It was suggested at the end of last year and a few weeks ago the bureaucracy was progressing around it. But now the decision is made: the European Union has approved obliging companies to the batteries of your mobile electronic devices are removable and interchangeable from 2027.
It’s not just a blow for the iPhone: all mobile device manufacturers will have to adapt to this new regulation. It will be part of the Union’s main objective, which is to monitor and regulate the entire battery cycle in order to minimize emissions and ensure maximum reuse.
Say goodbye to technicians to change the battery
if we get great It must be said: Apple already allows consumers to change the batteries themselves. But of course, you have to deposit a fortune in bail, you have to wait for the arrival of two huge suitcases full of complicated machines… it’s not something everyone can do.
What we want is for anyone to be able to do it in a simple way. We can’t go back to the classic drums of Removablebut yes there would be changes so that changing the battery of an iPhone does not depend on an authorized technician
At the moment it is something that remains ambiguous with the decision of the European Union: they ask that the battery be “removable and interchangeable” but technically in the case of the iPhone it is already the case. It will have to be specified, but it seems that Apple (and the rest of the manufacturers) are going to have to do some engineering efforts and adapt to this change while maximizing the benefits of more “tight” designs
Let’s look at it this way: the iPhone 19 may have a battery that we can easily change, going to the Apple Store only to buy the replacement and hand in the used one for recycling.
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