After selling out nearly instantly in 2025, the Hikawa Grip & Stand is a featured accessory in Apple’s OS 27 accessibility pre-announcement and is available in three new colors.
Apple has brought the MagSafe grip back to the Apple Store online on May 19 in three new colors through a collaboration between Bailey Hikawa and PopSockets. The accessory first launched in November 2025 as a limited-edition Apple collaboration designed for users with disabilities affecting grip, strength, and mobility.
Unlike most phone grips, the Hikawa Grip & Stand was designed with accessibility in mind from the start. Bailey Hikawa created the oversized MagSafe accessory to support different holding positions and reduce the effort needed to keep an iPhone steady.
Large sculpted curves make the grip look more like adaptive hardware than a conventional iPhone accessory. Hikawa said during the original launch that the design came from an extensive interview process focused on supporting different ways of holding an iPhone.
The original release also drew criticism for its limited-edition positioning and premium pricing. Readers questioned why an accessibility-focused accessory would be sold as a short-run collaboration rather than a standard product.
The arguments around the product were shortsighted and lacked understanding of the product’s development. Someone didn’t simply take a piece of rubber and put a hole in it, but they spent a lot of time and effort to build a widely accessible product out of materials that would feel nice and achieve a good weight and sturdiness. That kind of research comes at a cost.
The updated launch expands availability well beyond the product’s original release.
Apple folds the Hikawa grip into a larger accessibility rollout
Apple announced the Hikawa Grip & Stand alongside a broader slate of accessibility features coming later in 2026, including generated subtitles for uncaptioned videos, more detailed image descriptions in VoiceOver, and eye-tracking wheelchair controls for Apple Vision Pro.
Instead of appearing as a niche designer collaboration, the grip is now being presented as part of Apple’s wider accessibility ecosystem. Its oversized shape is designed to make the iPhone easier to hold for users who may find traditional flat-backed phone designs difficult, uncomfortable, or impossible to use without assistance.
The Hikawa Grip & Stand for iPhone is available in Glow Blue, Orange Swirl, and Speckled Stone for $54.95 through the Apple Store online.
Stephan is the sports journalist for the Maple Grove Report.
