The magnetic dipole moments of the spin-3 2 doubly charmed, bottom and charmed-bottom baryons are obtained by means of the light-cone QCD sum rule. The magnetic dipole moments of these baryons encode important information of their internal structure and shape deformations. The numerical results are given as, µ Ξ * ++ cc = 2.94 ± 0.95, µ Ξ * + cc = −0.67 ± 0.11, µ Ω * + cc = −0.52 ± 0.07, µ Ξ * 0 bb = 2.30 ± 0.55, µ Ξ * − bb = −1.39 ± 0.32, µ Ω * − bb = −1.56 ± 0.33, µ Ξ * + bc = 2.12 ± 0.68, µ Ξ * 0 bc = −0.96 ± 0.32 and µ Ω * + bc= −1.11 ± 0.33, respectively. A comparison of our results on the magnetic dipole moments of the spin-3 2 doubly heavy baryons with the predictions of different approaches is presented. The consistency of the predictions with some (but not all) theoretical predictions is good.