For those of you who forgot this, the terminals iPhone they integrated a chip NFC by the Apple company since 2014, being offered to enable mobile payments through Apple Pay. Although the iPhone has NFC, the Apple company currently does not allow its use for anything other than Apple Pay, but starting with iOS 11 things could change radically, support for many devices can be offered.
Meanwhile, a tweak for jailbroken iPhone terminals, called NFCWriter, offers the possibility to use NFC for almost anything we want. According to the one who created NFCWriter for iPhone, the tweak allows reading almost any type of NFC tag, but at the same time allows writing some, including saving them in the dedicated application to recognize them more easily.
Based on the content of NFCWriter tags, users can perform certain actions on the iPhone, read/write NDEF messages, or display information about the tag. Here we are talking about the manufacturer, the type of tag, the serial number, the size of the memory and many others, the types of tags recognized by NFCWriter through the NFC chip of the iPhone being listed below.
NFCWriter can be installed by downloading from Cydia's BigBoss repo.
- Read most common tag types
- Write tags
- Host Emulation Mode *with limitations for now
- Manage and save your tags in one place.
- Perform actions based on your tag's contents.
- Read/Write NDEF messages
- Display information about your tags like Manufacturer, Tag Type, Serial Number, ATQA, SAK, Memory Size, etc.
- Supported tag types are ISO 14443, Mifare, ISO 15693, iCode SLIX, all of the NTAG series.
- Supported protocols are ISO 14443 and Mifare.
- Host Emulation Mode currently only allows you to set a custom Serial Number to your device and emulate a tag's serial number, no tag content emulation yet.
