CoreNFC in iOS13 for iPad Pro (and WatchOS 6)?

I'm running iOS 13 beta 6 on a newly purchased iPad Pro 11". This device appears to have the same NFC chipset as the iPhone XS. I downloaded the NFC Tag-Reader example (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc/building_an_nfc_tag-reader_app) to test the NDEF reading capability. The app built but when I went to deploy I got this error message:


Unable to install “NFCTagReader”

Domain: com.apple.platform.iphoneos

Code: -1

Recovery Suggestion: “NFCTagReader” requires the “nfc” capability which is not supported by iPadPro


Not sure if this is an oversight or something that will be changed in the future. Obviously the hardware is there. Can we not use iPad Pros for NFC support? I have a client project where they'd like to use tablets at workstations to read NFC tags.


Also would like to use CoreNFC on WatchOS 6 on a series 4 watch. Haven't gotten there yet, but would be good to know the level of support there.


-Thanks

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nNo NFC support on iPad or watchOS.