The new iPhone 16 lineup will not be coming with the iconic Apple Sticker as Apple moves towards a more environmentally conscious direction. This will affect only purchases made online or purchases that require a home delivery. Customers can still request the sticker while making a purchase in-store.

Third-party retailers such as Amazon will not have an Apple Sticker to include in the iPhone 16 box. The retail box for the iPhone 16 will hereby only contain the actual iPhone itself, a USB-C to USB-C cable and a SIM card ejector pin (For customers in India).

The removal of the stickers was previously done with the release of the M4 iPad Pro and the M2 iPad Air. This has most likely started Apple's decision to remove the inclusion of the Apple sticker.

Apple Sticker Re.moval: Reasons behind the removal

This move by Apple comes as a result of Apple's commitment towards obtaining a carbon-neutral status by the year 2030. It is one of Apple's environmental strategies and the company is expected to include more environmentally friendly decisions in the future. Furthermore, Apple has stated that it would manufacture all its packaging in fibre. So this means that all packaging including that of the recently released iPhone 16 will have packaging made fully out of fibre.

The last iPhone model to have two Apple stickers was the iPhone 11. The iPhone 11 included the full set of standard accessories including a power adapter, USB cable, stickers and EarPods. Nowadays, an iPhone box lacks most of these amenities. Apple gradually committed these inclusions including the EarPods, adapters and now the stickers.

Apple's decision to reduce the amount of in-box inclusions has been credited to the company's move to reduce environmental impact. Other smartphone companies also followed in Apple's footsteps by removing certain inclusions from the box.

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