NFC Tags won't read after iOS 15.4 update

I think I experienced the same. After updating to 15.4 I cannot read my nfc card. Anyone have solutions on this?

the same for me. don't work with nfc readers apps. If you try to use with the quick commands app and select NFC tag for action it read regular the tag and make the action. please help me because i use it for work.

Same issue. Can’t read any NFC enabled document anymore. Weird how can you break a functionality like this and not notice it at all.

Still no luck after updating to 15.5 beta cmon Apple

I have the same problem. iPhone 13 mini. NFC is completely dead. Apple Pay on web is working fine. On physical terminals the phone does not recognise card reader nor is able to recognise any NFC tag. What is worse - we have tried another 3 iPhones with the same IOS version and everything is fine so not sure what is the pattern here. I was communicating this to apple support and they run diagnostic - no problem found. No workaround like resets are working.

The same thing happened to me when I updated to 15.4.1. I am so frustrated. I have an iPhone SE 2020 and it's not even two years old yet. I use my phone to scan a continuous glucose sensor. It worked absolutely fine all day until I did the update. Immediately after I did the update NFC no longer worked. I did trouble shooting over the phone. Then went into a store. At the store the rep assured me that my phone was absolutely great and nothing was wrong with it -- despite the fact that it no longer read my CGM. In the process I tried two different expensive sensors to isolate if the issue was the sensor or the phone. Two sensors didn't work. I then used my son's phone to scan the sensor and it did work. Mind you, these sensors are $70 each and due to this issue I had to waste two of them. Since then I've had to carry two phones with me, mine and my son's old crusty iPhone 7 just so I can monitor my medical device.

After I went to the Apple store and was told my phone was fine, I went to the grocery store a couple of days later and attempted to use Apple Pay. It didn't work.

I returned to the Apple store and by the time all was said and done, three factory resets were done on my phone and a dozen other trouble shooting steps. Finally the apple rep tried to make an apple pay transaction on my phone and it didn't work. Only then did they agree that my NFC was not working.

I'm pretty peeved about this. I am barely out of warranty. I can't read my medical device. My only choice is to spend hundreds on a new phone, carry two phones or purchase an expensive dedicated sensor from Abbott pharmaceuticals. Adding a bit more salt to the wound, I see that Apple has a website set up to explicitly promote the usage of apple products to doctors, medical systems and patients.

Apple: If you are going to market wearable medical technologies to us, they have to reliably work. There are people who could actually die from this issue. It is no joking matter.

Please resolve this issue immediately, offer those affected a fix or an immediate free replacement. Our health and well being has been threatened by a buggy iOS update. This is dangerous in addition to being unfair.

Similar situation here. New iPhone 13 Pro running iOS 15.4.1. I have a CUPLTag temperature and humidity logger that uses NFC to download the sample data.

Before 15.4 update it worked every time. Afterwards, it rarely works at all. In fact, I only think I've gotten it to work this way twice since the update.

Yet I can launch the NFC Tools, tap "Read", then move it near the tag and it reads immediately, every time.

Same, iPhone 13 Pro running 15.5 beta -- it seems like if I stand there forever and manipulate the phone enough, sometimes it will trigger? But maybe not on this last update.

The same for me. iPhone SE 2020 after upgrade 15.4.1 NFC down. ITS VERY IMPORTANT FOR MY HEALT, IM DIABETIC. please fix this IMPORTANT bug!!

Incredible. The bug is still there in the official iOS 15.5 release! I used NFC tags as HomeKit shortcuts, none of them work anymore :(

I advise everyone here to fill a bug report with Apple's Feedback Assistant: https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/ (iOS → CoreNFC API)

If only one or two people fill a bug report, nothing will change before many iOS releases. We need to work as a team here and act in group in order for Apple to react quickly.

And if you're a registered developper, please fill a bug report using Apple's Radar system too.

I advise everyone here to fill a bug report with Apple's Feedback Assistant: https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/%C2%A0(iOS → CoreNFC API)

Please follow the instructions on https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/ to use the Feedback Assistance App to generate your report.

Support staffs may reach out directly to request for further information.

Thanks.

Same here - iPhone 8 Plus, Fresh out of the box. I unfortunately did not test it with the stock OS (14.7) but only after updating it to 15.5 - no NFC.

Tried Beta 15.6 - no good.

Hope there's no hardware problem.

Is there an app that can send log files with the bug report?

We experience this on iPhone12. After upgrading to iOS 15.5 NFC stopped working for our app iPhone Xr, iPhone12 mini and iPhone13 continue to work with NFC

Same issue on my iPhone 13 Pro 15.5 (19F77)

Just reset your networking setting , go to

code-block

Setting -> General -> Transfer or Reset iPhone -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings

The downside is you need to submit WIFI access again

It just happened to me since a week ago and found this discussion here and did what been told here and the nfc still not working on my iphone 12. tried reboot several times and still not working. Tried to remember what i did before the nfc not wroking and then i remebered that week ago i activated the air drop to transfer some pucture to my friend, so it still active then i disable it.. and finally.. the nfc is working like before 😬😬 glad to find it. Then i tried to activate the air drop again.. and the nfc still active. Is it a bug ?

Same issue here too. I thought it is coming from the new iPhone case I'm using. I called Apple service and after the troubleshoot, they said everything is fine and requested a physical check on the phone (which was not achievable for me). however I noticed it's not working even without the case as well. If you remove the case, won't make any change I was thinking the case has cause permanent damage to my phone's NFC reader.

So what's the plan now? are they even reading all this information here???

The fix for me (iPhone 12, iOS 15.6) was to go into Settings -> General -> AirDrop and change the setting from Contacts Only to Everyone. After that, scanning of NFC tags worked again. Switched the setting back to Contacts Only and tried scanning the NFC tag again and it still worked. I assume this is a bug.

Update on iOS 15.6.1 - no change, NFC reader still dead on my iPhone. Using my Apple Watch - NFC working as expected and no problems, it is reading payment terminals without no issue.

Has there been any solution to this? Trying to write like 200 NFC tags but phone isn't picking up a single one.

So, 12 mini here. It's been off since ios 15.4, I updated every version of ios until today, ios 16.0.2. It never worked. Is Apple seeing our posts?

Same thing here running iOS 16 on my iPhone12pro with no use of background NFC reading, just reads through third party apps

Same here, iPhone 11 PM, tried 16.0.2 and also 16.0.3 beta, reseting airdrop, etc. - did not help, nfc still wont read any tags.

The same thing happened to my iPhone SE2020 on iOS16.0.3. Previously, it could read NFC but from some time it became unavailable. I have made NW setting reset, which was no effect. I solicit the solution.

Same problem here - NFC suddenly stopped working last Saturday. (Apple Pay doesn’t work anymore on any terminals)

iPhone 13 Pro - iOS 16.0.3

Update to iOS 16.1 didn’t fix it.

Apple support did some remote diagnostics - hardware is fine.