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Apple to pay $113m to settle iPhone 'batterygate'


Apple to pay $113m to settle iPhone 'batterygate'

November 20, 2020 at 8:27 AM

Apple will pay $113m (£85m) to settle allegations that it slowed down older iPhones.

Thirty-three US states claimed that Apple had done this to drive users into buying new devices.

Millions of people were affected when the models of iPhone 6 and 7 and SE were slowed down in 2016 in a scandal that was dubbed batterygate.

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