Apple Removes iPhone 14 and iPhone SE (2022) from Online Stores in the EU

Apple has stopped promoting iPhone 14 and the iPhone SE (2022) on its on-line shops within the European Union (EU). The Cupertino-based know-how large’s choice 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 moveable digital gadgets offered within the EU bloc to have a typical charging port — USB Sort-C.

Whereas 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 gadgets, that are being discontinued within the EU, nonetheless characteristic the corporate’s proprietary lightning port. Nonetheless, the EU’s mandate means even older gadgets should be offered with a USB Sort-C charger, because of which the know-how large is pulling iPhone 14 and iPhone SE (2022) from its on-line shops.

Devices 360 can affirm that Apple’s choice has already come into impact. Apple shops in areas a part of the EU reminiscent of 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 imagined to be quickly faraway from the corporate’s offline shops too.

Nonetheless, 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). In the meantime, the corporate is anticipated to launch the successor to the latter early subsequent 12 months and it’s imagined to be geared up with a USB Sort-C port, in compliance with the European Parliament.

Along with making USB Sort-C the charging customary on small and medium-sized moveable electronics, it’s also confirmed to return into impact for laptops beginning April 28, 2026. Additional, the EU’s USB Sort-C mandate additionally permits shoppers to choose out of receiving a charger when shopping for new gadgets. That is mentioned to be in a bid to scale back the e-waste generated by totally different chargers for a number of gadgets, allow shoppers to make sustainable selections and clear up the problem of market fragmentation.