hi!
I have one curiosity about the iPhone and external NFC cards because I tried to use the public transport card wearing it into my iPhone 6 case and it doesn't work. If I have it in my wallet (wich take more space between the card and the reader) works fine, so I think that it can be some kind of interference that make the iPhone.
regards!
iPhone 6, iOS 8.3
It could be the phone (as it does have an NFC chip) or it could be the partciular case.
The case is the original leather from Apple, and the iPhone's chip should be disconnected because I'm from Europe and we don't have Apple Pay by the moment...
I don't know that that means the NFC chip is disconneted. However, you can do the experiment. Take the phone out of the case and hold the transit card and the case against the reader and see if it works. If it does, it was the case. If it doesn't it was the phone. You will then know if you need to consider a different case or carrying the transit card somewhere else.
thanks for for the Advice!
anyway it isn't something important, only curiosity...
At my job, we use badges with RFID chips to get through secure doors. Some of my colleagues had NFC business cards. If they were in the same badge holder, they couldn't get doors to open.
Perhaps someday, they'll get all the kinks worked out. Not holding my breath. 😉
This has always been a problem with NFC cards. Most readers can't deal with more than one NFC source in range at a time. I carry access cards for several clients. I have to make sure the card I'm using is the only one that is near the sensor. There have also been reports that people using the optical scanner for boarding passes at airports trigger the passport reader with Apple Pay.
Thanks!
its clearly an iPhone problem, because when I take off the iPhone it works again.
thanks for answering
by the way... It would be a great option to can use the iPhone instead of thousands of cards like this... Maybe even the Apple watch ;p
As I said, it isn't really an iPhone problem. It's an NFC problem. The technology, which is out of Apple's control, cannot tolerate 2 or more NFC content sources simultaneously. You would have the same problem if you had 2 keycards in your holder, or a keycard and a mass transit card. I know, because I can't keep my PATH subway card in the same holder as my office access card.
Contactless cards doesn't work inside iPhone 6 case
