That I’m not sure about. I only have the X so I even have to use an app to open mine up. But from my friends phones it shows up as a safari notification. I assume from the way it works it would probably still just open it in a browser if it’s fully contained in the tag.
I’ll do some more testing with a friend and lyk once I’ve gotten rid of my rona
Rona? Virus?
If that’s what you mean, I wish you a good recovery!
Thanks lad
I was having issues with getting my XR to read a vCard
It would only find it if you used an app
(Which defeats the purpose for me)
I’ll try it some more
Which iOS are you on?
iOS 14
Hmm that’s odd
iOS does not (and never has) supported vCards for Background Tag Reading on any model of iPhone.
It supports URLs and a couple other types of data, if it pops up with Safari then the tag contains a link to a vCard but not the vCard itself.
3rd party apps can read the record and allow you to open vCards, but the person scanning would have to download and launch the app before scanning.
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I didn’t know there was a difference between vCard and a url to a vCard. If it takes you to it, it’s still a vCard no?
In one case, the Vcard is encoded on a mime-type record directly on the tag; in the other, the only data that is on the tag is an URL to a website/server which hosts the Vcard.
I hope I got that right 
Edit: spelling
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Ohhh gotcha, that makes sense
Axolotl got it in one, the file is identical, but in one case its stored entirely on the tag, in the other case it’s stored on a server somewhere and just linked to from the tag.
Key points are that a vCard on the chip itself can only be read natively by Android, iOS requires an app, but it will work offline. If you use a link to a server, both iOS and Android can handle it, but the person scanning must have an active internet connection for the card to download.
Pros and cons either way, pick your poison. The end result is the same but its an important distinction.
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It’s a crazy world we live in if you ask me, where to exchange a few bytes of data that fit perfectly in an NFC tag with someone right next to you, instead you exchange a URL that prompts the recipient’s device to make a connection to a server halfway around the world, exchange many IP packets, to finally download the few bytes of data that could have fitted onto the NFC tag in the first place. I just can’t get over the sheer stupidity of the cloud…
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I usually don’t object too much to Apple’s current restrictions on NFC, its a lot more open than it used to be and I like that it presents a banner that requires a click to consent to the action once you can confirm what it does (where Android will just trust the tag and do the action in a lot of cases)
But that said, I’m with you on this. The fact it can contain a URL, a link to call someone, map coordinates, a wifi password, but NOT a contact card is pretty ridiculous and an annoying limitation.
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