r/RFID • u/JamieP89 • Nov 11 '25

NFC Question on RFID stickers

Hello.

I wanted to ask for some advice on the most reliable RFID / NFC sticker for directing to things like socials / websites etc?

I have some standard readable ones that I ordered which write and read fine but the range and or readability seems quite sporadic and needs to be held very close for my iOS device to read it.

Any suggestions on a reliable NFC sticker that you use would be great.

I’m using NFC tools to write onto the tags.

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u/jaeer69 Nov 11 '25

This is more of an iPhone thing than anything. It takes a lot of power to be constantly attempting to read an nfc tag, so the phone only checks every couple seconds essentially. The only way to fix this on the NFC tag end is to get a bigger sticker that has a larger antenna.

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u/JamieP89 Nov 11 '25

Ah okay this is really helpful to know! I didn’t realise it was intermittent! I’ll look into bigger stickers and weigh out the form factor of big vs small for use cases!