Apple’s iPhone 17 Air, which is planned to release next year, can be the finest iPhone so far. In the recent reports, Apple’s first iPhone, which is not a completely port, said that he had given up this idea.
 
Behind this decision was thought to be the EU’s USB-C obligation. However, contrary to what is considered, the EU officials announced that an iPhone without a contact is actually completely legal. Well, what’s the truth? Here are the details!

Why did Apple have to switch to USB-C?

Apple has been using the Lightning port that it has developed for many years on iPhone models. However, the European Union put into effect the arrangement of the Common Charging Device Directive in order to reduce electronic wastes. With this law, different charging ports used in different devices bring additional costs to consumers and create unnecessary electronic waste, on the grounds that the producers should be transferred to a common charging standard.

The transition to the USB-C has brought some changes for Apple. MacBook and iPad models were actually used, but the iPhone still had a Lightning contact. With the prestige of 2025, the law stopped the sale of the iPhone SE and iPhone 14, the latest models with Lightning port, as the law will enter into force.

Compared to the resulting information, Apple thought to remove the USB-C contact in the iPhone 17 Air model, but EU arrangements could cause problems. EU officials, on the other hand, announced that a device has no obligation to use USB-C if a wired charging basis of a device within the scope of the common charging device directive.

The European Council has announced that it has been working to spread and become standard of wireless charging technologies. Apple contributed to the creation of the Qi2 standard by sharing Magsafe charging technology with Wireless Power Consortium. These developments, only wireless charging supplements, a completely contact point of an iPhone in Europe is not up for sale in Europe said.

Apple’s iPhone 17 Air model will maintain the USB-C contact, but in the coming years, a model that does not have a completely contact point is inevitable to launch a model. It was emphasized that EU arrangements did not form a device for the sale of a device. In the future, it was possible to switch to iPhone models based on wireless charging and information transfer only by removing wired contacts in the future.