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You will need an iPhone 5 or later to work with the Apple Watch. Preferably the 5s or latersince the 5 does not have NFC nor touch ID. As for the Macbook, you will need plenty ofstorage, 128 gigs in many of the low end models just isn't enough so you'll need an externaldrive of much higher capacity if you buy a Macbook with a small SSD. RAM should be 8 gigsMINIMUM. Anything less will simply drag with current OSX versions and you have to haveYosemite at minimum to work with the Watch. The SDK well, xCode 6 is the lowest versionthat supports the Apple Watch so, again, you'll need beefy hardware to use it.As for books, forget em. They are out of date 2 months before they are printed. Apple providesa lot of documentation, both for Swift and Objective-C and even has the full Swift programmingmanual as a free download in iTunes/iBooks. Google is also a good resource for finding tutorialsand various guides just keep in mind, a lot of stuff on the internet is also out of date very quickly.

The iPhone has a proximaty sensor, the NFC chip does not. NFC in the iPhoneis passive, not active. The actual chip is an NXP66V10 but there is very little publicinformation available.

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I'm sorry Apple hasn't opened up the NFC chip on the iPhone.

It's my understanding, and I'd really love someone familiar with the specifics to confirm or deny this, that the NFC hardware in iPhones is a passive technology, and won't be compatable with things like NFC tags. This would make an NFC API moot.

Hi ,Same quesiton for me. Is NFC API available in iOS 10 ?I would like to use NFC Iphone6 Chip to read/write any Tags ...Thx for info

Have you found a solution to your problem? It might be an error with the NFC certificate? the fact that the Automatically Select dialog is shown could tell otherwise tho.