Belkin’s $30 Continuity Camera accessory is now available for MagSafe iPhones - TechCrunch

Continuity Camera was 1 of the odder additions that arrived successful the past circular of Apple operating strategy updates. It seemed similar an awkward hole to a longstanding contented with Mac webcams, clipping your iPhone to the apical of your laptop lid, but I’ve travel to admit it successful my caller travels.

Today, Belkin announced the availability of the archetypal authoritative Continuity Camera solution, the memorably named Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe. This was the accessory Apple teased each the mode backmost astatine WWDC this summer. It’s efficaciously a silicone ellipse with MagSafe magnets successful the rear.

That snaps onto the backmost of the iPhone, and the tiny retractable articulator goes implicit the apical of the screen. It’s intended to beryllium utilized with the rear-facing cameras facing toward you — successful fact, without that successful place, you whitethorn person occupation firing up the diagnostic astatine all.

That large metallic ringing that looks similar a soda tin pop-top, connected the different hand, isn’t really connected to the feature. Instead, it’s intended for the remainder of the time. The thought is you tin support it connected the backmost of the telephone and instrumentality your digit done the loop for a amended grip. The magnet surely seems beardown enough.

There are 2 versions of the accessory, including a larger 1 designed specifically for desktops – that 1 is presently listed arsenic “coming soon.” The quality owes to the heavy of the larger displays. Unfortunately that means you won’t beryllium capable to usage the models interchangeably.

Belkin sent maine a demo portion astir the clip of my archetypal macOS Ventura writeup and the last exemplary arrived conscionable arsenic I was leaving for Disrupt, truthful I program to enactment it done its paces this week with each of the league calls I’m going to person to leap connected successful the greenroom (sorry everyone else).

The iPhone 14 Pro’s camera beats the latest Mac Air’s by a mile. Honestly, it isn’t adjacent close. Obviously, champion lawsuit script is conscionable amended webcams built into the systems themselves, but this surely works successful a pinch, particularly erstwhile connected the road.

My biggest contented astatine the infinitesimal has little to bash with accessory than the implementation of Continuity Camera. Specifically, the iPhone 14 Pro is dense — and the Pro Plus adjacent much so. The caller MacBook Air’s hinge, meanwhile, doesn’t look to person been specifically developed with this capableness successful mind. That means that, unless the lid is astatine oregon adjacent a 90-degree angle, the surface has a inclination to commencement lowering nether the weight.

Something to support successful mind.