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The European Union Is ABOUT To ENFORCE New Regulations Concerning The RepairBility of iPhones and iPads, this is where it should be and where it should improve. New rules will come in, adopted by the European Commission, such as Apple, to rethink some of their projects to improve the technological landscape for all European citizens. USB-C, Apple, he moved away from Lightning in favor of USB-C, a step that has become a significant improvement for end users. And Apple also facilitated the deterioration of the battery, using electricity. “Col-SM-12” Data-enchor = “Ecodesign” ID = “Ecodesign”> ecodesign
On June 16, 2023, rules were issued regarding that it was described as “requirements for ecodisent.” The rules apply to wireless phones, smartphones and Slate tablets, and the last two are used on iPhone and iPad, respectively.
The rules, as a rule, concern the environmental and energy requirements of mobile devices, including their use of electricity and their production. Most of it rotates around the support and repair of devices, so they can have as long as possible for life, not allowing them to prematurely become electronic waste.
there are exceptions to the rules, and one of them is smartphones designed for “communication with high safety.” Despite the safety of Apple, this mainly means devices intended for public use.
Another for “mobile phones and tablets with a flexible main display, which the user can turn and roll partially or completely.” This may include such items as the long -term IPhone fold, if only because the technologies associated with flexible displays are too new and, therefore, it is difficult to cope with the rules at the present time.
Although the rules were adopted in June 2023, they actually entered into force on June 20, 2025. This gives Apple the only short period of time to get your books for compliance.
The following is a list of the main regulation shots, and currently Apple is about repair and support.
Details and Repair
The first key section is the “Design for repair and re-use.” This covers a number of areas related to repair devices, including access to spare parts and manuals.
In accordance with the rules, Apple will have to make available spare parts and repair instructions for their mobile devices for professional repairmen, after seven years after they were removed from the market.
The LIST of Parts Includes:
- Batteries
- Camera Assemblies
- Audio Connectors
- Charginging Ports
- buttons
- microphones
- Speakers
- HINGE ASSMBLIES
- Mechanical Display Display mechanisms
these components also cannot be assemblies of several elements united together, with the exception of several rather logical combinations. For example, an external audio extension can be combined with an external charging port, or a microphone can be part of a loudspeaker.
These parts should be available on the website of free access to the end of the seven-year period.
Apple should continue to offer spare parts for seven years after the termination of sales-Credit for the image: Apple
Professional repairmen should also be provided with access to information about repair and maintenance for parts, again until the end of the seven -year period. “Reasonable” fees can be charged for access to the material.
there are also rules regarding the price of spare parts and even delivery speeds.
The actual repair process has rules, including how the devices should be disassembled. It encourages the use of a basic tool or commercially affordable use of a tool, re -used or replenished fasteners, as well as to perform a workshop among a workshop.
“Universal” should be able to correct some parts, such as the assembly of the display, while less complex tasks should be “capable of performing a non-professional.”
It seems that Apple is either at the point of compliance with the rules, or close to them. While the rules are devoted to maintenance through third -party repair workshops for the most part, Apple is already going beyond this.
For professionals there is an independent program of the repair supplier, which provides access to the details and repair if they meet the requirements for registration.
Then there is a self-service repair store that allows consumers to carry out their own repairs of Apple products by supplying parts and even tools. This is already a rather extensive thing for Apple to offer Apple, and in theory goes beyond the regulation.
If this fails, Apple even indicates to users in the direction of genuine distributors of parts.
for Apple to fully compliance with the rules, he simply needs to provide details and access to manuals for a seven-year period.
There are also some discussions about the replacement of the serialized parts with which Apple fought for a rather long time. However, with the expansion of the procedures of the independent repair program, this was relaxed until a certain point.
The rules still require Apple to provide access to software or firmware for using serialized parts, as well as for other repairs, if necessary. This is also not difficult for Apple, as this is just a case when they are loaded with available professional repairmen.
Durability and batteries
while the EU wants to be corrected, this will also help if the same parts can be opposed to some blows in advance.
In the section “Design for reliability”, the devices should be able to withstand various tests, covering everything from falls and scratches to dust and water and even endurance of the battery.
The fall test includes the survival of 45 falls without occasion or other protective materials at an altitude of 1 meter (3.2 feet). However, there is no mention of which surface should be reset.
the test is slightly different for folding devices, with 35 drops expected in an “unpertured state” and another 15 in “fully expanded state”.
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we do not know how strong the iPhone Apple are under these tests, and Apple does not publish this information. The company is well known for its durability testing, and documented this.
for resisting scratches is necessary for the screen to achieve a hardness level of MOS. Folded smartphones are released if they are designed to use protective foil on the display.
again, Apple does not offer measurements on this scale, but it works to enable high-strength materials where it is possible. It is known that Gorilla Glass, made by the Corning supplier, has a hardness of six or seven on a scale of ten points.
to pass the dust resistance, the devices must be protected from the input of particles more than 1 millimeter in size. They must also survive the “spray of water”.
equivalent ratings for everyone on the entry protection ratings are IP4X for testing for dust and IPX4 for water.
, given that the iPhone 16E is estimated at IP68, and other recent models have similar grades, Apple should be in order.
For the EU battery, the EU requires that the smartphones reach at least 800 cycles with a remaining capacity of at least 80%. In addition, testing for this should be in charging conditions when the charging speed is limited to the battery management system, and not an uncontrollable power source.
Manufacturers should also include an additional charging function that the user can turn on, which automatically stops the charging process by 80% of the full battery capacity. In addition, power management should have a function that, after complete charging, is not provided by further charging power in the battery, until the charge level drops below 95% of the maximum charge.
IPhone battery charging diagram in iOS
for iPhone 14 and earlier reports that its batteries are designed to hold 80% of the initial charger for 500 full cycles charge. More importantly, for the iPhone 15 and later the models are designed to do the same with 1000 cycles of charge.
Apple also has various batteries management plans that meet these criteria. Since these are also software, this is that he could develop, for example, in the future in the future IOS issue, for example, the management of AI batteries.
Operational System updates
according to the rules, manufacturers of the operating system will have to update the operating system, at least five years. After the model has stopped selling a thing in cases where the hardware no longer receives updates to the full operating system due to age, Apple still releases updates specific to security for its old operating systems.
Where Apple should be careful, is located in a section in which the update “shows a negative impact on the productivity of the device.” In such cases, the rules states that another update that provides at least the same level of performance as before the release of the update should be released “within a reasonable period of time”, except that users give a clear consent to continue the negative problem.
Apple has previous experience in this area, since Battygate saw that Apple has used an update that throttle performance in order to maintain stability in some iPhone models. As soon as this was discovered, trials were published, which was expensive to Apple.
, at least with the EU rules, it formalizes the need for Apple to avoid such problems in the future.
mostly finished
with the EU, ready to implement the rules for several weeks, we can confidently say that Apple is in a rather good position.
from the point of view of hardware, the iPhone is durable, and Apple has achieved great success to make its equipment more repair. Not only professionals, but also from end users.
, which is also applied to the software side, with its usual period of iOS updates for a long time after the sales stopped placing Apple in accordance with the EU rules.
, apparently, there is no reason why Apple cannot meet all the criteria in the rules, especially if you take into account that it had almost two years to prepare for this. The only real things that need to be worried about is any small remaining changes in politics or voids for a particular country that he must fix.
Apple can resist the regulatory change. In this case, this seems well prepared.
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