Last month, the European Council (EC) approved Parliament’s common charger legislation requiring that electronic devices must have a USB-C charging port. And that includes the iPhone. Today, according to Cult of Mac, the EC decided that the new rule will take effect on December 28th, 2024. So that means that while Apple could replace the Lightning port with a USB-C port on next year’s iPhone 15 series, it won’t be required to do so by the EC until it launches the iPhone 17 presumably in September 2025.
