[TiredOfLife]

>> Samsung's S-Pen

Is Wacom. Wacom hates magnets. Apple devices are littered with magnets

[dotancohen]

What does this mean that Wacom hates magnets? I attached a steel plate to the back of my S24 Ultra, in the car it's held on by a big honking magnet. I use the Wacom stylus all the time.

Very curious if there's a fine detail that I'm missing. Thanks.

[TiredOfLife]

Put a magnet near the front of screen and try to use spen

[dotancohen]

I'll try it in the name of science, but I've never encountered this. What is your use case? In the 13 years I've been using Wacom stylii on phones and E-ink devices, I've never encountered this.

[TiredOfLife]

Put on a 3rd party wallet style case with magnet that keeps it closed. Parts of the screen near the magnet stop responding to spen for a time.

Just tested on Note 8. Put magnet on the back of phone and area about 10 times the size of the magnet stops working with s-pen

[AshamedCaptain]

Samsung's Fold devices (1 to 6) are also riddled with magnets (everywhere) and Wacom works fine, and with flexible substrate no less.

That said, apparently it was expensive for them: they got rid of it in this year's iteration.