Brand new iPhone 17 NFC not working

I have a brand new iphone 17 (purchased just two weeks ago), and have trouble when using NFC.
I managed to get it to work only twice, despite having tried multiple times.
I have verified that this is not an apple pay only problem, since trying to read an nfc card using the shortcuts app doesn’t work either (even though it did with the same card on a different iPhone).

I have seen multiple threads about this online, but no solutions. Does anyone have any experience with this issue?