Lawsuit filed in Britain against Apple company on Al-Khamis is seeking 750 million pounds ($918 million). in compensation for iPhone owners accuse the company of creating Updates that secretly slowed down Older models.
Consumer Rights Champion Justin Guttman says Apple “choke” performance of Older iPhones after users installed upgrades they were told would improve performance of the device.
He claims that Apple never told users that a file update can slow down device and that the tool was introduced to hide a file inability of Older iPhone batteries to deal with with demands of newer operating systems.
Apple said in a statement that “we have never, and will never, do anything to intentionally shorten life of Any Apple product, or degrade the user experience to drive customer promotions.
“Our goal we’ve always been creating products that our customers love, making iPhones last as long possible important part of thats” it added.
Gottman’s claim with Competition Court of Appeal seeks damages for 25 Million iPhone Users Tone of 768 million pounds.
The complaint revolves around a power Management tool included in A 2017 software update slowed down down Older iPhone models And prevent sudden shutdowns during their struggle with overhead of a new operating system.
Gottman says Apple never told users that a file update It can slow down the user device He claims that the tool was introduced for prevention costly Repairs or recalls.
“While that of Do the honorable and legal thing by their customers and provide free replacement or repair service or compensationapple instead mislead people Via Hide Tool in software Updates that slowed down their devices by up to 58%,” Gottman said.
“I am launching this case so that I can millions of iPhone users across the UK will receive compensation for The damage done by Apple’s actions.”
Apple apologized at the time and said it would replace the batteries at a low cost price will allow Users in turn off The power Manual management tool.
She has faced Legal action in many of countries over The issue and agreed to pay up to $500 million to its owners of Older models in United State in 2020.
The French authorities imposed a fine on group 25 million euros in The same year for Don’t warn that updates may slow down down Older models.
Seeking claim compensation for friends of iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, SE, 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus, iPhone X models.