Read Debit/Credit Card data using NFC

It is not possible to interact with payment related cards using the base CoreNFC APIs.

Currently there are two special programs that will allow apps to interact with payment cards/readers. You can read about the capabilities and requirements for these use cases in the following documents:

NFC & SE Platform for secure contactless transactions

HCE-based contactless transactions for apps in the European Economic Area (EEA)

Both these programs have strict geographic and eligibility requirements, which you can find out at the above links. If you are not eligible at this time, no other use cases are supported.

Argun Tekant /  DTS Engineer / Core Technologies

It's possible in both program? In HCE-based contactless transaction for apps (EEA), how to send APDU command to debit/credit card not terminal. In documenation https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc/cardsession/ I only see reading APDU, not send like in example: case .received(let cardAPDU):

            do {
                /// Call handler to process received input and produce a response.
                let responseAPDU = ProcessAPDU(cardAPDU.payload)
                try await cardAPDU.respond(response: responseAPDU)
         

Can we use "Core NFC" API to read only the card number from the credit cards. The intention here is to read the card number and show in custom wallet app built using the "NFC SE Platform" for provisioning, instead of customer manually entering the card in wallet which is error prone.