NFC on iOS

So, I read something about NFC being open on iOS. I actually discovered it when I paired a simple (Sony) photo camera to my iPhone 7+
So, if that Sony app can use the NFC chip. Others might as well… right?
Has anyone here have any experience with NFC on iOS?

[quote=375393:@Edwin van den Akker]So, I read something about NFC being open on iOS. I actually discovered it when I paired a simple (Sony) photo camera to my iPhone 7+
So, if that Sony app can use the NFC chip. Others might as well… right?
Has anyone here have any experience with NFC on iOS?[/quote]

I think it depends on what you want to do with the NFC chip. If using it to read other NFC tags, I believe they have to be in the NDEF format. If you want to use the device NFC chip as identification to another NFC reader (such as for security or identity credential – then last I knew iOS 11’s Core NFC will not expose that,

See also this article

Using Core NFC requires compiling against the iOS 11 framework. As a pre-release tester you can use the latest pre-release version that is compatible with this framework.

You will also need to add NFC permissions and NFC entitlement, more info here: https://github.com/hansemannn/iOS11-NFC-Example

Finally the most difficult part will be adding a class in Xojo to handle CoreNFC: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc
If you are used to writing declares and already have iOSKit from Jason King, it should be fairly easy to do.

I should add that I have not used Core NFC myself. The reason I investigated it was hoping to use it for identity credential purposes, and unlike Android, iOS does not programatically expose the NFC chip’s ID yet.

Does anyone have a working example project using this?