# jLight - Flashlight for iPhone — user reviews

> 100 indexed App Store user reviews of jLight by bio0611, rated 4.20/5 from 1,809 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jlight-flashlight-for-iphone/id490656360/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jlight-flashlight-for-iphone/id490656360.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,157 · 4★ 286 · 3★ 88 · 2★ 105 · 1★ 173

## What do users think of jLight?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Bright and effective flashlight
- 🌙 Useful red light mode for night vision
- 🚀 Quick and easy to use
- 💡 Versatile for various lighting needs
- 🌟 Dependable and reliable

**Cons**

- 🐛 Inconsistent behavior, sometimes fails to turn on
- 🔋 Light turns off automatically too quickly
- 🤔 Confusing or counterintuitive controls
- 📱 Drains battery faster than expected
- 🔒 Concerns about clipboard data harvesting

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Light turns on unexpectedly or on its own
- Compatibility issues on larger screen devices
- Crashes or freezes when opening the app

**Most requested features**

- Add a lock or stay-on feature for the light
- Improve red light mode with more brightness control
- Provide better instructions or a user guide
- Optimize battery usage and prevent automatic shutoff

## Newest reviews (12 of 100)

### 2/5 — Flashlight App

*2026-06-13, version 2.8.1*

A very useful app BUT it frequently turns on spontaneously and drains the battery.

### 4/5 — Great light

*2026-03-28, version 2.8.1*

Great app …. Easy. Needs widgets

### 2/5 — Light comes on haphazardly

*2026-02-03, version 2.8.1*

Finding the jLight will come on w/o me touching it.

### 2/5 — This is what happens when you vibecode an app

*2025-12-12, version 2.8.1*

Whatever entity codes this app is not a human being who has ever shared a bedroom with another living human being.

For the live humans on here, this is how to use the jLight app.

Step 1: Set jLight to red so as not to disturb your spouse. Aim the screen toward yourself to minimize light disturbance. Smile silently.
Step 2: Use jLight the following night, and fumble as  it defaults to the white flashlight that shines directly at your sleeping companion and shocks her awake. Apologize profusely.
Step 3: Repeat steps 1 and/or 2 a few times, in random order.
Step 4: Sleep on the couch.
Step 5: Repeat steps 1-4 once.
Step 6: delete jLight and write a  review.

### 3/5 — Simple but works!!!

*2023-11-01, version 2.8.1*

It does what it’s supposed to do!   It just works!

### 4/5 — Home Screen blues

*2022-09-04, version 2.8.1*

Don’t like it on the Home Screen

### 4/5 — mc donous

*2022-08-19, version 2.8.1*

gooooooood

### 5/5 — Night Vision!

*2022-03-27, version 2.8.1*

I use this app every night for the red light screen so I can have night vision without turning on the lights. It’s wonderful!

### 5/5 — Better than the iOS version

*2021-10-31, version 2.8.1*

This has been my ‘Go To’ flashlight app since I got my iPhone 4. Now many years later, it remains better than the ‘standard’ iPhone 12 flashlight.

### 2/5 — Could be better

*2021-09-28, version 2.8.1*

Flashlight work good but I can’t keep the flashlight on  and go to another  screen.  It could be operator error. But doubt it. Lol.

### 5/5 — 坐;.;,千旷邸w厂!今⋯;，.….：帅…八舔熨1

*2021-09-11, version 2.8.1*

1瞬。这.……；是，、;小丷户杰

### 2/5 — Old app

*2021-06-26, version 2.8.1*

Why did you take away the old options?

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Flashlight

*2023-02-20, version 2.8.1*

I hate that the flashlight is turned on every time I try to open the app. It should let me turn it on not turned on automatically as I enter the app.

### 1/5 — App tries to harvest clipboard data

*2023-01-29, version 2.8.1*

Thank goodness for iOS protections.  This app tried to harvest my clipboard data.

### 1/5 — Was good

*2022-12-14, version 2.8.1*

I’ve had this app for a few years, it used to be very good. Now once a week it fails, starts up and crashes to the Home Screen. 
To use it I have to delete it completely and then reinstall it. Then it works for a few days before crashing and becoming useless again.

### 1/5 — Terrible and counterintuitive

*2022-11-06, version 2.8.1*

This app makes zero sense - it automatically opens with the light on the brightest possible setting, not discreet at all.  I was looking for a red light flashlight app I could use when I went into my kiddos’ rooms at night without waking them, and this is definitely not it. It also turns up the screen brightness on the phone to the fullest setting automatically, so every time I open the app I have to then remember to turn that down or it drains the battery faster, too. Tried the user manual but can’t decipher it since it’s a series of line drawings worse than an IKEA manual. Deleting, I’ll take my chances in the dark rather than open this app again.

### 1/5 — Just started turning on by itself

*2022-01-17, version 2.8.1*

Has been working great for over six months. I do astrophotography and use the red screen light during every session. Just recently, I noticed that the white front light comes on when the app is not even open. Three occasions in last week. I have to open the app to shut off the light.

### 1/5 — C

*2021-11-26, version 2.8.1*

call him cwhen

### 1/5 — Not for iPad

*2021-11-25, version 2.8.1*

This is not for an iPad. On the iPad you get a red rectangle that fills  the screen with a red square the size of a iPhone 4 ( less than 1/4 of the screen). The rest is all black with ads near the bottom 3rd of the screen.  Kinda silly looking if you ask me

### 1/5 — You Need have job somewhere else!

*2021-07-14, version 2.8.1*

Need to put back my phones brightness pushed the button at bottom and have no light went to dark mode on whole phone . Will notify the Apple company about your steeling phones brightness?

### 1/5 — Steals clipboard contents

*2021-01-19, version 2.8.1*

Alert, this app steals the contents of your clipboard every time you open it. There is no legitimate reason for it to access the clipboard.

### 1/5 — Flashlight that won’t stay on long enough to use!

*2020-10-14, version 2.8.1*

The light is bright and I thought would be perfect, but, the light goes off in seconds. You go to the user guide, it comes on sometimes, doesn’t others, and even if it does come on, the light is again gone in seconds. Useless!!!!

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — great app

*2026-07-24, version 2.8.1*

convenient, can close the app and reopen and its still red light so I can view my tarantulas thanks.

### 5/5 — Flashlight

*2025-04-27, version 2.8.1*

Works great!

### 5/5 — Shedding Amazing Light

*2025-04-09, version 2.8.1*

Excellent - Wonderful!!  I’m so amazed to finally and truly experience newer and brighter joy when I enter darkness and/or an empty room.    Who thought that this wonderful light could be displayed with such a small device!!
Thank you in kind 🙏!!!

### 5/5 — Its amazing

*2024-05-28, version 2.8.1*

It works perfectly and the setting r amazing

### 5/5 — Perfect

*2023-12-02, version 2.8.1*

Good red light. I use this to feed my babies at night so I do not wake them up.

### 5/5 — Only light needed

*2023-11-15, version 2.8.1*

I’ve had this app for years and have never needed anything else. I never have to worry about having enough light to see anywhere I need it. From reading to finding my shoes in the dark I know it’s always with me. 4 stars all the way..

### 5/5 — Red light great for night

*2023-08-31, version 2.8.1*

Tip for users: can thumb tack the red light so it doesn’t flip. Red light is perfect for sky gazing, or when entering a dark room where your partner is sleeping. I use this app often. Thank you.

### 5/5 — Great

*2023-02-11, version 2.8.1*

No frills gets the job done.

### 5/5 — Brilliant.0

*2023-01-16, version 2.8.1*

Brilliant in more ways than one, I shall use it for lighting my flower photography in the spring as well as using in the dark now.
Many thanks for it, Wendy Smith

### 5/5 — It works

*2022-04-08, version 2.8.1*

I downloaded a couple of apps until I found this. It works.

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