How Apple iOS 13 Changes the Game for NFC — RFID Card ™
iOS 13: Game Changer for NFC Technology
The announcement of iOS 13 at the WWDC (Apple Worldwide Conference) held in June 2019 shifts NFC to the next phase. This next phase is a game-changer for NFC that has been controlling Apple apps and powering Apple Pay for a long time. In this conference, Apple unveiled a complete range of NFC’s access by exploiting the potential of NFC characteristics.
The ability of iOS applications to read NFC tags, write on NFC tags and practice native protocols for interacting with other NFC tags powers the NFC technology and ensures a vital evolution for NFC.
NFC and Apple Pay
Apple Pay is using NFC technology to ease payment transactions for Apple users. When a person carrying Apple’s iPhone or Apple watch arrives at a payment terminal, it reads data from his/her portable device through NFC technology and confirms transaction details for sale purposes.
The relationship between NFC and Apple Pay is increased after the WWDC conference as Apple plans to embed enhanced user experience in its devices through NFC technology.
Retailers and service providers get benefits from NFC stickers to activate Apple Pay payments; this makes it easy for customers to create accounts in their loyalty program. The efficiency of this method is different from other technologies as the whole procedure is performed without the installment of the application. This shows that customers trigger their Apple Pay card by just tapping an iPhone device in front of the NFC tag present in the payment card’s outer box.
Why iOS 13 is Important for NFC Technology?
Apple’s NFC capabilities are now more powerful due to the upgrade provided by iOS 13 in Apple’s Core NFC Framework. iOS 13 is important for NFC technology because all the Apple models ranging from iPhone 7 to iPhone 11 are mounted on iOS 13, and thus, they support NFC tags reading and writing functionalities across multiple protocols;
- NDEF or NFC Data Exchange Format is a standardized format required to exchange information between NFC devices or tags.
- MIFARE®, based on ISO 14443 standard, is a member of the NXP IC family and widely used in providing…
