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NFC
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 7 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
NFC phones keep trying to connect and vibrate constantlyUnreviewed
20132026- Two phones with NFC enabled keep trying to talk to each other and vibrate constantly2021-05-16
- NFC payment is finicky, needing repeated waving of phone or card, slowing lines2020-10-27
- Devices are hard to get to make the NFC handshake, and content types mismatch between Windows Phone and Android2013-09-16
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 9 complaints
- User cannot find how to switch profiles without NFC tags2025-01-22
- Phantom scans trigger even when the phone is nowhere near a tag2025-01-21
- People can't tell NFC tags can be tapped, so the affordance goes unnoticed2025-01-21
- Two phones with NFC enabled keep trying to talk to each other and vibrate constantly2021-05-16
- NFC payment is finicky, needing repeated waving of phone or card, slowing lines2020-10-27
- Phone must be tapped to authorize NFC action, making automations cumbersome to use2019-11-04
- Card payment stalls for a long time after acceptance while the receipt prints2018-05-25
- Text read from NFC tags can't be copied, shared or saved, only dismissed2015-06-21
- Devices are hard to get to make the NFC handshake, and content types mismatch between Windows Phone and Android2013-09-16