You can now stake your claim in Apple’s $500 million iPhone slowdown settlement
The iPhone batterygate" saga was one of the bigger controversies that Apple has ever faced. Apple's throttling of iPhones with aging batteries prompted a class action lawsuit, and now you can register to get your chunk of the settlement that was reached earlier this year. Per MacRumors, there's now a website where US consumers who owned an affected iPhone can go to file a claim.
To meet the criteria, you must currently or have previously owned:
- An iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, and / or an iPhone SE that ran iOS 10.2.1 or later before December 21st, 2017
- An iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus that ran iOS 11.2 or later before December 21st, 2017
As part of the settlement terms, Apple agreed to pay out a maximum of $500...