{"id":214512,"date":"2017-06-07T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T16:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=214512"},"modified":"2017-06-07T18:05:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T16:05:26","slug":"apple-nfc-support-for-ios-may-be-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/214512-apple-nfc-support-for-ios-may-be-coming.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple NFC support for iOS may be coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released documentation for iOS 11 that suggests it will open Near Field Communications (NFC) functionality in iPhones to developers, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.ibm.com\/dwblog\/2017\/nfc-ios-reading-nfc-tags\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IBM DeveloperWorks blog reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The documents detail a new framework that will allow\u00a0the latest iPhones to read NFC tags, and not just Apple Pay tags.<\/p>\n<p>However, the report stated\u00a0that most users won\u2019t have NFC reader support until Q3 2017,\u00a0when iOS 11 is set for public\u00a0release.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/06\/06\/ios-11-iphone-core-nfc-chip-more-than-apple-pay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Engadget speculated<\/a><\/strong> that Apple may\u00a0prevent\u00a0NFC in the iPhone from being used to pair with Bluetooth devices.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has a proprietary easy-pairing system based on its W1 chip, which the company may want\u00a0to ensure retains exclusivity on the feature.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/214074-ios-11-announced-all-the-details.html\">iOS 11 announced &#8211; All the details<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released documentation for iOS 11 that suggests it will open NFC functionality to developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,26730,43690,1125,19615],"class_list":["post-214512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-apple-pay","tag-ios-11","tag-iphone","tag-near-field-communications-nfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214540,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214512\/revisions\/214540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}