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 big’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 moveable digital units 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 units, that are being discontinued within the EU, nonetheless function the corporate’s proprietary lightning port. Nonetheless, the EU’s mandate means even older units have to be offered with a USB Sort-C charger, attributable to which the know-how big is pulling iPhone 14 and iPhone SE (2022) from its on-line shops.

Devices 360 can affirm that Apple’s resolution has already come into impact. Apple shops in areas a part of the EU equivalent 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 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 generally known as ‘Brexit’. Apple’s UK on-line retailer nonetheless formally sells the iPhone 14 and iPhone SE (2022). In the meantime, the corporate is predicted 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 commonplace on small and medium-sized moveable electronics, additionally it is 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 units. That is stated to be in a bid to cut back the e-waste generated by completely different chargers for a number of units, allow shoppers to make sustainable selections and clear up the problem of market fragmentation.