First iPhone To Use NFC. Apple started using NFC inside its iPhones from 2014 onwards. The first iPhone to use NFC was the iPhone 6, which launched in 2014, however, while both the iPhone 6 and iPhone ...

Most people think NFC on the iPhone begins and ends with Apple Pay—but it’s capable of way more. With a little configuration and a few cheap NFC tags, you can unlock the full power of NFC and ...

But no NFC doesn't mean Apple has abandoned paying with your phone. In fact, the iPhone 5 could do more to make mobile payments commonplace than any other phone or app yet.

It looks like NFC technology could finally find itself a home, and a wider user base, in the iPhone. Prototype iPhone models that appear to support NFC suggest Apple's next iPhone will be NFC ...

The Independent‘s report contradicts a Bloomberg report from January that said Apple was building NFC into the iPad 2 and iPhone 5. However, with the iPad 2 already available (and no NFC ...

Each year, we hear rumors that Apple will finally add Near Field Communication (NFC) to the iPhone. As it turns out, 2014 isn't any different, because we're seeing a ton of indicators that the ...

I speak, of course, of the iPhone’s near-field communication (NFC) chip. Pay to play. The iPhone’s NFC support goes back almost a decade, to the iPhone 6 family.

Apple announced on Wednesday that it will open up the iPhone’s NFC chip to third-party apps, just as it did earlier this year for developers located in the European Union. The new API will be ...

With the iPhone, Apple has locked down the NFC chip’s payment features so that it can only be used with Apple Pay. Third-party apps can still use NFC for other features, just not for mobile ...

Now available in the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch, NFC is poised to play an important role in the way we use our phones, especially when it comes to mobile payments. Here's how it works.