What is MFI?
Apple MFi certification (apple "Made for iPhone/iPod/iPad") is an identification license for Apple Inc.'s external accessories manufactured by its authorized accessory manufacturers.
1. Certification
The prominent logo of the certified products on the market is the Apple MFi license logo with the following black text on the front of the package.
Apple allows licensees to print license labels on product packaging. These logos, which are designed by Apple Inc., are very strict in their use and are extremely demanding. The pass rate of certification is only 2%. In order to maintain the product life cycle, To ensure the brand image, Apple requires authorized accessories to ensure that their quality and taste are consistent with themselves.
Moreover, the authorized product is also certified after multiple tests. In any case, the product design, product quality, and product compatibility with MFi Apple certified accessories can provide consumers with more credibility in quality assurance than other uncertified accessories. Protection.
The ability to apply for and successfully obtain MFi licenses has also become a hallmark of Apple's component manufacturers and design companies in their technology and quality.
Apple has clear and mandatory requirements for all authorized distributors. For Apple's functional accessories, it is necessary to sell certified and authorized branded accessories. Otherwise, the use of products without authorized accessories will cause damage to Apple products. Apple will No warranty is given.
2. Certified security
Anyone who knows Apple devices knows that non-certified Apple accessories will pop up a warning prompt when connected, and even convert to flight mode directly, indicating that non-certified accessories can not be combined with Apple products, and will affect the normal use of Apple products. If you use no prompts to make a seamless connection, play songs normally, transfer data normally, and synchronize data, it is the certified product.
3. Code of Conduct
Apple is committed to ensuring that supply chain factories provide a safe working environment, that workers are respected and that they are environmentally responsible during the manufacturing process. Apple's suppliers must comply with the laws, regulations, and laws of the country in which they operate.
This Supplier Code of Conduct is based on internationally recognized standards and provides more specific regulations for improving corporate social and environmental responsibility. Apple requires its suppliers to implement the standard through the management system described below. Apple's Supplier Code of Conduct draws on and includes some of the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct (EICC). In the development of this standard, reference is made to recognized standards such as the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Social Responsibility International (SAI) and Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI).