Lots of articles you see like about things like that aren't really correct, though I can't speak specifically for the NFC one. For a while there were people cam

Lots of articles you see like about things like that aren't really correct, though I can't speak specifically for the NFC one. For a while there were people campaigning to have the FM radio that was secretly embedded in all iPhones re enabled, not realising that it was a feature of one of the chips apple used for another purpose which simply didn't have the supporting hardware added.