How to use NFC payment on your Samsung Galaxy S21 FE?

Paying with a smartphone was imagination but thanks to NFC technology, today it is very common to take out your phone and proceed with purchases at various places. Nowadays, this feature comes in almost all new smartphones. The newly launched Samsung Galaxy S21 FE also allows NFC payments to its users. In this article, we’ll see how to use NFC payment on Galaxy S21 FE.

Before starting, let us discuss, what is NFC. Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless connection standard. In a nutshell, it is a proximity-based wireless communication standard. Unlike Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, NFC interaction is limited to an extremely short range.

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Although the primary use of NFC in a Samsung smartphone is making easy payments with Samsung Pay, one can also use it to quickly connect with wireless devices and transfer data with Android Beam. However, this feature only works when it is also enabled in the device you want to connect to.

How to use NFC payment on Samsung Galaxy S21 FE:

• Open Settings of your smartphone
• Tap Connections then NFC and contactless payments
• Turn the toggle on to use this feature.

How to use Tap and pay via NFC

Use an NFC payment app to make payments by touching your device to a compatible
credit card reader.

• Turn on the NFC feature by navigating to the above-mentioned steps.
• Tap Contactless payments to see the default payment app.
  • To use another payment app, tap an available app to choose it.
  • To use a payment app that is open, tap Pay with the currently open app.
  • To set another payment service as the default, tap Others, and then tap the service you prefer.