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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will support NFC tags with iOS 11

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Peter 07 June 2017

Apple iOS

Surprise! Apple now supports reading NFC tags - a developer page for Core NFC notes that the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus can read tags (bog standard tags and you can buy for a dime). However, there’s no mention of writing to tags and more importantly, no device-to-device communication.

The NFC functionality is going to be open to third-party apps, once the phone is updated to iOS 11 (to be launched in the fall). Here’s an example use case that the dev page mentions:

For example, your app might give users information about products they find in a store or exhibits they visit in a museum.

Will Apple support make the humble NFC tag “cool”? Will the Apple Watch support it? (well, it supports Pay, which is NFC based so...) And will AirDrop gain Android Beam-like functionality, allowing you to share files and more by tapping devices together? (something Apple has mocked in the past)

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  • AnonD-632062
  • 3Y1
  • 08 Jun 2017

I like the Apple's new trend of opening up. Hopefully the 3.5 mm headphone jack will be back soon!

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  • AnonD-675598
  • 3mQ
  • 08 Jun 2017

I wish i got aplle always for free. It would be great

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  • v3B
  • 08 Jun 2017

The only condition when an fandroid user is not totally brainless is when they actually returned their samsung note 7.. If you have parted with your money for the Note 7 whether you paid the full price or yearly subscription & still holding on to...

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