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Apple to pay $113m to settle iPhone ‘batterygate’ – BBC News
The lawsuit argued the iPhone-maker slowed down device performance to make users buy newer models.
By James ClaytonNorth America technology reporter
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Apple will pay $113m (£85m) to settle allegations that it slowed down older iPhones.
Thirty-three US states claimed that Apple had done this to drive users into buying new devices.
Millions of people were affected when the models of iPhone 6 and 7 and SE were slowed down in 2016 in a scandal that was dubbed batterygate.
Apple declined to comment, however, it has previously said the phones were…
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