
Hex NFC: Reader & Writer
Tag Scanner and Programmer
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What's New in Hex NFC
1.0.2
November 2, 2026
- A passport's chip opens only with the number and dates from its photo page, and now the camera can fill them in. When the app asks for them, choose Scan photo page, line the page up with the outline on screen, then check what the camera read. The image is read on your iPhone and never kept. Typing them in still works. - A blank MIFARE DESFire EV1, EV2 or EV3 card can now be set up as an NDEF tag with Format, then read and written like any other tag. So far this is confirmed on EV3 cards. Remove NDEF setup, under Dangerous Actions, takes a card set up this way back to blank. A card that is already in use, such as a transit or access card, is refused and left untouched. - Type 4 tags from makers other than NXP are now found, where before the scan sheet kept waiting. They can be read and written, and so can a phone set up to act as a tag. So far this has been checked with a phone acting as a tag, not yet with a physical one. - Send Feedback, in Settings, sends a message straight to us. The form shows the details that go with it (app version, iOS version, device model and language), and nothing from your tags or history is included. Rate Hex NFC is in Settings too, and a Docs button on the home screen opens the online documentation. - Chinese travel permits now show the right details, under the heading Travel permit. They used to be read as identity cards, which put letters in the date of birth and cut the document number in half. - Typing a document number longer than nine characters, as on a Belgian identity card, no longer cuts it short. - Pressing Write straight after swiping away a tag's last record no longer closes the app on iOS 27.
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