- JLab JBuds Mini ANC earphones launch with Apple Find My support
- They are the “world’s smallest” ANC buds and come with a key ring
- They launch in August 2026 for $39.99
JLab makes some of the best budget earphones and is pretty much the only brand we recommend if you’re spending under $30. The brand recently announced that it is launching a new pair of its tiny ‘mini’ keychain wireless earbuds, this time with active noise cancellation.
But JLab has confirmed they’ll be even better than originally announced when they launch in August 2026 for just $39.99 (about £39 / AU$80), thanks to support for Apple’s Find My location technology, making them an even smarter option to attach to your keys.
I already had a chance to try the JLab JBuds Mini ANC and they are amazing good considering the price (and based on JLab’s history they will regularly fall below that) and that they really are small enough to be on your key ring (with a loop for just that purpose, even).
,I said in that piece that “I think everyone should have a set on their key chain” already, just based on how useful it is to always know you have good earbuds with you. Adding Find My support means that for Apple users, they work a bit like AirTag as well as earphones, helping you find misplaced keys from the Find My app built into iPhone, iPad, Mac and other devices.
Like an AirTag, lost for the very last time
Like an AirTag – or like AirPods, which also have Find My built in – JBuds Mini ANC maintains a very low-energy connection to your phone, even when it’s not in use. If you leave them somewhere and disconnect, your phone will record its GPS location when it was last connected to them, so you can retrace your steps.
Even more than that, Find My items can also connect to any Apple device owned by anyone and report their location back to your phone remotely, so if you lose them and someone walks into wireless range, you’ll know roughly where your JBuds Mini ANC (and by extension, your keys) are.
And if you know you’re close to them but can’t see them, you can use the Find My app to tell the earbuds to make noise so you can hopefully tweak them.
The main thing missing here compared to an AirTag or AirPods Pro 3 is that there’s no UWB precision tracking – this is technology that allows your iPhone to literally point an arrow at these devices if you’re close enough.
I haven’t had a chance to try this out yet – the feature wasn’t enabled on the early sample of JBuds Mini ANC I got to test, and it’s still being certified by Apple – but these will be one of the first sets of non-Apple earbuds to include Find My support, and these inexpensive keychain-friendly earbuds seem like the perfect early showcase.
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