View NFC status, and quickly access NFC settings, from the Quick Settings menu
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
Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later, by Paul Colby.
What's New in v1.5.4-pre
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- - Support for Android 17.
Version history
Jun 21, 2026 · 1.5 MB · Android API 24–37 · code 20
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- - Support for Android 17.
SHA-256 6d61134a637513389920e0a44d9a5c67b2a852fe27585a49a0569606b2410493
Oct 2, 2025 · 1.9 MB · Android API 24–36 · code 19
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
SHA-256 ae450a66e969b71975bcba502b86c5123a29c509ada43bec3dad6a911171f661
Aug 27, 2025 · 1.8 MB · Android API 24–36 · code 18
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
SHA-256 604c532413899799dc0213fcea857e518162d368d07d0eba56e7629ae21b9056
Will it run on your device?
78%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- ABI coverage is focused on newer 64-bit devices.
- Aligned with the latest Android target SDK expectations.
Installation Guide
Open Settings on your Android device
Go to Security → Unknown sources (or Install unknown apps)
Enable "Allow from this source" for your browser or file manager
Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
Make sure to re-enable Unknown Sources restrictions after installation for security.
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How to roll back to an earlier version
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SHA-256 Hash
6d61134a637513389920e0a44d9a5c67b2a852fe27585a49a0569606b2410493
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