Review: FInd your lost wallet with your iPhone using SwitchBot Wallet Finder Card
Review: FInd your lost wallet with your iPhone using SwitchBot Wallet Finder Card
Publish Date: 2026-05-21 18:02:00
Source Domain: 9to5mac.com
Update: The Switchbot Wallet Finder card is currently on sale for just $12.99.
I have an AirTag on my keychain to keep track of my keys, but obviously an AirTag is too big and bulky to fit inside a wallet. That’s what the SwitchBot Wallet Finder is for.
Disguised inside a thin, credit-card form factor, the SwitchBot Wallet Finder connects to the Find My app on your iPhone, so you can follow its location, and it even houses a speaker so you can make it beep to help you find your wallet when it inevitably gets lost somewhere in your home. Read on for my review …
Setup
Setup is super simple. Although it ostensibly supports its own app and Android, I have used it solely through the Apple Find My app built into the phone. I didn’t even download the SwitchBot app at all. To set up, you open Find My, tap Add Item, and press and hold the button on the Wallet Finder card for a couple of seconds.
You then choose a name and emoji icon to identify it later. By default, it suggested ‘Benjamin’s Keys’, but I renamed it to ‘Benjamin’s Wallet’, selected one of the wallet-adjacent available emojis, and pressed Continue and I was done. Then, it just slips into one of the empty card pockets in my wallet.
How it tracks location
As a reminder, Find My accessories do not have GPS. Instead, they broadcast a low-energy Bluetooth signal that nearby Apple devices — like iPhones, iPads and Macs — pick up on. The location is then transmitted securely and privately to the Find My network, so you can hopefully locate and retrieve your lost item.
Even if you are miles away, as long as someone with an Apple device is nearby, the wallet will be locatable on the map in the Find My app. There’s also no ongoing subscription or other costs to worry about (unlike some competitors).
As demonstrated by the success of AirTags, the Find My network works really well and the SwitchBot Wallet Finder is just as effective. If your…
