[Easy Magic] Special Feature: Big Collection of Smartphone Magic Tricks
No matter how old you are, magic never fails to amaze—and it’s a surefire way to liven up any gathering!
Surprisingly, there are plenty of magic tricks that are easy to do, and both adults and kids can enjoy them.
In this article, under the theme of “easy to try,” we’ll introduce a variety of smartphone-based magic tricks all at once!
We’ve selected a wide range—from tricks you can do with just a phone to ones that combine a phone with coins or cards.
Some can even be performed using the spectator’s own smartphone, so go ahead and surprise your friends or coworkers!
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[Easy Magic] Big Feature on Smartphone Magic (21–30)
Edible smartphone
This is the Dokkiri Mask, a magic trick item released by Tenyo.
When you put on the mask—which has a wide, clown-like grin drawn on it—and pretend to eat your smartphone, half of the phone actually appears to vanish.
But with a magic gesture, the missing part of the phone comes back.
The Surprise Mask product is a set that includes both the mask and a smartphone prop, and it comes with an explanation of the secret.
It’s a great item for sparking conversation at parties or breaking the ice when meeting people for the first time.
For legitimate use only! Smartphone unlock magic
It’s a magic trick that unlocks a smartphone! The trick uses the calculator.
You enter any 4-digit number + a 2-digit number + the passcode, press equals, and then have them press the clear button at the end.
Mysteriously, even though the display shows 0, you’ll still know the unlock code! The secret is simple: calculators have a quirk where if you press equals after pressing clear, the passcode number reappears.
This trick only works on iPhones, but never misuse it, and make sure the person who helped with the trick changes their passcode right away!
Introduction on how to use ‘Magic with a Smartphone’
This is a video of a magic trick using the smartphone app “Magic on Your Phone,” where you put a coin inside the phone’s screen—and this time, you actually make the real coin disappear as well.
The method is very simple, but with this approach the coin first appears to go into the screen, and then the real coin vanishes, so your audience will be amazed twice!
A coin instantly transforms into a smartphone
This is a magic trick where, after making a coin disappear and producing it in your palm, you secretly hold a smartphone in your right hand to create the illusion that the coin has transformed into the phone.
Since you’re simply palming both the coin and the phone, anyone can do it with practice.
Although a smartphone is much larger to conceal than a coin or playing card, even children with small hands or women can do it as long as they mind their angles so the audience can’t see it.
It’s easier to succeed if you keep a walking distance between yourself and the audience and perform seated on a chair prepared behind a table.
100% charged in an instant
This is a magic trick where a phone that was supposedly low on battery jumps to 100% after a little “incantation.” The secret is actually very simple.
When the phone is at 100%, set the date and time to match when you’ll perform the trick, then take a screenshot of that screen.
After that, just turn the phone over, pretend to cast the spell, and switch to the screenshot—done! The exact steps may differ depending on your phone model, but as long as you can set the date and time, it hardly requires any practice.
It’s a great option if you want to perform a trick when you’re short on time!
Magic trick where a card appears from a smartphone
It’s a magic trick where you touch a card that appears to be displayed on a smartphone screen and pull it off the screen, and a real card pops out.
The card is hidden behind the phone, and you simply eject it quickly in sync with the on-screen slide—an easy mechanism.
To make it look more mysterious, focus on how you show the card on the phone: for example, take a photo and zoom in so that the slide makes it disappear from the screen.
If you use a dedicated app, you can even make the card move just by moving the device itself, so that’s also recommended.
Magic that turns smartphone photos into reality
It’s a magic trick that makes a wish come true: turning a photo on your smartphone into a real, physical picture you can hold.
Even though a finger touching the screen should only make the image move, if you slide it briskly outward, the photo on the screen disappears and the real one pops out.
The key is preparing the image in advance: display an enlarged version of a photo taken from a distance, and leave blank margins around the outside.
Then, as you slide, you bring up the blank margin on the screen while producing the real photo hidden behind the phone.
That’s the flow of the trick.