Claim for £750m against Apple launched over alleging battery ‘throttling’

Consumer champion Justin Gutmann alleges older iPhones made slower to cope with software updates

Apple is facing a multimillion-pound legal claim that could reimburse millions of iPhone owners over a secret decision to slow down older phones in 2017.

An undocumented battery management system, released in a software update in January that year, slowed down the performance of older iPhones in order to stop them shutting down without warning. But Apple didn't give users the option to disable the setting, and did not warn them that their phones were being throttled" deliberately.