Apple has stopped promoting iPhone 14 and the iPhone SE (2022) on its on-line shops within the European Union (EU). The Cupertino-based expertise large’s resolution to discontinue older iPhone fashions is in compliance with the mandate issued by the European Parliament that was issued in October, 2022 and got here into impact on December 28, 2024. It requires all small and medium-sized transportable digital units bought within the EU bloc to have a standard charging port — USB Type-C.
While Apple’s newer fashions such because the iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 come geared up with the aforementioned port, a number of of its older units, that are being discontinued within the EU, nonetheless characteristic the corporate’s proprietary lightning port. However, the EU’s mandate means even older units should be bought with a USB Type-C charger, as a consequence of which the expertise large is pulling iPhone 14 and iPhone SE (2022) from its on-line shops.
Gadgets 360 can affirm that Apple’s resolution has already come into impact. Apple shops in areas a part of the EU comparable to Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland, solely record iPhone 16 and iPhone 15 fashions as those on sale.
The discontinued fashions are additionally purported to be quickly faraway from the corporate’s offline shops too.
However, this doesn’t apply to the UK which left the EU in 2020 in a transfer famously often called ‘Brexit’. Apple’s UK on-line retailer nonetheless formally sells the iPhone 14 and iPhone SE (2022). Meanwhile, the corporate is predicted to launch the successor to the latter early subsequent yr and it’s purported to be geared up with a USB Type-C port, in compliance with the European Parliament.
In addition to creating USB Type-C the charging commonplace on small and medium-sized transportable electronics, it is usually confirmed to return into impact for laptops beginning April 28, 2026. Further, the EU’s USB Type-C mandate additionally permits customers to choose out of receiving a charger when shopping for new units. This is alleged to be in a bid to cut back the e-waste generated by totally different chargers for a number of units, allow customers to make sustainable selections and clear up the difficulty of market fragmentation.
