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 ...

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 ...

The European Commission legally bound Apple to commitments on Thursday (11 July) addressing previous competition concerns over its refusal to grant rivals access to NFC technology for contactless ...

Earlier today, Apple announced another major new functionality coming to iOS 18.1: the ability for third-party apps to offer NFC transactions via the iPhone’s Secure Element: Starting with iOS 18.1, ...

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 ...

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 ...