Six months after Launch of the iPhone 16Rumors begin to understand what Apple has in store for us in September, when the company should announce its flagship product of 2025 phones. At the top of the list, and directly in fashion, could be a Air iPhone 17Which could not only be superhin but also free from load ports.
A Obstacle perceived Making an iPhone without port was the possibility that European Union regulations could make it impossible, due to rules around universal chargers. This is not the case, like 9TO5MAC reported Today and confirmed CNET. According to the spokesperson for the European Commission, Federica Miccoli, Apple is free to make an iPhone without port which could be loaded only using a wireless Magsafe charger. The company did not respond to a request for a comment on the question of making an iPhone without a load port.
If you have been a iphone User for longer than last year, there is no doubt that you will remember the lightning cable now disappeared. Apple was forced to Abandon its owner load technology For the iPhone due to the EU rules which entered into force last year, which dictated that all small portable electronics with charging ports should be compatible with the same type of charger: USB-C.
This does not mean a device must However, be USB-C compatible. The directives published by the European Commission last year on its joint charge directive said that companies sell phones and other devices that can only be recharged via wireless load methods. There can therefore be a wired charger to govern them all, but Apple can completely withdraw if he chooses.
But will it be? It is possible, but probably not – and for several reasons, starting with the current design priorities of the company.
“I always felt like I had an iPhone without ports or buttons was the end of the ultimate game when Jony Ive was at the top of Apple,” Wood said. “Its minimalist approach to product development has seen Apple remove the home button and the SIM card slit in the United States, where the iPhone is only available with ESIM now.” This has changed since the departure of IVE, however, added Wood, pointing to the addition of the camera control button on the iPhone 16.
If anything, recent iPhones, with their voluminous camera modules, were less elegant than their previous counterparts. And although phones have obtained always thinner this yearAt a certain point, phone manufacturers are limited by the fact that the minimum size of the USB-C port is 2.6 mm. No matter how much they are able to flatten the rest of the entrails of a phone, there is no way to compress this port.
This does not mean that Apple would not want to return to the minimalist design trends of IVE if the technological breakthroughs allowed it, but at the moment, it is ready to make small compromises to prioritize functionality, including higher cameras.
And even with the load of Magsafe available, the USB-C port still plays an often of vital importance for the iPhone. It’s not just about loading either. Live data transfers or software updates sometimes fail, and when this happens, there is no substitute to connect your iPhone to your laptop. Without this port, you do not have a backup when other flop methods, which could make your device by more than $ 1,000 a metal and glass plate beautifully thin but functionally useless.
“It is difficult to believe that any business would seek to remove this short -term port, given its need for loading and access to the root devices in the event of a software failure,” said Wood.
An iPhone without load ports seems desirable in theory – the transparent design, combined with (probably) better resistance to water and dust. But unless Apple has a certain technological magic in its sleeve which allows it to overcome the potential drawbacks, it seems unlikely that we will see an iPhone without USB-C of any time.
