm 2021; 18:1040). This has led to the recommendation that this phone not be carried near permanent pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (collectively called cardiac implanted electronic devices, or CIEDs).
It was thought that this problem was unique to the iPhone 12 because of the magnets intentionally placed in the phone. However, in the current evaluation of other portable electronic devices, researchers found that three others — Apple AirPods Pro and their wireless charging case, the Microsoft Surface Pen, and the Apple Penc…