Submitted 8 months ago by realcaseyrollins to technology@beehaw.org
French regulators on Tuesday ordered Apple to halt sales of the iPhone 12 for emitting too much electromagnetic radiation, and to fix existing handsets.
“radiation” levels are barely outside of regulation. and france has record of testing devices more strictly than the rest of countries. my guess is Apple will appeal, it will be retested and all will be good. the same has happened before (I think 7,8 and 11, but don’t quote me on it)
All versions of the 12?
Calling it radiation gives the layman an implication that it’s dangerous i.e. ionizing radiation. This is electromagnetic radiation, just radio waves.
You don’t need iodine, this isn’t going to give you radiation sickness, but it is a little surprising.
Radio waves can still be dangerous.
I highly doubt that it was radioactive at lethal levels, but they do have these limits for a reason. People might possibly have been harmed in some fringe cases.
If there’s a recall of all older iPhones, what would happen? Would they send everyone the latest? (Honestly they should if it’s really that serious)
Holy cow…
ExLisper@linux.community 8 months ago
It’s not about health risks, it’s about interference. They will probably fix it with a firmware patch.
realcaseyrollins 8 months ago
I believe they did in fact merely ask Apple to do that