Mobile phone cabinets

Mobile phone cabinets for schools, offices and meeting rooms

What do the new rules on phones in Swedish schools say?

From 1 August 2026 school is to be phone-free in the compulsory school forms, after-school centres and open leisure activities. Pupils' mobile phones are to be collected at the start of the school day and handed back at the end of it. The rules are set out in the Swedish Education Act, and the Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket) has summarised them on its website.

Exceptions may be made, for example when a pupil needs the phone as support. That does not change the choice of cabinet, but it is worth allowing a few extra compartments for those pupils and for the teachers' own phones.

The rules do not say how the phones are to be stored. The school decides whether phones are collected class by class in a cabinet in the classroom, or centrally in a corridor. Both solutions are here, and the difference is the number of compartments.

How many phones should the cabinet hold?

Count one compartment per person in the group that hands in phones at the same time, and filter on Number of compartments. One cabinet per classroom or department is usually enough. If a whole year group or floor hands in at one place, you need a wall of cabinets or one built for it.

Allow a few extra compartments. Teachers, substitutes and visitors need somewhere too, and a full cabinet turns into a queue at the door.

Deposit slot or individual locks?

Cabinets with a deposit slot let the user drop the phone into a numbered compartment without opening it. Nobody has to unlock thirty compartments in the morning, and no one can take someone else's phone. At the end of the day the main door opens and the phones are handed back.

Cabinets with a lock on every compartment suit the case where the same person uses the compartment all day, for example staff or visitors outside a meeting room. The user keeps the key.

Window doors let staff see which compartments are free, which helps where people come and go during the day.

Key, code or tag?

Key locks are the most common and come with two keys per compartment. Several cabinets have a master key that opens every compartment, so a lost key does not stop the day. Choose the key lock value in the Lock system filter.

An electronic code lock suits cabinets used by changing groups. No keys to keep track of, and the code can be changed between terms.

Tag and card are used on our digital phone cabinet, where every withdrawal is logged. More on that in the next section.

Digital phone cabinet: who has which phone?

When the phones belong to the organisation and are lent out, knowing where they are is not enough. That is what our digital phone cabinet with tracking and charging is for. It was developed in Sweden together with the healthcare sector and suits schools and companies just as well.

Staff log in with an RFID card or tag, and a PIN code can be added for extra security. The touchscreen on the cabinet shows at once which phones are out and who has them. If someone takes the wrong phone, the cabinet raises an alarm with sound and light.

Everything is managed in the cloud from a computer, phone or tablet: add users, name the phones and control who may borrow which. The history shows who had a particular phone and when. More cabinets can be connected to the same cloud service without an extra licence, so the system can grow over time.

Each compartment charges its phone with the charging cable supplied, and a built-in backup battery keeps the cabinet running through short power cuts. Installation and operation of the cloud service are charged separately.

Should the phones charge while locked away?

Cabinets with charging have an outlet in each compartment, so the phone is charged when it is handed back. The Charging filter shows them. There are cabinets with USB charging for Lightning, Micro-USB and USB-C, and cabinets with an ordinary power socket in the compartment for those who bring their own charger.

Without charging the cabinet is cheaper and needs no power where it hangs. For a school day or a meeting that is usually enough.

Where will the cabinet hang?

Every cabinet here is wall-mounted and takes no floor space. They come with pre-drilled holes in the back and are fitted in the classroom, in the corridor or outside the meeting room.

Measure the wall first. The Outer height in mm, Outer width in mm and Outer depth in mm filters show what fits. The depth decides how far the cabinet sticks out into a corridor people walk through.

Several cabinets have a felt-lined base, so screens are not scratched when phones go in and out every day.

Mobile phone cabinet or cube locker?

The difference is what the compartment holds. A phone cabinet has many small compartments for phones. For keys, wallets and handbags, see our cube lockers. For laptops and tablets that need to be locked away and charged, see computer cabinets and charging trolleys.

How to use the filters

Start with Number of compartments and Charging.

Then choose Lock system for how phones are handed in, and Outer width in mm and Outer depth in mm for the wall. Environment separates cabinets for schools and offices from those made for public spaces.

Fitting out several classrooms? Call us on +46 770 22 01 22 and we will quote for the whole building.