Apple is finally loosening its iron grip on the NFC chip in iPhones with the rollout of iOS 18.1. Earlier this year, the EU took issue with the way that Apple was preventing other companies from ...

Apple (AAPL) is opening its Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to third-party developers, allowing them to build ...

The CBA boss said the government should consider hitting tech companies with a bank-style levy to even the competitive ...

In Western markets, NFC has been a staple feature on smartphones for several years at this point. The Google Nexus S was the first Android device to include it all the way back in 2010.

Apple is about to make Physical Web access easier for iPhone users. Starting with iOS 11, iPhones are expected to be able to activate Near Field Communication (NFC) tags and launch QR codes to ...

Here’s a roundup of all the non-Apple Intelligence features coming to iPhone users with iOS 18.1 later this month. iOS 18.1 is making a big change to the iPhone’s NFC chip. For the first time ...

Back in 2020, Apple introduced support for car key, an implementation of the Digital Key standard that uses NFC. The feature is designed to allow iPhone and Apple Watch users to store a key for a ...

Other features are mostly similar, including water resistance, NFC for Apple Pay, fingerprint reader, Siri voice assistant, and front camera.

Unlike some popular tracking devices like Apple Air Pods, the devices can only be read by an NFC-enabled smartphone within less than four centimeters. That passive functionality provides several ...