Give this tool a try, it exports qr codes with data merge source file for vcards and other types:
https://qr.lovepoly.online/

“We will review the issue shortly”… It’s been four years, and it’s still a problem in version 2025!

I need my accents!

Dear Adobe Team. Please give full commitment to solve an overdue problem for all german speaking people. Generating a QR code in Indesign, using a name with «Umlaut», that said special signs such as üöäé etc. the system does not recognize them and writes while scanning the vCard instead of Müller, M√°ller. That problem is appearing since some updates, Millions of printed cards are therefore affected.

Please put max priority to that problem.

thank you

We will review the matter shortly????
Come on, four years and nothing happens?
85 Postst here alone - a lot more post about this problem in other places.

Please fix it now!

still not working
looks like apple will not allow addresses or URLS just name number and email work

The moment when you realize that a BUG submitted in 10/2020 is still not fixed and every other browser QR code generator does a better job and doesn't even get paid for it. It's really ironic to write "Thanks for reporting. We will review the issue shortly."

For everyone who is looking for a workaround:
https://www.qrcode-monkey.com

Enjoy

I am having this issue as well with the name, José. Their name is not Jose. The iphone scans are showing random symbols.

Please fix this. It looks like many of us are waiting for an update!

push - its 2023 ...

And please check that TEXT respects line breaks

How long will that review still take? I think three years should be enough to find out how to solve this.

Any update Adobe?

One of my clients has an 'ë' in his name. When scanning the QR-code with Android, everything is shown perfectly. However, when scanning with iPhone (no specific model) the 'ë' is recplaced by symbols, thus the system doesn't recognise the character or font. The cards have been printed, but are now not suitable for use, when handing them to clients using iPhone.
Is this a bug from Adobe, or what is going on? Will this be fixed in the near future, or do we need to reprint?

Currently, QR codes are having a great success. Especially when used on business cards. But indeed, on iPhones, many names and words with strange punctuation and accent marks are still being incorrectly converted. When will this finally change? There does appear to be a bug in the QR VCard converter when using iPhones.
So please, fix this.

This is still not working for iPhone and most of our customers have iPhones. In Europe, we have a lot of special characters. So please fix this!

This is still not working with special characters. When will you fix this? In Denmark we are using special characters in our alphabet: æ, ø og å - very common in names.

WHEN will you finally fix this bug and enable vCard 3.0? It's been three years since it was first posted. It is so annoying!

Dear Adobe,
the bug is still present, although there are no umlauts at all!

Vcard QR-Codes made with latest Indesign version (20.03.2023) often do not work with iPhone / iOS devices.
Error on iPhone (German): "Keine nutzbaren Daten gefunden" / : No usable data found

While android phones are always able to scan those "faulty" QR-codes.
This error also happens if there are no umlauts in the vacard fields.

If one produces 1.000 vcard qr-codes and 10 of them will not work,
it is not possible to find out which of them are faulty until scanning them one by one with iPhone.

Adobe please fix / update Indesigns V-Card 2.1 version to 3.0 or even better: 4.0!
Thank you!!!

See also:
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/45816058-qr-code-vcards-iphone-read-problem

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/46076959-code-of-qr-codes-bugged

Hi guys,
Has anyone tried to use vCard VERSION 3.0 to fix this? the format refers to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard

I use the below content to generate a QR code, and it works with my iPhone camera.

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Aimée;Anaëlle
FN:Anaëlle Anaëlle
TITLE:éçàùôâîë
ORG:éçàùôâîë
TEL;WORK;VOICE:12345
TEL;CELL;VOICE:67890
URL:https://www.drawtify.com
EMAIL:Anaëlle@gmail.com
ADR;WORK:;;éçàùôâîë
END:VCARD

Hi Adobe.

Any News on this?
The bug report ist quite old and there is no real workaround for this bug.

Best, Klaas

Hello, it is important also for the French users with all the é, ç, è ... when you import the card on an iPhone strange Characters appears instead of é (like √©).
Do you know how to resolve the problem ? Do you consider updating the Indesign vCard QR code 2.1 ?

In version 18.0, we still have the same problem in the Brazilian Portuguese language, where the "ô" identifiers cannot be identified either by the iPhone.

When generating a QR code (Vcard), umlauts such as Ä or Ö are not displayed correctly on iPhones. Also it would be great if we could edit the raster size of qr codes, so you could make smaller qr codes. The protective border around the QR code would also be great if it didn't come automatically by default, because I want to transform exactly the size of the QR code and not including the border.