4 Macworld • April 2020NEWS
Apple to pay out $500m
to iPhone customers
affected by ‘Batterygate’
Apple has settled a class-action lawsuit over iPhone throttling,
agreeing to pay $500m to consumers. David Price reportsM
omentous news from the US, where
Apple has reportedly agreed to pay
between $310m and $500m to millions
of customers affected by the so-called
Batterygate iPhone problem.
Class-action lawsuits in the US accused Apple of
deliberately slowing down older models of iPhone
with iOS updates, in order to encourage them to