RFID has a different error message

[alpascual]

Looks like RFID now is missing an unknown entitlement key in beta 3 Error reading RFID-Tag: Required entitlement is missing

[hansemannn]

I looked through the Beta 2 -> Beta 3 API changes and could not find relevant changes for the RFID-API. Apple also still does not link it in their web-docs, so I do not think they want you to use it so far. If you find a proper entitlement that actually gets accepted, let me know!

I will leave this issue open for now, thx!

[alpascual]

Doesn't look like Apple is sharing that information in beta 3 so far. We may have to wait until beta 4. Thanks

[haemi]

does this mean that it worked in beta 2 but not in beta 3?

[hansemannn]

Nope, neither in Beta 2 or 3

[haemi]

last question regrading this and RFID: does RFID in this case mean that longer distances (some ~ 10cm or so) are possible to scan or still only 0-2 cm?

[hansemannn]

Active RFID tags can even be used from 100m, crazy right? So yes, the RFID distance can be way longer, see this article for more infos.

[haemi]

but passive ones? With the iPhone?

[hansemannn]

The linked article will help ;-)

Passive RFID tags do not have their own power source. Instead, they are powered by the electromagnetic energy transmitted from the RFID reader. Because the radio waves must be strong enough to power the tags, passive RFID tags have a read range from near contact and up to 25 meters.

[haemi]

unfortunately it doesn't help; I don't know if the iPhone is strong enough to "ping" the passive token, because e.g. I tested an Android Phone which recognized the RFID tag but I had to bring it very, very close to the tag (~ 2cm)

[Dalein]

What about RFID in Beta 4?

[hansemannn]

Nope 😐. Just tried using Beta 4 - while the search dialog pops up for around a second, it then closes automatically and aborts with the error Error reading RFID-Tag: Required entitlement is missing inside the console. Does anyone know about RFID entitlements?

[M0rph3v5]

no new options in the dropdown or anything?

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Nope 😐. Just tried using Beta 4 - while the search dialog pops up for around a second, it then closes automatically and aborts with the error Error reading RFID-Tag: Required entitlement is missing inside the console. Does anyone know about RFID entitlements?

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[hansemannn]

👎 No new option, no new docs and not even an API-change (diff'd it) regarding CoreNFC from Beta 3 to 4.

[ocastx]

Beta 5 was just released, could not check it yet

[hansemannn]

No new CoreNFC changes between Beta 4 and 5 (see diff) ...

[jonathanjacob]

Beta 6 was released yesterday. In the release notes I see under resolved: • Reader mode utilizing NFC now works correctly on supported devices. (32721033)

was this the related radar?

[dickwu]

beta 6 still not work

[hansemannn]

Still not possible to read RFID-chips. I believe it will not be supported in iOS 11 GA, since it's all about NFC explicitly. I'll keep this issue open to track progress.

[transparentmask]

I did some work in current beta. I found some strings in /usr/libexec/nfcd and /usr/libexec/seld which are extracted from ipsw package. So, the RFID string in entitlement should be "ISO15693".

But there is a private class named "NFServiceWhitelistChecker". And it have some methods like "-[NFServiceWhitelistChecker _initCoreNFCEntitlements:]", "-[NFServiceWhitelistChecker nfcISO15693ReaderAccess]", "-[NFServiceWhitelistChecker nfcNDEFAccess]".

I also noticed, if I set "ISO15693" in entitlement, the device log will show me "Skipping a profile because of error 0xe8008012" and "entitlement '\<private>' has value not permitted by provisioning profile '\<private>'". But if I set the meaningless string "test123" in entitlement, it can pass the validation.

So, maybe the NFServiceWhitelistChecker class done an extra check so that "ISO15693", even "com.apple.developer.nfc.readersession.iso15693.tag-identifiers" can not pass the validation.

[andy-fueled]

I am trying to get the UID of a tag, and tried to create a NFCISO15693ReaderSession, but am also getting Error reading RFID-Tag: Required entitlement is missing. Do you have any additional info on how to get around this?

[hansemannn]

Coming back to this, it should obviously either be exposed by Apple properly or not be an option for developers. It cannot be that they have a public RFID API that nobody can use in a Beta 10 close to GM. Did anyone get the chance to talk to Apple about this?

[transparentmask]

I try with iOS 11 GM Seed & Xcode 9 GM Seed. When I setting entitlement with "ISO15693", the app can not install in my iPhone 7. And If not fill with "ISO15693", will show me "Error reading RFID-Tag: Required entitlement is missing".

So, read RFID is not allow. Just waiting someone to try with iPhone 8.

[jasjukaitis]

Not sure if they were too lazy to remove all the NFCISO15693 from the SDK or to extend the documentation. I also tried different entitlements, but none are working. Really frustrating. :(

[hansemannn]

@transparentmask Did you get an iPhone 8 to test already? Would wonder if it works there!

[rtnlsltn]

Couldn't get anything to read with an iPad Pro so I picked up an iPhone 7. The "ready to scan" dialogue opens up but it won't recognize any of my tags....

[egcode]

Tried with iPhone 8, same error: Error reading RFID-Tag: Required entitlement is missing

[retroneo]

How about iOS 11.1 now that it has released.

[hansemannn]

No CoreNFC api's added.

[mozeryansky]

@transparentmask Were you able to get past the entitlement issue? I added the entitlement you found but Xcode won't run the app on my phone, I get an error "The executable was signed with invalid entitlements.": The entitlements specified in your application’s Code Signing Entitlements file are invalid, not permitted, or do not match those specified in your provisioning profile. (0xE8008016).

[transparentmask]

I can not run test app with NFCISO15693 entitlements (both "ISO15693" and "com.apple.developer.nfc.readersession.iso15693.tag-identifiers").

[Joohansson]

iOS 11.2 on iPhone 7: Error reading RFID-Tag: Required entitlement is missing Still no successful attempts?

[mozeryansky]

I filed a bug on Apple about allowing NFC and they closed it as "Not to be fixed", so as far as I can tell they don't plan to support it.

[hansemannn]

@mozeryansky Based on that feedback, I'll close this issue for now, but will be happy to reopen it as there is progress on it in future versions of iOS. Thanks everyone for this great discussion!

[kaqijiang]

hopes to use this feature, sustained attention. iphone7 11.3 Error reading RFID-Tag: Required entitlement is missing

[kaqijiang]

Does iOS12 support RFID? Has anyone been trying?

[hansemannn]

Nope, these are the only iOS 12 CoreNFC changes so far. More maybe to come over the next 3 months.

[jpsubbarayalu]

Hi @hansemannn, Tried using iPhone 7 with iOS 11.4, Still i am getting the same error, Error reading RFID-Tag: Required entitlement is missing

[kukudy]

Unfortunately - I tried with 12.1.4 - same results :( Must have access to RFID!

[cbrockschmidt]

Some more tag types seem to be supported in iOS13, including ISO7816, ISO15693, FeliCa, and MIFARE: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc?changes=latest_minor
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc/nfctagreadersession?changes=latest_minor Has anyone already had the chance to try this?

[hansemannn]

@cbrockschmidt Will extend the repo this week and let you know

[BadChoice]

in ios13 you get this error

Use of undeclared type 'NFCISO15693ReaderSession'

Can't find if there is a new way to work with it?

[BadChoice]

Ok, found that now we have to use

NFCTagReaderSession(pollingOption: [.iso14443, .iso15693/*, .iso18092*/], delegate: self, queue: nil)

And add the TAG value into the entitlements too, (I commented the 18092 since seems it is not a TAG hehe)

however it doesn't seem to find my RFID tag :(

[YangYouYong]

@cbrockschmidt have you tried ISO15693 tag in iOS 13 ? Use the API NFCTagReaderSession(pollingOption: [.iso14443, .iso15693], delegate: self, queue: nil) can detect the ISO15693 tag . but does not support sendCustomCommandWithConfiguration:completionHandler: method