Apple will pay up to $500 million for throttling iPhones

[Jacob Siegal]

Apple has been the subject of several major controversies since the first iPhone launched over a decade ago, but few have been as impactful as "batterygate," which was the name the internet adopted when we found out that Apple was throttling old iPhones to preserve battery life. That discovery led to litigation, and on Monday, Reuters reported that Apple has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle the case despite not admitting to any wrongdoing. Court documents stated that Apple agreed to the settlement in order to avoid a lengthy and potentially even more costly court battle.

As Bloomberg Law explains, dozens of class-action lawsuits were filed against Apple between December 2017 and June 2018 regarding the throttling, but the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation combined those suits in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in April 2018.

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