Apple’s new limited edition iPhone grip is all about accessibility

The chunky grip doubles arsenic a stand, and attaches utilizing MagSafe.

Apple has partnered with creator and decorator Bailey Hikawa connected a caller MagSafe iPhone grip “designed with accessibility successful caput from the crushed up.” The $69.95 Hikawa Phone Grip & Stand is disposable from the Apple Store now, but is listed arsenic a constricted edition.

The basal comes successful either Brat greenish oregon a speckled chromatic decorativeness from Apple, though determination are besides bluish and swirly blurple options disposable from Hikawa’s ain store, and is made retired of soft-touch silicone. It attaches to the iPhone magnetically, doubles arsenic some a grip and a stand, either horizontally oregon vertically, and was designed with “direct input from individuals with disabilities affecting musculus strength, dexterity, and manus control,” according to Apple.

The grip was designed “to enactment varied ways of holding iPhone portion reducing the effort needed to support it steady,” Hikawa says, though acknowledges connected her ain tract that “not each adaptive request tin beryllium met with 1 device.” The artist, who was profiled by The Verge successful 2019, runs a workplace successful LA wherever she produces chunky, structural telephone cases alongside… decorative toilet seats.

“There’s this joyousness that I consciousness erstwhile idiosyncratic says that this is helpful, that they can’t unrecorded without it, that it’s comfy successful their hand, that they can’t judge that they person ne'er experienced this,” Hikawa told Elle Decor. “This is the opening of galore much offerings for each kinds of bodies.”

Apple says the caller grip is intended to people 40 years of accessibility enactment astatine the company. It’s the 2nd accessory concern successful arsenic galore weeks, pursuing a knitted crossbody telephone case produced unneurotic with Issey Miyake.