Finalfine · Consumer-protection (deceptive practice)
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
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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/