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I’m developing an iOS application using CoreNFC and working with ISO7816 tags. My use case involves exchanging APDU commands with a hardware device, but some operations can take more than 20 seconds. From my testing, I see that: The NFC reader session itself lasts about 60 seconds. But once a tag is connected, the connection seems to drop after ~20 seconds, and I receive a “connection lost” / session invalidated error. My questions are: Is this ~20-second connection window a hard limit enforced by iOS? Is there any way to extend this timeout for long-running APDU operations? If not, what’s the recommended design pattern for handling these scenarios? For example, should I split the process into smaller APDU commands and prompt the user to re-tap when the session times out? Any guidance or best practices for handling long NFC exchanges on iOS would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, I'm experiencing a critical issue with PassKit's shareable pass functionality. Despite having the necessary entitlements configured, I'm getting an entitlement error when calling PKAddShareablePassConfiguration.forPassMetaData. Failed to create PKAddShareablePassConfiguration: Error Domain=PKPassKitErrorDomain Code=4 client is not entitled UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=client is not entitled} private func createPassViewController(from response: PreparePushProvisioningResponse) { guard let passMetadata = PKShareablePassMetadata( provisioningCredentialIdentifier: response.provisioningCredentialIdentifier, cardConfigurationIdentifier: response.cardConfigurationIdentifier, sharingInstanceIdentifier: response.sharingInstanceIdentifier, passThumbnailImage: response.passThumbnailImage, ownerDisplayName: response.ownerDisplayName, localizedDescription: response.localizedDescription ) else { print(Failed to create PKShareablePassMetadata) return } print(PKShareablePassMetadata created successfully) // This is wh

Hello, I have an app that emulates an NFC card using NFC HCE. Since yesterday I saw an increasing number of crashes on iOS 26 only, which wasn't there before. From what I can see, it seems the app crashes when the NFC presentment intent is shown and 60 seconds passed and user does nothing. The app just crashes after 60 seconds. On previous iOS versions, I know that CardSession.Error.maxSessionDurationReached was thrown after 60 seconds. Is something changed in iOS 26?

I developed an app that uses the Core NFC framework to read tags. The feature works correctly on iOS 18 and earlier versions, but after upgrading to iOS 26, it stopped working. Details: Entitlement Near Field Communication Tag Reader Session Formats D2760000850101 D2760000850101 Info.Plist com.apple.developer.nfc.readersession.iso7816.select-identifiers D2760000850101 com.apple.developer.nfc.readersession.felica.systemcodes 12FC Privacy - NFC Scan Usage Description Signing and Capabilities: Near Field Communicating Tag Reading [Eanbled] My Sample Code Is: class NFCManager: NSObject, NFCTagReaderSessionDelegate { private var nfcSession: NFCTagReaderSession? let isConnectionNeeded = false func startNFCSession() { guard NFCTagReaderSession.readingAvailable else { // NFC is not available on this device. return } nfcSession = NFCTagReaderSession(pollingOption: [.iso14443, .iso15693, .iso18092], delegate: self) nfcSession?.begin() } func stopNFCSession() { nfcSession?.invalidate() } // MA

I have some logic which requires NFC support on the device. This is what I'm using to make sure that it's available: isNFCMissing = !NFCNDEFReaderSession.readingAvailable && !NFCTagReaderSession.readingAvailable && !NFCVASReaderSession.readingAvailable Is it possible for isNFCMissing to be true even if the device has an NFC chip. The minimum iOS version for the application is 16 which is only supported on devices with an NFC chip to begin with.

Hi, This is my first time developing for iPhone, and I believe I have encountered an unusual edge case related to user management. Background: I work at a very small company currently in the proof-of-concept stage of building an iOS app. We created an Apple account under the company name: Green Vibe, using our corporate email. Initially, I developed the app under the free account on my local iPhone, and everything worked smoothly. When NFC functionality became necessary, we upgraded to a paid Apple Developer account. At that point, I enrolled as a developer under my personal name (Or Itach) while logged in with the Green Vibe Apple account. I want to emphasize that only one Apple account was created — the Green Vibe account. The Issue: When attempting to add NFC, I was able to create the required certificate under the name Or Itach. However, when compiling the project, Xcode prompts me to enter the login password for the user Or Itach. This is problematic because there is no Apple ID associa

Existing smartphones store multiple NFC card information. When the NFC antenna of the phone is close to the card reader, it is usually necessary to open the APP to select NFC card information or default to one card information to be transmitted to the card reader. It is not possible to quickly select or switch cards among multiple cards. For example, after using the NFC function to swipe the subway card, the phone needs to open the car access control and community access control again. It is necessary to open the mobile NFC card information management APP to select the community access control card and then swipe the mobile NFC access control, which causes inconvenience. （现有的智能手机存储多个 NFC 卡信息。当手机的NFC天线靠近读卡器时，通常需要打开APP选择NFC卡信息或默认一个卡信息传输到读卡器。无法在多张卡之间快速选择或切换卡。例如，使用NFC功能刷完地铁卡后，手机需要重新打开车内门禁和小区门禁。需要打开手机NFC卡信息管理APP选择社区门禁卡，然后刷手机NFC门禁，造成不便。） Divide the smartphone screen into multiple areas, and users can freely d

Hello, We are currently developing an application that uses the Host-based Card Emulation (HCE) entitlement to enable corporate access functionality. With this entitlement, we have successfully established HCE communication and can interact with our access control systems to unlock doors. Our question is related to improving the user experience: We would like this access functionality to work without requiring the app to be in the foreground, as this adds friction for users during entry. Specifically, we would like to know: Is it possible for our app to coexist with Apple Wallet as the default contactless app, so that: Our app handles NFC interactions for corporate access (e.g., opening doors). Apple Wallet remains the default for payments. If that coexistence is not possible, and our app is set as the default contactless app, Will the system still need to launch our app into the foreground to complete a transaction (e.g., to emulate the NFC card)? Or is there a way to trigger HCE responses

Hi, I have created an application for NFC tag scanning and read the tag data. For that, i enabled the capability: NearField Communication Tag reading. Then I added 2 tag formats in the entitlement then i added info.plist: NFCReaderUsageDescription We need to use NFC com.apple.developer.nfc.readersession.felica.systemcodes 8005 8008 0003 fe00 90b7 927a 12FC 86a7 com.apple.developer.nfc.readersession.iso7816.select-identifiers D2760000850100 D2760000850101 but even though when i run the app and tap the nfc card im getting some error: NFCTag didBecomeActive 2025-08-29 19:08:12.272278+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113090] NFCTag didDetectTags 2025-08-29 19:08:12.282869+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113520] [CoreNFC] -[NFCTagReaderSession _connectTag:error:]:730 Error Domain=NFCError Code=2 Missing required entitlement UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Missing required entitlement} 2025-08-29 19:08:12.284044+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113090] NFCTag restarting polling 2025-08-29 19:08:12.372116+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:

Description: While testing Core NFC functionality on iOS 26 beta, when the NFC switch is turned off, the system automatically displays an alert. The alert contains two buttons: “Cancel” and “Settings”. Expected Behavior: When the user taps the “Settings” button, the system should navigate to the system settings page where the NFC switch can be turned on. Actual Behavior: The alert appears as expected Tapping the “Settings” button does not navigate to the system settings page No callback is triggered in the app’s NFC session Steps to Reproduce: Turn off the NFC switch on an iOS 26 beta device Trigger Core NFC functionality (e.g., NFCNDEFReaderSession or NFCTagReaderSession) The system alert appears indicating NFC is turned off Tap the “Settings” button Impact: Users cannot directly navigate to enable NFC from the system alert, making NFC features in the app unusable and negatively affecting user experience. Device Information: iOS