Apple to Pay $500 Million to Settle ‘BatteryGate’ Lawsuit

Mar. 3, 2020

France’s consumer fraud group earlier last month imposed a 25 million-euros fine on Apple for deliberately slowing down certain older iPhone models. The Directorate-General for Competition, Consumption and the Suppression of Fraud (DGCCRF), which is part of the country’s economy ministry, concluded that Apple had failed to inform users that iOS updates to older iPhones could slow down their devices.

“We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologize,”Apple had said in a statement. Apple alsoreduced the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacementby $50 from $79 to $29 for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needed to be replaced.