iPhone will feature USB-C charging port, says Apple executive - Sky News

The iPhone volition determination to a USB-C connector successful compliance with caller EU requirements for tiny electronics.

Apple enforcement Greg Joswiak announced the institution has "no choice" but to travel the EU decree arsenic it does each section laws worldwide.

The European Parliament voted successful favour of caller rules earlier this month, which necessitate each mobile phones, tablets, cameras and different tiny devices sold successful the EU to beryllium equipped with a USB-C charging larboard by the extremity of 2024.

The propulsion for this standardisation aims to trim e-waste and simplify beingness for consumers.

Asked astir the caller rulings astatine a Wall Street Journal exertion league successful California, Mr Joswiak said: "Obviously we'll person to comply, we person nary choice."

But helium suggested Apple is not wholly pleased with the decision, arguing it volition summation e-waste arsenic millions of existing iPhone users, who person Lightning cables arsenic their existent connector, volition beryllium near with nary usage for the cablegram aft the switch.

He told the league helium thinks "the attack would've been amended environmentally and amended for our customers to not person a authorities beryllium that prescriptive".

The iPhone is presently the lone large smartphone to not already usage USB-C. Many of Apple's different devices already enactment the connector.

Mr Joswiak did not specify erstwhile the transportation volition beryllium introduced to the iPhone, stating lone "the Europeans are the ones dictating timing for European customers".

When asked whether Apple volition lone adhd the USB-C larboard to phones sold wrong the EU, the Apple enforcement refused to answer.

The UK appears improbable to travel the EU's determination astir a communal charging cable, with the authorities stating successful June it is not presently considering implementing a akin rule.