UK reconsidering USB-C charger mandate, after everyone else has already shifted

The new UK government is considering reversing its predecessor's refusal to adopt the EU USB-C charger mandate, while Apple holds its breath for the future of the iPhone.


Just over a year before the UK's long-standing Conservative government was voted out of office in mid-2024, it made one of its many anti-European Union moves. It declared that it would not copy the EU's USB-C common charger standard.

The official wording included the phrase "so there," but out of all such declarations, this was the smallest and also the easiest. It was small because the UK had other concerns, that's entirely why the government was trying to distract people by looking as if they were taking action on something.


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