  We discuss the phenomenon of (inverse) magnetic catalysis for both the
deconfinement and chiral transition. We discriminate between the hard and soft
wall model, which we suitably generalize to include a magnetic field. Our
findings show a critical deconfinement temperature going down, in contrast with
the chiral restoration temperature growing with increasing magnetic field. This
is at odds with contemporary lattice data, so the quest for a holographic QCD
model capable of capturing inverse magnetic catalysis in the chiral sector
remains open.
