A13 5G does not have NFC

[cba7]

My A13 phone does not have NFC and Contactless Payments option under Connections. How can I get this option?

[mbckl]

It doesn't look like the phone have NFC built in. This is a hardware issue and as a result you can't activate this.

[cba7]

Oh..no. This is so important feature :(
Thanks for your reply, mbckl.

[mbckl]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

I believe the next level up has it (A23) though!

[Troubadour]

I am not sure if this is correct. If you google"gsmarena a13 5g" the specs listed there indicate the 5 g model has nfc and other Google searches on specs confirm this, but elsewhere lists that the 4g model hasn't. Note occasionally a model can have the hardware but a particular country doesn't provide the supporting software. I think you should check with Samsung Support as being able to confirm this one way or the other.

[Troubadour]

Sometimes Samsung also supplies different models to different countries, e.g. ram differences. Gsmarena usually picks up on this but perhaps not in this case.

[Troubadour]

It also has to be turned on
https://www.t-mobile.com/support/tutorials/device/samsung/galaxy-a13-lte/topic/connections-amp-netwo...

[cba7]

Hello Troubadour, I do not find the option in Settings at all, here is the snip. I checked 'More connection settings ' but no luck.

[toppee]

We have been ripped off by samsung, surely we would expect all modern phones to have nfc. But this isn't the case.

[GalaxyA13User]

I am able to turn it on in settings but it immediately turns back off. Why??