Hello, I am currently working on a project that requires the use of the NFCTagReaderSession API to perform read and write operations on NFC tags (ISO15693 and other standard NFC tag types). According to the Apple documentation, CoreNFC and NFCTagReaderSession are fully supported on iPhone devices. However, the behavior and availability on iPad devices are not clearly documented. I would like to request clarification on the following points: Is NFCTagReaderSession officially supported on iPad devices? We have verified that some iPad models equipped with NFC hardware still do not expose support for this API. Is there an up-to-date list of iPad models that support CoreNFC? The documentation currently mentions only “iPhone 7 or later,” with no reference to iPad models. Does Apple plan to enable NFCTagReaderSession on iPad in the future? This information is important for our product roadmap, as several of our deployments rely on tablets. Our goal is to determine whether NFC tag read/write operations are intended to be available exclusively on iPhone, or whether there are existing or upcoming iPad models that will support CoreNFC as well. Thank you in advance for your support and for any clarification you can provide. Kind regards,
CoreNFC / NFCTagReaderSession Availability on iPad
At this time, CoreNFC functionality is only available on iPhones with NFC capability.
We cannot discuss future changes to hardware or software.
You can always determine the availability at runtime by checking the NFCReaderSession.readingAvailable property to determine whether the user’s device supports scanning for and detecting NFC tags, and then handle your user experience gracefully depending on the outcome. This way your app would be ready to use any functionality if it were to become available in future OS or device versions.