Card Slot Capacity: Some manufacturers straight-up provide a limit as to how many cards you can put in there, and some just tell you the amount of card slots for you to test the limit.

But for others, those magnets are just too big for both, and you’ll have to detach the case for wireless charging, or just charge with a cord, which isn't that repulsive of an idea. But thankfully, quite a few iPhone card holder cases in our list do not interrupt with MagSafe's magic and thus pave way for wireless charging even with the case-and cards-on.

MagSafe Compatibility: If you insist on using MagSafe accessories or any newer-gen device equipped with Qi-enabled charging, keep in mind that a wallet case might get in the way of your wireless experience.

Get it? They’re practically the same thing (I'm reaching, I know)! Why keep them separate when I can use a phone wallet case that both safeguards my device and carries a few cards? Need I really be up against the world with a chunky bifold that’ll bulge out my pant's pocket, and then stuff a six-inch gizmo in there too? And if I keep a wallet, I'm just going to need an AirTag compatible one to keep me from losing it, anyway. It was a level-headed decision: an iPhone is a daily essential you use with hands, cards are also daily essentials you use with hands.

And while I always skipped a generation in between, I did not miss the beat at getting an iPhone case for each and every model-an iPhone wallet case, to be exact.

I'm just an Apple loyalist, what can I say.

Since then-and not that I’m bragging-every phone I’ve owned has been an iPhone, all the way onto the newfangled, all-attitude 14 Pro.

It was an iPhone 5c that checked the “budget' and “handy” boxes for a freshly-minted high-schooler.

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