Is there NFC SDK for iOS?

I have been trying to google around a lot for this, but unable to find anything. Is there any plan for Apple to open up SDK for NFC and allow developers to use NFC tags?

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Apple tends to not discuss future plans, etc. Feel free to file a feature request via bug reporter and good luck.

Did you ever find a solution on NFC tags? I have a similar need but as far as I can figure there is no way to read an NFC tag from an iPhone? Is there another low cost tag solution?

Did you ever find a solution on NFC tags?

I can’t speak for vverma93 but, speaking from an Apple perspective:

  • There is no NFC API in the iOS SDK

  • Apple folks can’t comment about The Future™

There may be interesting third-party options out there but it’s not something I’ve looked into myself so I don’t have any pointers for you )-:

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For anybody following this:


There now exists Core NFC for iOS 11.

See documentation at:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc

I tried it but getting always "Error Domain=NFCError Code=202 "Session is invalidated unexpectedly".

Anyone with a working sample?

I tried the new CoreNFC lib it but getting always "Error Domain=NFCError Code=202 "Session is invalidated unexpectedly".

Anyone with a working sample?

hi ... I am not getting scanning screen popup on my iPhone 7. I did all the prerequisites such as plist, entitlements, enable NFC in appID in dev account, etc.. but not sure where I am going wrong. Whereas I see sometimes Apple Demo App works well. Any clue, please let me know.