Millions of Apple Users to be paid in $500M iPhone settlement
Apple will pay out between $310 million and $500 million in settlement to nearly 3 million users of pre-2018 iPhones. According to a statement from lawyers for Apple customers, the payouts will go to affected users who filed claims against the tech giant in 2020 for the notorious “batterygate” issue. Apple to pay $500 million to customers in class-action lawsuit after being caught intentionally slowing down older iPhones. pic.twitter.com/JGFpzMJlEI — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) August 17, 2023 The class action was filed back in 2018. In 2019, the Court ruled on Apple’s motion to dismiss and allowed several claims in the litigation to move forward. This included violation of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, California’s Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, California’s Unfair Competition Law, and Trespass to Chattels. Apple was accused of purposely slowing down older iPhone models during that period. Hence, convincing users to upg...