UPDATE 1-Apple to provide Iphone 12 software update in France to settle radiation row

Reuters · 09/15/2023 08:19
UPDATE 1-Apple to provide Iphone 12 software update in France to settle radiation row

Adds Apple's statement

By Elizabeth Pineau


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Apple said on Friday it would issue a software update for iPhone 12 users in France, in what seemed to offer a way out of a row with French regulators which had ordered the
suspension of the phone's sale
due to breaches of radiation exposure limits.


"We will issue a software update for users in France to accommodate the protocol used by French regulators. We look forward to iPhone 12 continuing to be available in France," Apple said in a statement.


"This is related to a specific testing protocol used by French regulators and a safety concern," it said.

The French ANFR regulator is preparing to rapidly test this software update, which would eventually bring the model into compliance with European standards applied in France, and lift the marketing withdrawal, French Digital Affairs Minister Jean Noel Barrot's ministry said in a statement.


(Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau, Writing by Dominique Vidalon, Ingrid Melander, editing by Tassio Hummel)

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