Leaving credit cards near your iPhone X or iPhone 8, while recharging wirelessly, could cause your credit cards to become a useless piece of plastic.

Just 48 hours ago the new iPhone X has been put on sale and this is already on the way to being the biggest technical fiasco of the company. Without significant news compared to Android, an unattractive design and technical problems seem to have no end. The new terminal makes use of wireless recharging, something that some terminals based on Google's operating system have been using for months. The company with the bitten apple has incorporated it into what is supposed to be the best terminal they can currently manufacture.

The new terminal seems to be plagued with problems of all kinds, including the wireless charging itself, which although it is something that can be comfortable, especially when it comes to the problems of breaking the connectors, making use of the system Wireless charging can be a problem. This recharge system would affect nearby credit cards at the time of use of this recharge technology, as confirmed by Apple itself, damaging the cards and rendering them useless. This problem does not belong only to the iPhone X, but extends to the iPhone 8 and possibly to any other smartphone with this technology.

The logical thing would be to think that this situation is not common, but placing credit cards near a wireless charging point is easier than we can imagine, since leaving the wallet in the drawer of the table or next to the point of recharging is common. Not only this, many cases have a card holder, which leaves the cards completely exposed to the recharge field, this being one of the main problems of this technology.

From Cupertino they are aware that among users these cases with card holders are very common among the company's customers, that is why they have incorporated some lines within the 'Frequently Asked Questions' regarding wireless charging on the terminal's website, which serves as a warning to the problem in question. It is recommended to remove the cards from the case when we are going to charge the terminal, since this type of charge damages the magnetic strip and the chips of the cards, in addition to also damaging the passports or identity documents. This would make credit cards totally useless, due to degaussing and they stop working.

Source: Softpedia