YC-backed Tagstand, a company intent on helping make NFC more of a mainstream technology, is rebooting its Android app, NFC Task Launcher with a whole new feature set and user interface. The app was ...

There are a number of ways to control your smart home without sifting through apps on your smartphone or tablet. The above methods, however, are rather expensive ways to cut down on the number of ...

As part of major changes being made to the app ecosystem in the EU in iOS 17.4, Apple is allowing apps to access and use the iPhone's NFC chip. Going forward, NFC payments will be available directly ...

I replaced my iPhone 8 with an iPhone SE (2022) earlier this week. One of the new features that I now have access to is "background NFC reading". This means that whenever the screen is on (barring ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — A previous What the Tech showed you how NFC tags can help with so many aspects of your lives just by scanning them with your smartphone. But how do you set them up ...

iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max and iPhone XR include a new feature for NFC that Apple didn’t mention on stage. The new models will be able to scan NFC tags in the background. With current iPhones, users ...

The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) antitrust legislation compelled Apple to grant developers greater access to the iPhone’s NFC reader, and this change was implemented earlier this year ...