The iOS 12 release in September 2018 was a rough one for Apple Pay Suica users. It brought new problems like random gate errors, and left old problems, like unresponsive Suica Recharge and Suica balance not updating, unfixed. Everyone experienced problems, everyone except A12 Bionic iPhone XS and iPhone XR […]
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Tsutsumu Ishikawa Bitten by the iPhone X NFC Problem
Tsutsumu Ishikawa is probably Japan’s premier tech journalist who came up through the traditional print journalism of Nikkei, kind of like Walt Mossberg or Joanna Stern of WSJ. Ishikawa san was also the journalist who broke the Apple Pay coming to Japan story in the summer of 2016 in the […]
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iPhone X NFC Problem Holdouts
There are many iPhone X owners in Japan with the Suica NFC problem who are simply not aware of it for various reasons (and this blog is far too small to make any difference). And then there are the holdouts: iPhone X owners with Suica problem devices who know what […]
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The iPhone X NFC Problem One Year Later
One year later there are still plenty of defective NFC iPhone X devices out there. I know because the page views for iPhone X Suica Problem Q&A Exchange Guide are consistently high enough to suggest people go out of their way to search the problem online. My rough estimate is […]
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Help for iPhone X NFC Problem Devices
Until now large scale Apple Pay Express Transit use has been limited to Tokyo (Suica) and Beijing/Shanghai (China Transit). Apple Pay Suica is by far Apple’s largest Express Transit market since Suica has been in use for transit and store purchases nationwide for over a decade and on mobile phones […]