{"id":205843,"date":"2022-10-27T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=205843"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:22:07","slug":"iphone-users-new-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/iphone-users-new-chargers\/","title":{"rendered":"It looks like iPhone users will soon need to buy new chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The EU recently announced legislation that is designed to facilitate interoperability between tech devices. It legislates that all consumer technology devices in the EU need to have USB Type-C charging ports<\/strong>. As the EU represents such a huge market for consumer technology devices, this basically means that manufacturers everywhere have to follow this rule, unless they want to make different devices for different regions. As this new rule will mostly affect Apple and its proprietary Lightning Cable<\/strong>, we\u2019ve all been waiting to hear the company\u2019s response and it now looks like we have one.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Greg Joswiak, who is Apple\u2019s senior vice president of worldwide marketing <\/strong>recently gave an interview<\/a> with The Wall Street Journal in which he discussed the new EU regulation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the interview, Joswiak stated that Apple will obviously have to comply<\/strong> with the new EU law and introduce USB-C charging ports into its devices such as iPhones and iPads. However, he was also very cagey about when Apple will start complying with it<\/strong> and he also refused to comment on where Apple will be shipping out new USB-C iPhones<\/strong>, leaving the door open to a future that has two distinct iPhone models that use different charging cables. You can check out the interview below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apple\u2019s Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak (@gregjoz<\/a>) join @JoannaStern<\/a> at #WSJTechLive<\/a> to discuss products, privacy and power at the tech giant https:\/\/t.co\/fNo2JGwMB4<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/aGrTlZrUo4<\/a><\/p>— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 26, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>