Apple has reached an agreement to pay over $ 500 million to simultaneously remove class action lawsuits there he was accused of slowing down the old iPhone United States Each affected user will receive $ 25.
This amount may increase or decrease slightly depending on legal fees and the additional number of cases, so the picture to be paid by Apple is when we place between 300 and 500 million.
The agreement is concerning current and former American users for iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone SE with iOS 10.2.1 or later or iOS 11.2 or later iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, which will run these versions of iOS before December 21, 2017.
An agreement reached by Apple with representatives of the trial phase should be finalized by United States Judge Edward J. Dávila on April 3, 2020. The case was filed in December 2017, shortly after Apple's announcement of the filing. the function automatically reduces the performance of the iPhone When the battery pack is not in good condition, to prevent the terminal from closing.
Defendant claims that this has been one of the biggest frauds in history. The functionality was introduced in iOS 10.2.1, but it has not been officially announced in the renewal notes, only to mention that the system has been upgraded to avoid unexpected closures.
Apple was forced to disclose this functionality when Primete Labs founder John Pole would do otherwise performance tests on iPhone 6 and iPhone 7, battery-based tests vary widely.
With iOS 11.3, Apple introduced a new feature that lets users check the battery status at all times, a management system that we can use or operate manually.
