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Re:Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch ... by layer8 on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:13PM (#42783394)

By the way, you can trigger iOS shortcuts with NFC tags, so in principle you can trigger any functionality exposed as a Shortcut action. However, NFC recognition doesn’t always work as smoothly as one would hope.

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Re:Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch ... by _tariky on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @03:15PM (#42784706)

It depends on the type and manufacturer of the NFC chip. I recommend using SLIX2 chips; they are a bit more expensive, but they work perfectly.

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Re:Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch ... by awaseem on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @05:29PM (#42785890)

Yeah 100% I think I commented this somewhere else as well. Your phone already has this natively built in, you don't need any of these apps at all.

Over the break I wanted to build something that was gonna make this easier for myself. I built it and made it totally free and open source. I don't see a competitive advantage, but just a fun challenge for myself to build and get this type of app reviewed.

Maybe I'll write a blog post about the apple review submission because that was a not fun lol

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Re:Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch ... by whycome on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @07:08PM (#42786946)

To expand here, when using NFC to trigger an iOS shortcut, there's nothing actually written to the NFC. Instead, shortcuts responds when that NFC is present. So you can actually write something like a URL to the chip and have it act simultaneously.

You can even use an airtag because it sees it as an NFC as well.

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