iPhone 13 not reading text record on NExT chip

spughetti · February 27, 2026, 7:11am

Hey y’all.

My new NExT chip only contains the string 💋💋💋, though my iPhone 13 won’t show a pop-up when I try to scan it. It does however work when I put a LinkedIn link on my chip. My old Huawei P Smart reads the 💋💋💋 string just fine.

Cheers!

Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha · February 27, 2026, 7:15am

iPhones don’t support every NFC record type, plaintext is one of the unsupported ones:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/equipter/de2d9e421be9af1615e9b9cad4834ddc

NDEF on iOS.md

# iOS NDEF Record Compatibility 

## Introduction 
[NDEF](https://freemindtronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NFC-Data-Exchange-Format-NDEF.pdf) (NFC Data exchange format) is a method of transferring (relatively small amounts of) information from a passive or actively emulated tag by way of "records" which specify the type of information is being received and the function it is meant to have. 

iPhones do not have a full suite of NDEF compatibility, the reason for this is unknown (to me at least), what this means is the background polling on iPhones will not interpret some specific record types, with compatible NDEF records, a notification will pop up directing the user to follow the received data into its respective app to complete whatever action was intended by the record. 

## Compatibility Table 

Below are the options offered by NFC Tools on IOS for NDEF Encoding, some of the options below are other record types but with a specific function IE social links are just URLs.

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spughetti · February 27, 2026, 7:33am

oh mannn😔

I thought I could cheat it by making it open https://💋💋💋, but then it just gives me an “Open this in your browser” pop-up and shows this

Hamspiced · March 1, 2026, 9:06am

Why not host a picture of it and then link to the picture

spughetti · March 4, 2026, 10:43am

This is actually a really great idea. Since iOS doesn’t really support Contact records either (bastards), I might make an ID card-esque picture (not for fraud purposes) with some of my info on it and link to that image. How fun!

Hamspiced · March 4, 2026, 12:32pm

For that you can use a service like blinq. And then link to the website url

spughetti · April 12, 2026, 11:05am

Ohh no I meant it much more literally, I made this:

So initially my idea was to have my chip link to a webpage with this picture on it, which would then also immediately prompt to download a vCard file. But that seems a bit clunky, and it’s kinda a security risk as anyone who finds the webpage would also immediately have my email and phone number (not good).

Right now I’ve got a vCard on record 1 and just my phone number on record 2. So if someone scans me on Android they should immediately get the vCard, and if someone scans me on iOS they should just get a pop-up with my number. Still pretty cool