Read Business Cards on iOS native functionality

[enigmanius]

Hello everybody,

I hope to find some help here with the following issue:

Intro:
I have a xNT Tag (NFC Forum Type 2 | NTAG 216) and an iPhone 13.

I already managed to format it with TagWriter by NXP (and with NFC Tools, too).

So far, reading an URL and reading a telephone number works well.

Problem
I can’t get Business Cards working. Writing them works well, but reading it with the native iOS does not work. (reading and opening it with “NFC TagInfo” does work!)

Goal
I want iOS reading the Business Card and opens it in the native “Contacts” App. Is that possible at all?

Thank you for assistance in advance.

Regards

[amal]

I don’t think it is possible because apple puts a firewall between the NFC functions and Contacts. This is why it specifically doesn’t work on iPhones. It’s on purpose.

[enigmanius]

Thank you for this feedback

[Pilgrimsmaster]

You could look at a url link, the only downside is, externally hosted.
oh
and you need an internet connection, but hopefully this is not an issue.

TagWriter will also do this

there are variety of providers that you can chose from

Wiki: Contact Sharing NFC Business cards

As the creator of one such site dropped into an old thread today, and some sites seem to be no more I thought it might be useful to list some of the sites we know about. There is nothing to say that you can’t just save the information anywhere and provide a URL in NDEF on your chip. In fact most of these look like that is what they do. I have no experience of any of these, but these are the ones that I could find that are currently active. This has been arranged in alphabetical order of doma…

[Lordhavik]

i ended up buying a linq nfc business card bracelet. copied its link to my chip and this reads native. but as others said it goes to a website that points to your specific directory. so you need internet

[Equipter]

NDEF on iOS gist

[enigmanius]

Great, thank you for this! Very useful