Real vs Fake - Genuine Apple Silicone MagSafe and Clear Case vs. Dupes

I always wondered if fake Apple cases came from the same factories as Apple’s products or somebody was trying to make copies that were as close to the original as possible.

So I went and bought around a dozen cases from AliExpress and discovered that knockoff silicone cases are close to the real thing and clear cases are a complete gong show.

See if Amazon sells real Apple cases:

Silicone: https://mreh.ca/2M9D5Vf
Clear: https://mreh.ca/36rJ2na

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So the biggest tell when it comes to figuring out if a case is an authentic Apple case or fake? See if your iPhone recognizes the case as a MagSafe product.

For the silicone cases, other than the evidently fake green case, the majority of the knockoffs came in official looking boxes that even came with the health warning for pacemakers.

The UPC codes for the products all seemed legit except for the purple case which had a UPC code for an iPhone 11 product. I will note that none of the UPC codes matched the one I bought from the official Apple Store.

In general, the cases worked fine with the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro’s. The only other thing worth noting is the every fake case was about 0.5mm thinner than the real ones.

When it comes to clear case, there wasn’t even one product that came close. Every case was different and not in a good way. Some had large corners, other’s didn’t, other’s had cutouts on the back BUT most handled just as well as the actual Apple case. Which isn’t a good thing since Apple’s Clear Case is by far their worst handling product.

In this video:

0:00 Intro
0:45 Silicone Knockoffs
4:44 The Gong Show
8:14 MagSafe Tear Down

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