I have 9 NFC tags in my house and put them all to good use — here’s what each does

Nine programmable stickers are hidden around my house right now, and not one of them cost more than a dollar. They sit under a desk, inside a cabinet door, on a lamp base, and in five other spots nobody has ever noticed. Tapping my iPhone against any of them fires a different automation, which is how these tags took over a stack of small phone chores I used to handle by hand. Apple has supported NFC as a Shortcuts trigger since iOS 13, and every iPhone from the XS forward reads tags without a third-party app. Here’s the full inventory, tag by tag, along with why each NFC Tag ended up where it did.