Deep Linking

I was listening to an old episode of Fireside Swift today discussing NFC tags. I have a bundle of this tags in a drawer here somewhere - I thought it would be cool to tap one as I came home to turn off the CCTV and some other home automation things. But it turns out my phone (an SE2) has the capability for this, but only inside an app - not just from anywhere, whereas the proper phones can just tap anytime, and if the NFC payload is set up correctly, follow a URL, including by “deep linking” into an app.