What if you’re on your computer, though? You could point your phone at the computer screen, but that inter-device dance isn’t necessary. You can open that code right from your laptop or desktop.

Unlike Windows, macOS is yet to offer a pre-installed solution for scanning QR codes on your laptop. However, there are a bunch of QR code readers you can easily get from the Mac App Store.

You could point your phone at the computer screen, but that inter-device dance isn’t necessary. You can open that code right from your laptop or desktop. Scan a QR code in Google Chrome ...