Nomad’s New iPhone Wallet Has Find My And MagSafe Built In
If you don’t know it, Nomad is a Californian accessory maker that makes cases, stands, chargers and more. Horween leather is a specialty of the brand. It’s just released its latest iPhone accessory: a wallet that snaps on to the back of any MagSafe-compatible iPhone and has Find My built in.
Nomad Leather Mag Wallet
The case can hold up to four credit cards with a cut-out at the base so you can slide them out. It is made of the company’s favored vegetable-tanned Horween leather and comes in two colors, black and brown. Both will gain individual patinas over time.
The fact that it snaps to the back of the iPhone means you’ll know where it is, but when you remove it, to recharge the iPhone on a MagSafe charger, for instance, you needn’t worry about it going astray.
It has Find My built in, so it’s almost like having an AirTag in your wallet, only much flatter, obviously. It doesn’t have the precision finding of Apple’s own AirTag, but you can locate it in the Find My app.
Nomad Leather Mag Wallet
As you may know, this works so that once the wallet is put into Lost mode, it sends out a silent signal to any passing Apple device, which quietly lets you know where the wallet has been seen.
It can also play a sound, so you can confirm it really did slip down the back of the couch, and additionally you can set the wallet to send you a notification when it’s been left behind.
The wallet has a battery inside it but Nomad has not only chosen a rechargeable battery, but one that can be charged just like the iPhone, from a MagSafe or Qi wireless charger. Nomad says the battery lasts around five months between charges.
It will connect to the back of the iPhone using MagSafe, or through a MagSafe-capable case (one of those on the iPhone 16e will give compatibility here as the 16e doesn’t have MagSafe built-in). Nomad would point out that it teams perfectly with one of its own Horween leather cases, though any suitable case will work.
Note that Nomad’s products often sell very fast: although it’s only been on sale for a matter of hours, brown is already sold out, though it will doubtless return. The Leather Mag Wallet costs $79 from nomadgoods.com.