Apple has removed the iPhone 14, 14 Plus, and SE from sale in most EU countries due to the new EU directive requiring a common charging port.
Updated Dec. 31 with further details of availability including exactly how it will affect parts of the U.K. and comprehensive details of every EU territory. There are three iPhones in Apple ’s current range that have a Lightning connector: iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone SE 3generation. The company has taken all three off sale in 29 countries, including one that’s part of the U.K. Will other countries be affected? More details have emerged since the removal from sale on Dec. 27.
EU Directive 2022/2380 is at the heart of it all, “as the EU shifts to a common charging solution built around USB-C,” as The Verge puts it. That site checked Apple’s online stores in the Netherlands, France, Norway and Germany. Many reports simply said “most EU countries” which wasn’t comprehensive enough a verdict for my liking.So, I’ve checked the Apple online stores for Austria, Belgium, Cyprus (which only has a support site), Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The three iPhones are not visible, let alone available for purchase.Tuesday’s NHL Winter Classic Returns To Wrigley Field After 16 Years Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are slightly different. In these countries the iPhone 14 and SE are both listed still, but if you try to buy them, they reroute you to a “page not found” message. I imagine these sites will be updated to match the others in due course. This means I can confirm that all 27 countries of the EU, plus Switzerland, no longer have the iPhone 14, 14 Plus or iPhone SE available for sale. And then there’s the U.K. where it’s only partially available, as discussed below. The EU directive came into force on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. In a bid to curtail electronic waste, the EU required manufacturers to ensure that devices such as cameras, phones and tablets all used the same charging port (and therefore cable): USB-
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