Apple will quickly cease promoting sure iPhone fashions within the 27 nations that belong to the Europe Union (EU). As 2024 involves an finish and 2025 begins, the third-gen iPhone SE and the iPhone 14 collection will not be offered within the EU. They are the one telephones nonetheless accessible from Apple that use Apple’s proprietary Lightning charger and port for charging and knowledge switch. The drawback is that due to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), beginning in January 2025 all telephones offered in EU nations will need to have a USB-C port and cost utilizing a USB-C cable.
The aim is to scale back digital waste within the 27 EU member nations by standardizing charging cables. With the brand new rule, shoppers switching from iOS to Android and vice versa will not have to make use of a brand new charging cable to cost or switch knowledge on their new telephones. This reduces the variety of unused cables getting tossed in landfills. The first full iPhone collection to characteristic a USB-C charging port was final yr’s iPhone 15 collection.
Sure, Apple might have determined to construct new variations of the iPhone 14 line and third-gen iPhone SE with a USB-C port and offered them in Europe. However, the tech big determined simply to drop these fashions from its lineup on the continent. Elsewhere, resembling within the U.S., the iPhone 14 collection and the third-gen iPhone SE with Lightning ports will nonetheless be accessible till subsequent spring when the iPhone SE 4 can be launched. That mannequin will sport a USB-C port in all markets.
Before the proprietary Lightning cable was launched, the iPhone used an enormous 30-pin cable for charging and to switch knowledge. | Image credit-Walmart
The iPhone SE 4 would be the first funds iPhone mannequin to be outfitted with an edge-to-edge show, the Notch, and Face ID. The design of the cellphone can be based mostly on the iPhone 14
though it is going to embody 8GB of RAM and probably be powered by the A18 software processor (AP) in order that the cellphone can assist Apple Intelligence.
The iPhone 14 collection will stay accessible outdoors of Europe till the iPhone 17 line is launched subsequent September. At that time, the iPhone 14 collection will not be offered by Apple in all markets ending the Lightning port period for the iPhone. The first iPhone to come back with the Lightning port and cost with the Lightning cable was the iPhone 5, launched in 2012. Before that, the iPhone used a 30-pin charger beginning with the unique iPhone in 2007 working by 2011’s iPhone 4s.
