The lawsuits add 24 class action charges in the United States, with the latest two filed on Thursday by Marc Honigman and Lauri Sullivan-Stefanou in New York and Ohio individually, according to computerized court records examined by News. Apple is also being prosecuted in Israel and France.
An expert from Sullivan-Stefanou’s complaint:
Update to iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone 6s owners, Apple included code into iOS 10.2.1 that intentionally slowed down the processing performance of these phones by connecting each phone’s processing speed with its battery health. Absent the code included by Apple, the degraded battery capacity of these phones would not have negatively influenced processing performance.
Many of the lawsuits charge Apple repay all iPhone users who have encountered slowdowns, offer free battery replacements, refund customers who obtained brand new iPhones to regain maximum performance and add info to iOS describing how replacing an iPhone’s battery can stop slowdowns.
The legal action comes after Apple’s vision it may at times dynamically succeed the maximum production of some older iPhone models with chemically aged series in order to prevent the devices from unexpectedly closing down, an issue that can be made worse by cold temperatures or a low charge.
Apple never stated the power management changes, which it calls a feature when it released iOS 10.2.1 approximately a year ago. A month after the software update became possible, Apple still only vaguely stated that it made “improvements” that occurred in a significant decrease in unexpected shutdowns.
Apple only announced exactly what the so-called “improvements” were after Primate Labs founder John Poole envisioned that some iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 devices suddenly had lower benchmark scores starting with iOS 10.2.1 and iOS 11.2 individually despite operating at maximum performance on previous versions.
Poole’s breakdown was in response to a Reddit user who claimed his iPhone 6s was significantly faster after patching the device’s battery. The discussion generated over 1,000 comments and strengthened an opinion held by some that Apple purposefully slows down older iPhones so consumers buy newer ones.
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