Can an iPhone 7 or later using iOS 11+ act as an NFC tag?

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I understand that an iPhone 7 or later will be able to read certain NFC tags under certain conditions however will an iPhone also be able to act as an NFC tag or "display"/share any sort of unique NDEF data that can be read by other devices with NFC reading capabilities?

Not really had a hands-on with NFC though, but I believe for now we have only read capability and not write. So iPhone behaving as a tag or display data might not be possible. Not sure though — Sandeep Bhandari, Jul 07 '17 at 06:09

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 07 '17 at 06:31

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Not at this time. Using CoreNFC in iOS 11 an iPhone 7(+) can read NDEF data from NFC tags but not act as a tag.

answered Jul 07 '17 at 06:31

Paulw11

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Is there any way to share/display readable NDEF data without acting as a tag? – Jack Jul 07 '17 at 08:09
I guess you could encode equivalent data in something like a QR code – Paulw11 Jul 07 '17 at 08:11
Still seems true in iOS 12. Have you seen announcements suggesting otherwise? – Crashalot Oct 16 '18 at 23:03

Can an iPhone 7 or later using iOS 11+ act as an NFC tag?

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