Do you have an iPhone 6, 7, 8 or iPhone X? Or one of the variants? So maybe thanks to the lawsuit Apple can compensate you for ‘choking’ your phone’s battery. And Apple has been embroiled in a lawsuit brought in the UK that could benefit certain old iPhone users in Spain.

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Justin Gutmann, a resident of the UK, has filed a lawsuit against the folks in Cupertino, accusing them of deliberately slowing down older iPhones in this range. He did, moreover, completely secret, apply updates with power management systems that Apple doesn’t warn you about.

This system will be responsible for severely limiting the performance of this iPhone to avoid not only throttling issues, but this device too will die suddenly. The system is not well documented by the company, and a class action lawsuit filed by Gutmann could benefit 25 million users worldwide.

Slowdown on iPhone

It all started in 2017, when Apple quietly decided to slow down the oldest phone in its catalog by including it in its updates undocumented battery management system. These are responsible for slowing down the phones so they won’t turn off and the user knows absolutely nothing about it.

Even more; users do not have the option to disable this new setting and they are not aware that their phone is being ‘restricted’. Gutmann believes that Apple’s decision to slow down this phone was not disclosed in a timely manner and was launched to hide that the battery that is in this device they are not sufficient for the demands of today’s users.

Instead of introducing a recall or battery replacement program, Gutmann believes Apple is encouraging users to install these updates knowing that performance will degrade. He also believes that, at the very least, Apple should have warned its users about this update, explaining that their performance would be affected by it.

For this reason, Justin Gutmann has appealed to the UK Competition Court to initiate from class action On behalf of all iPhone users affected by this update. If successful, benefited users, including Spaniards, can step up to 25 million. No less, because all iPhones include from iPhone 6 to iPhone X, including its variants.

The lawsuit alleges that Apple took advantage of its privileged position at the commercial level to explain to them that updates to software since a long time ago will improve your battery performance, when the results are reversed. Gutmann and his team of lawyers predict that, if they win the case, the fine will increase to 896 million euros or the same, 768 million pounds.

This is not the first time

Apple has been completely immersed in legal cases for years from organizations and users around the world regarding this situation. In fact, it has been forced paying millions of dollars in fines to thousands of Americans due to the iOS 10 update, which is precisely what caused this failure.

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In fact, Spain was also involved; Consumer and User Organizations have been battling the guys from Cupertino since 2020, accusing them of planned obsolescence. He makes the same argument that Gutmann uses now: that Apple wants, with this update, hide this device battery problem, ‘force’ them to update.

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