As a mobile expert, these are 5 popular smartphone accessories I don’t recommend buying

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I’m usually willing to give any phone accessory I come across a chance, partly because I trust those Instagram influencers a little too much. And to be fair, sometimes the weirdest products end up being genuinely useful.

But there are also times when I’ve come across something and wondered who actually asked for it in the first place. Usually, that happens when an accessory fails to live up to the hype — or worse, creates more problems than it solves.