Apple’s mobile payment service is coming to Hong Kong’s popular Octopus contactless transit cards. Launching this fall, the system will let people tap their device on an NFC processor and be on their way, no need to authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID whatsoever.
With the release of iOS 13 later this year, German citizens will be able to use their smartphone not only as their passport, but also as their identification card.
Soon your iPhone will be able to read specially-encoded NFC tags that will instantly start an Apple Pay transaction when tapped, without having to download or use any special app.
NFCWriter X for iOS lets you tinker with your iPhone’s embedded NFC chip in ways you could only dream of.
The new iPhones feature updated hardware for NFC which supports background tag reading. This permits the new phones to scan for and reads NFC tags without requiring users to launch an app for that beforehand.
A newly published Apple patent application suggests iPhone could one day replace our identification documents such as passports.
Apple seems to have paired NFC technology with the Face ID or Touch ID to authenticate attendees’ digital WWDC 2018 passes in the Wallet app, marking the first time the Wallet pass has used NFC technology for access control.
Apple is said to be “making a significant change” to NFC, or near-field communication in iOS 12. In doing so, the wireless protocol, first introduced with the iPhone 6, could move beyond Apple Pay payments.
GymKit is available at Life Time Athletic at Sky and will be coming to Equinox in 2018.
Elias Limneos’ NFCWriter jailbreak tweak is now officially available, opening up the NFC capabilities of jailbroken iPhones to be used with compatible accessories.
Jailbreak developer Elias Limneos shows off a fancy proof-of-concept where he hacks his iPhone’s NFC to communicate with tags and other devices.
Multiple filings for an unannounced wireless device with the model number A1844 which Apple recently made with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have caused quite a commotion, more so in light of Bloomberg’s claims that an Amazon Echo-like appliance powered by Siri was in prototype testing. The mysterious device has turned out to be nothing more than a wireless door access system.
As per Business Insider, the device was likely designed for the new Apple Park headquarters opening to employees in April.
