Apple Pulls Remaining Lightning-based Devices From European Stores

Apple is nary longer trading its iPhone SE and iPhone 14 bid successful Europe — nan past telephone models pinch Apple’s proprietary Lightning charging larboard — arsenic the EU shifts to a communal charging solution built astir USB-C. EU Directive 2022/2380 goes into portion coming successful an effort to trim e-waste and lick marketplace fragmentation.

A spot cheque by The Verge shows nan iPhone SE, iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, and nan Lightning-based Magic Keyboard personification been pulled from stores successful The Netherlands, France, and Germany. Those aforesaid devices are still for discarded successful nan US and different countries extracurricular nan EU’s 27 unit states. A caller iPhone SE pinch USB-C and different upgrades like an OLED show is rumored for 2025.

In summation to requiring a USB-C larboard connected a wide scope of devices sold successful nan EU from December 28th, 2024, nan Directive too requires devices that support accelerated charging to support nan USB PD standard, allows for nan unbundling of charging bricks from portion devices, and helps consumers to amended understand nan powerfulness requirements of nan devices they’re buying done improved labeling.