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Apple's up-to-$500M Batterygate class-action settlement

$500M

US Federal Court

US · 2020

Status: Paid

What happened

Apple agreed to a US class-action settlement of up to $500M, roughly $25 per affected iPhone, over the same undisclosed performance throttling.

How it affected users

Millions of US iPhone owners were eligible for payments after their devices were slowed without notice.

Status timeline

  1. Mar 2, 2020

    Penalty announced.

Sources

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Cite this entry

Deepak Gupta, "Apple's up-to-$500M Batterygate class-action settlement," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2020-03-02. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/apple-us-batterygate-classaction-2020/

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