Apple is sending out checks for ‘batterygate’ class action claims

autotldr Bot , 6 months ago

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Checks are apparently hitting the bank accounts of people affected by Apple’s decision to slow down iPhones with older batteries back in 2017.

Indeed, the website set up for the settlement was updated in December to say the payments were expected to go out this month.

The company wasn’t upfront about the purpose of the slowdown before this, but later said the goal was to keep phones from randomly shutting down once the battery degrades beyond a certain point.

Multiple class action lawsuits cropped up, claiming the company’s actions drove people to upgrade early, rather than simply paying to have their phones’ battery replaced.

The company agreed to the settlement in 2020, and in August last year, one of the law firms representing customers in the lawsuit said a judge had cleared the last obstacle — a legal appeal — holding up the payouts, and that money would be sent soon.

At the time, the firm said that payments would be around $65, so if you filed an approved claim by October 6th, 2020, you may have a little more money than you expected coming your way soon.

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Ganbat , 6 months ago

Only from around the 6? Haven’t they been caught throttling since, like, the iPhone 3?

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 6 months ago

No, those are just generic anti Apple conspiracy theories.

This all started with a bad batch of batteries in the iphone 6 or 6s.

Ghostalmedia , 6 months ago

The questionable OS update went out on Halloween in 2016 as an update to iOS 10, then the shit storm began, that battery replacement program started, etc.

iOS 11 allowed people be notified about battery health problems and chose whether or not they wanted to throttle their CPU to preserve runtime.