Apple fined €25M over undisclosed iPhone throttling
€25M
≈ $27M at the time
DGCCRF
France · 2020
Status: Final
What happened
France's DGCCRF fined Apple for failing to tell consumers that iOS updates could slow older iPhones to manage aging batteries, part of the wider Batterygate episode.
How it affected users
Users experienced degraded performance and, unaware of the cause, some replaced phones unnecessarily.
Status timeline
Feb 7, 2020
Penalty announced.
Sources
Note on sourcing
The DGCCRF settled this by transaction rather than a published decision, and its 2020 press release is no longer available at a stable public URL (the economie.gouv.fr domain blocks automated access and the page is not in the Internet Archive). The Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor record is used instead as the most authoritative accessible account.
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "Apple fined €25M over undisclosed iPhone throttling," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2020-02-07. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/apple-france-batterygate-2020/