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Not out of the box, since normally the payment terminal is the reader.

Theoretically this could be switched such that the payment terminals would send out a unique ID over NFC, which the iPhone would then relay to the terminal via a server.

>Detect NFC tags and read messages that contain NDEF data.

Looks like it just allows the iPhone to read other tags.

>Reading NFC NDEF tags is supported on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.

I wonder why the iPhone 6/6S and Watch aren't supported?

Yes, that is a bummer. It means that all those NFC iphonse 6/6s in countries without Apple pay will never use the capabilities. Just stupid.

Hopefully this will allow NFC tap for airplane boarding passes instead of those awful screen scanners, as one example.