Italy plans to ask Apple to upgrade iPhone 12 software in country -govt source

A man poses with an Apple iPhone 12 in a mobile phone store in Nantes, France, September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy plans to ask Apple to issue a software update for iPhone 12 users in the country, according to a government source, after the U.S. company offered to make similar changes in France to end a row with regulators there over breaches of radiation exposure limits.

(Reporting by Elvira Pollina in Milan; writing by Josephine Mason; editing by Jason Neely)