NFC Quick Settings

Colby Digital

About this app

NFC Quick Settings is a simple, open source, utility for quickly checking the device's current NFC status, and enabling or disabling NFC with as few taps as possible.

NFC Quick Settings has no user interface of it's own. Instead, once installed, you will see a new "NFC" tile available when customising your Quick Settings menu. See "Add, remove, or move a setting" in Android Help for more information on customising the Quick Settings menu: https://support.google.com/android/answer/9083864?hl=en#customize_settings

Once the NFC Quick Settings tile has been added to your Quick Settings menu, the tile will show the current NFC status.

Android security limitations do not allow any third-party apps, such as this, to turn NFC on or off directly, so when tapped, the NFC Quick Settings tile will simply open the device's NFC Settings page (if the device has one), where you can enable or disable NFC as desired.

NFC Quick Settings also has an advanced mode that allows NFC to be toggled directly from the tile, without having to going the NFC Settings page. But this advanced mode requires special permissions, which can only be granted via the Android Debug Bridge on a desktop computer. You can read more about this mode at https://github.com/pcolby/nfc-quick-settings?tab=readme-ov-file#advanced-mode

NFC Quick Settings is freely available under the GPLv3 open source license. The source code is available at https://github.com/pcolby/nfc-quick-settings

Ratings and reviews

This is excellent and a must for users who need quick access to enable or disable NFC. However is there a reason an app is now been added to the user interface, rather than the tile just been added as previously happened when installed.

I am using pixel 9A and it doesn't have quick access to turn NFC on and off which I don't understand why. This app saved my life, using this every time I use my Google wallet.

This app does exactly what I was looking for. The app adds an NFC tile that takes you to the NFC page in Settings so you can toggle NFC On or Off. I highly recommend this app! Personally, I can't think of a single reason to leave NFC On all the time because it is a security risk. I only turn it on while I am paying and then turn it off immediately. Huge shout out to the developers for this app!

What’s new

Fixed a rare background crash when a device's NFC system is temporarily unavailable.