“Apple” is accused again of deliberately “choking” IPhone batteries

Apple is facing a multi-million dollar legal claim for deliberately slowing down iPhone batteries, this time from the UK.
In 2017, Apple admitted it released an update to slow down old iPhones with aging batteries, in order to prevent them from suddenly shutting down, but the new lawsuit alleges that the company did not disclose that it would intentionally throttle users’ phones before doing so, and that the company did not. It gives them the option to disable the setting, according to the British newspaper, The Guardian.
The lawsuit was brought by a consumer rights activist, Justin Guttman, at the UK Competition Appeal Court.
The complaint covers the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 and iPhone models. iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X.

Guttmann’s complaint also notes that Apple introduced the slowdown feature to hide the fact that old batteries could no longer handle new operating system updates.
“Instead of doing the honorable and legal things to its customers and offering free battery replacement, repair or compensation, Apple misled individuals by hiding a tool in software updates that slowed their devices by up to 58 percent,” Guttman said.

And if Justin Guttman wins the case, Apple may have to pay $941 million in damages to more than 25 million people who bought the affected phones in the UK.
Apple, for its part, responded to the recent British lawsuit, emphasizing that it “never – and never will – do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any of its products, or reduce the user experience to drive customer upgrades”.
And she continued, “Its goal has always been to create products that customers love, and to make iPhone devices last as long as possible.”
Earlier, Apple was fined 10 million euros in Italy for the same problem, and for failing to provide customers with the information needed to service and replace batteries.
Also in 2020, it agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle one of the US lawsuits it faced over the slowdown of the iPhone, which resulted in each affected user involved in the lawsuit receiving $25.