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crwdns2934241:0crwdne2934241:0 Warwick Raverty

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Hi, I had the same problem. I purchased an Apple Leather Folio Case for my iPhoneX and was very happy with the way that it locked and unlocked the phone on closing and opening the wallet. The happiness evaporated when I purchased a Ztylus Switch 6 case that enables you to take 180 degree wide angle shots, 90 degree wide angle shots, 10x and 20x macro and two telephoto settings. The Switch 6 has the advantage that the 6 little supplementary lenses are fixed into a Ztylus case with no cover that locked/unlocked the screen. Taking the Apple Wallet off and putting the Switch 6 on  every time I wanted to take a macro shot was painful - plus I did not want to have to carry the Switch 6 with me everywhere. How can I incorporate the unlock/lock features of of the Apple Wallet into the Switch 6 was the question? After A LOT of obvious experimentation (all of which failed!), I carefully separated the leather back from the plastic enclosure that holds the phone using a surgical scalpel. This 'operation' is quite difficult as the plastic is very firmly bonded to the leather. About half way through this operation, I found that there is in fact some sort of (non-magnetic - maybe RFID?) sensor embedded in the back of the plastic part of the Apple iPhone that is responsible for picking up the magnetic field in the bottom left of the wallet cover. It is located right under the impressed Apple logo on the rear of the wallet. Putting my $129.00 (Australian) price of the Apple Wallet in jeopardy, I carefully cut out the sensor with the scalpel. Cutting it out without damaging the sensor is relatively easy as the leather is IMPOSSIBLE to separate from the plastic under the sensor. The sensor itself is approximately elliptical in shape and 31 mm long by 26 mm wide (apologies Yankees but the rest of the world has ceased using Imperial units of length!). The top of the sensor is located 37.6 mm from the outer top edge of the plastic enclosure. After more experimentation, I found that simply placing the sensor on the  rear of the Switch 6 plastic case and putting the magnetic flap of the Apple Wallet on the screen of the iPhone X did not lock the phone. The sensor had to be right against the back of the iPhone X and within 0.5 mm of its original position for the Apple Wallet cover to lock/unlock the iPhone X. So an elliptical hole 34 mm long by 30 mm wide had to be cut in the Switch 6 plastic case using a heated scalpel. Then, using electrical insulating tape to cover the whole (and protect the iPhone X) sticky side rearwards, I was able to insert the iPhone X into the Switch 6 case and position the sensor precisely so that the iPhone X locked and unlocked when the Apple Wallet cover was placed over the screen of the iPhone X. Having determined the correct position of the sensor, I embedded it permanently in the hole in the Switch 6 case using quick setting epoxy resin (the insulating tape prevents the epoxy contacting the back of the iPhone). Once the epoxy had set (15 minutes), I removed the iPhone and the insulating tape from the Switch 6 case, reinserted the iPhone and performed more judicious scalpel surgery on the remnants of the Apple Wallet so that I could bond what was left of the leather back of the Wallet to the back of the Switch 6 case using more quick-setting epoxy resin so that the flap of the Wallet folded over the screen of the iPhone and locked it, just as it did when originally purchased. So - complete success. I am now the (only?) owner of a Switch 6 - Apple Wallet hybrid case that allows me to have the 6 little supplementary lenses on the iPhone with me at all times and a case that locks the iPhone X whenever I close the wallet AUTOMATICALLY, and unlocks the iPhone AUTOMATICALLY when the wallet is opened. It's only a little more bulky than the original Apple Wallet, but that is a penalty I'm prepared to live with as I'm able to snap macro shots and wide angle shots whenever and wherever. Why the Ztylus folks couldn't have spoken to the Apple case makers and produced a better product that made all this tinkering unnecessary is beyond me!

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