{"id":394094,"date":"2025-09-03T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394094\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:30:12","slug":"apple-to-lower-iphone-12-radio-power-across-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394094\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to lower iPhone 12 radio power across EU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PARIS, Sept 2 \u2014 Apple will update software on iPhone 12 handsets across the EU to lower the power of their radio transmitters, it said yesterday, after Brussels confirmed the device does not meet health standards.<\/p>\n<p>The software update, scheduled \u201cin the coming weeks\u201d across the EU, is in line with a 2023 change made to the phones in France based on testing by its ANFR radio frequency authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to disagree with the French ANFR\u2019s testing approach, (but) respect the European Commission\u2019s decision,\u201d Apple said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers can use their iPhone 12 with full confidence, just as they always have\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ANFR ordered iPhone 12 sales halted in September 2023 over excessive electromagnetic emissions absorbed by the human body when the device is held in the hand.<\/p>\n<p>Apple quickly released an update to correct the effect, but applied it only in France.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission confirmed the ANFR\u2019s findings and subsequent steps in an August 19 decision published yesterday in its Official Journal, calling them \u201cjustified\u201d. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS, Sept 2 \u2014 Apple will update software on iPhone 12 handsets across the EU to lower the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[136313,136312,136316,136314,136315,136311,547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-394094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-anfr-radio-frequency-authority","9":"tag-apple-electromagnetic-emissions","10":"tag-brussels-health-standards-compliance","11":"tag-european-commission-decision","12":"tag-france-iphone-12-sales-halt","13":"tag-iphone-12-eu-software-update","14":"tag-mobile","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115139433241243287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}