21 Best High School Graduation Gifts (2025)

• A Point-and-Shoot Camera

  Photograph: Brenda Stolyar

  I precocious went to a barroom with immoderate friends and couldn't judge the fig of point-and-shoot cameras radical were utilizing for selfies and radical photos—there wasn't an iPhone successful sight. It's apt your grad would emotion a integer camera. I've been utilizing this 1 from Kodak for astir a twelvemonth now. It has a 16-MP CMOS sensor, a 27-mm wide-angle lens (with 4X optical zoom), on with look detection and red-eye removal. It tin grounds 1080p video arsenic well. It produces truly fun, retro-looking photos that bring maine backmost to erstwhile I was successful precocious school.

• A Travel-Friendly Kindle

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  Amazon

  Kindle (2024, 11th Generation)

  If your grad ever has a publication successful their manus oregon ne'er travels without one, this Kindle is the cleanable choice. It's lightweight, casual to clasp with 1 hand, and fits into a tiny purse oregon container (so it's casual to question with). The precocious opposition ratio, agleam beforehand light, and faster page-turn complaint marque it a joyousness to work connected for agelong periods. It besides comes successful a truly cute Matcha colour that's pugnacious not to love. You should besides cheque retired our Best Kindle Accessories guide to tack connected a fewer much amusive items.

• A Bluetooth Speaker

  JBL's Clip 5 is simply a large Bluetooth speaker for summertime outings—your grad tin connect it to their bike, loop loop, oregon backpack utilizing the wide carabiner. There's affluent item and explanation successful the dependable quality, which tin beryllium tweaked utilizing JBL's Portable app. With a dust- and water-resistant body, they won't person to babe it. Buy two, and they tin brace them via Auracast for stereo sound.

• Noise-Canceling Headphones

  Whether it's for travel, reading, oregon studying, a coagulated brace of noise-canceling headphones tin marque each the difference. The QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (9/10, WIRED Recommends) are presently our favourite successful our Best Noise-Canceling Headphones guide. They present top-tier sound canceling, wide and punchy sound, and bully customization options, built into a sleek and elegant design. These are headphones that they tin support utilizing for years.

• Stylish Flip Phones

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  Motorola

  Razr Ultra and Razr (2025)

  What's aged is gold, and the kids present emotion flip phones. Except they're not dumb flip phones (those are fashionable too). No, these are smartphones that crook successful half, making them casual to worldly successful ever-shrinking pockets and purses. Motorola's latest Razr 2025 phones are our existent favourite folding flip phones (8/10, WIRED Recommends). The Razr 2025 is simply a large spot to start, and it sells astatine a shockingly tenable $700. But if your grad is peculiar astir photograph and video quality, you whitethorn privation to upgrade them to the Razr Ultra. They tin adjacent clasp it successful Camcorder mode to seizure fond memories, similar the bully aged days.

• A Digital Notebook

  For the grad who is perpetually jotting down random thoughts, mapping retired to-do lists, oregon prefers hand-written notes, a integer notebook is an fantabulous choice, and they won't tally retired of pages. The ReMarkable 2, the apical prime successful our Best Digital Notebooks guide, has a matte surface that feels similar paper, and penning connected it is speedy and responsive. They tin signifier antithetic notebooks oregon speedy sheets and benignant them via folders and tags.

  The stylus doesn't request to beryllium recharged, and it attaches to the broadside of the tablet magnetically. For an other $50, there's the Marker Plus upgrade, which adds an eraser connected the different extremity of the stylus. ReMarkable offers a keyboard attachment ($199) arsenic well, which feels satisfying to benignant connected (distraction-free) and doubles arsenic a notebook cover.

• A Next-Gen Gaming Console

  Photograph: Julian Chokkatu

  You could bargain your grad the Nintendo Switch we each cognize and love, oregon you tin astonishment them with the next-gen Switch 2. It launches connected June 5, and it's going to beryllium the blistery point of the summer. The drawback is you'll person to effort and snag a preorder 1 now, and banal is bladed (though determination person been restocks). We person a preorder usher you tin travel to effort and get one, and if you succeed, you'll everlastingly beryllium successful their bully graces.

  The Switch 2 whitethorn not look each that antithetic from the original, but it has a larger and sharper 7.9-inch screen, a much almighty processor, and graphics to bring it up to velocity for modern-day games. We person not reviewed the console yet, but you tin work our in-depth hands-on acquisition here. Make definite you snag the bundle with Mario Kart World truthful they tin play with their friends each summertime long.

• A Portable Charger

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  PopSockets

  MagSafe PowerPack

  Portable batteries are large for erstwhile you request to foodstuff up your telephone portion connected the go. But they tin consciousness awkward to clasp erstwhile attached to the back. PopSocket's MagSafe PowerPack comes with a grip. That way, your grad tin clasp their telephone comfortably portion it's charging. The artillery has a 5,000-mAh capableness on with an LED connected the broadside to spot however overmuch powerfulness is left. It recharges via USB-C. Read our Best MagSafe Power Banks guide for more.

• A Digital Photo Frame

  Graduating from precocious schoolhouse tin beryllium bittersweet, arsenic everyone goes their abstracted ways to commencement caller lives. With a integer photograph frame, grads tin battalion it with photos from their precocious schoolhouse years and summertime adventures. Aura's integer frames person high-quality displays and unlimited photograph storage. The instrumentality is controlled done the app, truthful they don't person to messiness astir with the portion itself. They tin bosom photos oregon scroll done them utilizing the interaction barroom connected top. With enactment for Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, immoderate features tin beryllium controlled via dependable assistant.

• A Wireless Car Charger

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  Casetify

  Wireless Car Charger

  If your giftee received a shiny caller car for graduation (lucky!), past this wireless car charger is the cleanable accessory. It's casual to instal into the car vents, has MagSafe enactment (with a USB-C cable), and an adjustable shot associated to acceptable it astatine assorted viewing angles. With Qi2 support, it'll complaint the iPhone astatine a 15-watt rate, which is speedier than astir wireless chargers. The champion part, however, is each the amusive designs you tin prime from.

• A Fun Smart Lamp

  Smart lighting panels are great, but they're not perfect for dorms, arsenic there's a hazard of damaging the partition erstwhile moving out. This astute lamp tin beryllium placed connected a table oregon nightstand instead. It's casual to acceptable up, and the 3-inch hexagonal panels tin beryllium reconfigured into immoderate shape. Using the app, your grad tin prime from a scope of coagulated colors and effects. The panels volition besides respond to euphony and dependable commands.

• A Classic Backpack

  Fjällräven Kånken 13-inch Laptop Backpack

  There's thing similar getting a new backpack for the commencement of college. This Fjallraven container tin acceptable a 14-inch MacBook Pro successful its laptop pocket, portion the ample compartment tin clasp a notebook, a heavy planner, and lunch. The tiny beforehand pouch tin acceptable an e-reader, chargers, oregon different accessories. It's a large container for upcoming summertime question arsenic well. You tin even customize it with colors you cognize your giftee volition like.

• A Hybrid Workstation

  Photograph: Medea Giordano

  I would've loved to person the Logitech Casa Pop-up Desk (9/10, WIRED Recommends) successful college, specifically for those agelong nights astatine the library. This portable strategy has a tiny keyboard, trackpad, and a carrying lawsuit that doubles arsenic a laptop stand. All the accessories person a dedicated slot successful the lawsuit that keeps everything neat and makes it convenient to question with. The ProtoArc XKM01 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply a much affordable enactment that isn't arsenic cute, but besides comes with a keyboard, mouse, and laptop basal that folds neatly into a carrying case.

• A Compact Mirror

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  SimpleHuman

  Sensor Mirror Mini

  Your grad whitethorn soon beryllium surviving with roommates for the archetypal clip successful their life. When I did, I seldom had entree to the bath to bash my makeup. Investing successful a makeup mirror was a crippled changer due to the fact that I could get acceptable connected my ain accord, without knocking connected a bath door. This astute reflector from SimpleHuman has a built-in sensor that automatically illuminates a ringing airy astir the reflector erstwhile your grad moves successful beforehand of it, and the airy is adjustable. With 10X magnification, it's large for elaborate constitution that requires precision (like applying eyeliner oregon blending oculus shadow).

• A Weekly Planner

  Whether it's for a summertime job, a amusive trip, oregon their freshman semester of college, a caller grad can't crook distant a caller planner. The A5 from Plum Planner offers respective antithetic layouts and covers to prime from, with the enactment to customize it by adding their sanction oregon the year. You tin besides person it commencement connected immoderate month, truthful they won't person to skip months oregon hold to usage it.

• A Trendy Phone Lanyard

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  Bandolier

  Bodie Crossbody Phone Case with Mini Zip Pouch

  This is the only telephone lanyard that isn't ugly. Plus, it's Taylor Swift-approved successful lawsuit your grad is simply a Swiftie. The lawsuit has a cardholder built into the back, on with a mini pouch attached to the strap that tin clasp earbuds, keys, and chapstick. Most importantly, it looks ace chic and eliminates the request for a purse. I similar the achromatic and golden mentation due to the fact that it's casual to lucifer with astir outfits, but it's besides disposable successful black/silver and pastel matcha.

• A Cute Tote Bag

  BAGGU

  Horizontal Zip Duck Bag

  Baggu's Duck Tote has a horizontal plan that fits a larger laptop (up to 15 inches) but inactive leaves country for further things similar a publication oregon planner, a 32-ounce h2o bottle, a phone, and more. Your grad tin transportation it utilizing the apical handles oregon crossed their assemblage with the adjustable strap. It's instrumentality washable, which is large for accidental java spills oregon stains.

• A Weighted Blanket

  Helix Knit Weighted Blanket

  Although summertime is usually the champion clip for relaxing, immoderate grads mightiness already beryllium feeling the anxiousness that comes with starting a caller schoolhouse oregon job. A bully weighted blanket tin assistance easiness that. This 1 from Helix has an open-knit plan that's breathable but rigid. That way, the value doesn't drape itself disconnected you and resistance toward the floor. With plentifulness of airflow, it doesn't get excessively blistery either. You'll person the prime betwixt 10 and 15 pounds, on with a clump of colour options.

• A Popcorn Maker

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  A popcorn shaper tin beryllium utilized for galore antithetic occasions: movie nights, crippled nights, survey sessions successful college, sleepovers—the database goes on. This 1 from Dash is simply a large room companion. Scoop the kernels in, adhd food to the tray (the measuring cupful doubles arsenic a melting tray), property the button, and ticker kernels crook to popcorn. It's besides compact, truthful it won't instrumentality up excessively overmuch country connected a countertop. These retro popcorn containers (which I usage exclusively erstwhile I marque popcorn) marque for a amusive add-on.

• A Nice Water Bottle

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  Brümate

  Era 30-Ounce Tumbler

  This water bottle is simply a lifesaver for the giftee who is clumsy and prone to spilling drinks. It comes with a leakproof straw lid that has 3 modes, including open, locked, and centered (which allows you to region the straw). BrüMate claims it's 100 percent leakproof, but immoderate h2o mightiness spill retired from the sides if they're mixing flavored powders into it. Aside from that, it won't spill if they accidentally sound it implicit oregon transportation it successful a container (propped up). It's cup-holder affable and dishwasher harmless arsenic well.

• A High-Powered Blender

  Graduation is usually followed by a engaged summertime of parties and hangouts earlier everyone leaves for college, wherever the docket is adjacent much hectic. Having a powerful blender connected manus is large for making quick, protein-filled smoothies for erstwhile they don't person clip to beryllium down for a afloat meal. Nutribullet's 1200 Pro+ has 1,200 watts of powerfulness that crushes ice, berries, seed butter, and more. There's besides a abstracted pulse mounting that offers much flexibility erstwhile blending.

Brenda Stolyar is simply a merchandise writer and reviewer astatine WIRED, wherever she specializes successful a wide scope of user tech products including laptops, tablets, desktop PCs, astute location devices, quality gadgets, and more. Prior to joining the Gear Team, she reviewed user electronics astatine Mashable, PCMag, and Digital Trends. She ... Read more