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By Mike Clark[2] • Updated nfcw.com[3]

Web NFC in action in a demo at Chrome Dev SummitWeb NFC in action in a demo at Chrome Dev Summit
Android users will be able to read and write NFC tags straight from web apps with the release of Chrome 89, the upcoming version of Google’s web browser, next month.

Support for Web NFC[4], an API that governs the exchange of NFC data exchange format (NDEF) messages between web pages and NFC tags, was built into the browser as an ‘origin trial’ in February 2020[5] but it was a hidden test feature that needed to be enabled by the user. Chrome 89 sees Web NFC support emerging from this trial as a regular feature that is enabled by default on Android devices.

“Web NFC allows a web app to read from and write to NFC tags,” says Google in a post on its Chromium Blog[6]. “This opens new use cases to the web, including providing information about museum exhibits, inventory management, providing information in a conference badge, and many others. In Chrome 89 on Android, Web NFC is enabled by default.”

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