Skip to content
Finalfine · Consumer-protection law

Apple fined €10M over iPhone water-resistance claims

€10M

$10.8M at the time

Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato

Italy · 2020

Status: Final

What happened

Italy's AGCM fined Apple for misleading marketing about iPhone water resistance and for refusing warranty service on water-damaged phones.

How it affected users

Users were denied repairs for the kind of damage the marketing implied could not happen.

Status timeline

  1. Nov 30, 2020

    Penalty announced.

Sources

Last verified 2026-07-02. Spotted an error? Report a correction.

Cite this entry

Deepak Gupta, "Apple fined €10M over iPhone water-resistance claims," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2020-11-30. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/apple-italy-water-2020/