Follow the steps in this comprehensive tutorial to learn how you can set up and enable Express Transit mode on your iPhone and Apple Watch in order to pay for transit rides with Apple Pay without having to use Face ID, Touch ID or passcode verification at all.
Germany has passed a law that will make Apple, and other companies, open access to the NFC chip in their mobile devices so third-party “rivals” can utilize it.
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.
