The controversy was going to be served from the beginning. Three years after the launch and just a few hours after Apple discontinued the iPhone 12 from its online store France announced that prohibited the sale of the iPhone 12 for exceeding the permitted radiation levels. Since then there has only been silence from Apple and its employees who were instructed to remain silent. However, everything seems to indicate that Apple will release an update for the iPhone 12 with the aim of outlining the data that France requires, which appears to be different from that of other international organizations.
A software update for the iPhone 12 could end the sales ban in France
A few days ago Apple launched the iPhone 15, its new range of smartphones, and as a consequence discontinued the iPhone 12 from its online store to reduce the number of devices for sale. A few hours after the keynote ended it was known that France had banned the sale of iPhone 12 by emitting high levels of radiation.
The reason was unknown because the French monitoring group Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR) did not provide more information at the beginning of the matter. However, we now know that the object of the prohibition was in the specific absorption rate (SAR) of iPhone 12, a measurement that allows us to see the rate of radiation absorbed by the body of a device and apparently it was higher than allowed. All this, of course, with French regulations that were modified in 2020 that allowed these tests to be carried out differently and in different places on the body.
The solution decided by Apple is in release an update for iPhone 12 which will allow the concerns of the ANFR to be corrected, as issued in a statement through Reuters:
We will issue a software update to users in France to adapt to the protocol used by French regulators. We hope that the iPhone 12 will continue to be available in France.
We can also stay with that Apple certified the iPhone 12 against multiple international organizations, and one of the items to be evaluated was radiation standards.