FlashFinder is the latest gadget we have come across to implement Apple’s Find My tech. We have seen Find My come pre-loaded into everything from wallet tracking cards to carabiner clips, wall chargers, and more. But this is the first time we have seen it come in the form of a miniature, keychain-ready flashlight. And we have now had a chance to test it out in hand – head below for our hands-on impressions.
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Hands-on with FlashFinder – a mini flashlight with Apple Find My
The new FlashFinder from Footnote Accessories Co. comes in one color/size and fetches $27.99 Prime shipped via the brand’s official Amazon storefront – it will drop to $25.19 with an on-page coupon on Amazon.
Features at a glance:
- Built-in Find My
- White, red, and blue lighting
- Various illumination modes
- USB-C charging
- Mounting to metal surfaces via built-in magnets
- 6-hour of continuous lighting per charge
- Miniature keychain-ready design
Electronicsforward’ Take:
A miniature keychain flashlight with Find My seems an intriguing proposition – just about anyone can make use of a mini flashlight on their keychain and the like at some point (providing it is small enough) and everything should have Find My if you ask me.
Not only does the FlashFinder provide a miniature illumination tool, just like it says on the box, but it also provides Apple’s item location tracking to anything you attach it to.
Now let’s talk build quality and form-factor. To put into some real-world perspective for you, it’s about half as long as a typical credit card and features a circumference about the size of a dime. Okay, check…it’s definitely small enough for me.
As for the actual construction materials here, you’ll find a hard plastic semi see-through body (it’s sort of a smokey transparent black treatment) with a metal piece around the the top of the unit where the light emanates from. All-in all, I might wish the entire thing was made of metal, but I do like the look of it here and it’s only $28 on Amazon.
On the back end there’s a loop to string a key ring through – it ships with a small keyring as well as a secondary one with a metal Footnote Accessories tag on it – and on the top you’ll find the power button. This is where you turn the unit on and flip through its various illumination modes:
A short press turns the unit on, another offers up a brighter illumination mode, another dims the light, and once more offers a strobing pattern – click it again and it turns off.
A long press engages the colored blue and red lighting that emanates from the top of the body of the device. Clicking through the main button in this mode delivers, red, strobing red, blue, strobing blue, and siren mode (strobing red and blue lighting).
It is also worth noting in this section that when engaging the audible alarm on the unit from the Find My app will also enable the strobing red and blue siren mode to offer up a visual aid in the dark or otherwise.
On the bottom you’ll find a small covered USB-C port for charging, and there are a pair of tiny magnets on the backside so you can stick it to metal surfaces – they don’t seem overly strong, but they do work and I can appreciate the bonus functionality here.
Now let’s talk Find My. Or rather let’s not as it all just works perfectly the first time. You short press the main button to turn the FlashFinder on, select it in the add device menu in the Find My app, name it, choose an emoji to represent it on the Find My app, and you’re set. Find My is now engaged on the FlashFinder just like it would be on any other third-party device.
It supports the aforementioned audio – it’s not particularly loud but it certainly helps, much like the siren lighting, and Left Behind notifications too.
All-in-all, this is solid little device that does exactly what it says on the box. It perhaps could have a more robust all-metal build and the speaker could be louder, but it otherwise checks all the boxes for me. And, again, considering it’s only $28 Prime shipped, I’d say it delivers some notable value here.
Not everyone is going to need or perhaps want a flashlight hanging off their keychain, but you can attach it to anything and if you do, this is a good one to consider without breaking the bank that also provides Apple location tracking at the same time.
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