How would you like to get some cash from Apple? If you owned or still have one of half a dozen older iPhone models, you can actually do it. And you should In fact, you deserve it.
As part of a proposed settlement on the company’s controversy, in which it deliberately prevented the older chips from reaching full processing capacity under certain conditions, the company agreed to make payments totaling up to $ 500 million in total. Depending on the number of claims filed, this should break down up to $ 25 per claimant, which you should definitely collect if you qualify.
So who qualifies?
Do you have or had an iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, or iPhone SE running iOS 10.2.1 or later before December 21, 2017? Then you are qualified.
Did you own an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus with iOS 11.2 or later before December 21, 2017? Then you also qualify!
All you have to do is file your claim on. You only need the serial number of your device. If you no longer have the phone, no problem. You are still entitled to money. The site can search for the serial number based on your Apple ID, name, and address.
If you were the owner of more than one of those devices, you can file a claim for each device and get up to $ 25 for each. All claims must be submitted by October 6, 2020.
A lot has happened since Batterygate was the big scandal, so here’s a quick review.
In late 2016, Apple was embroiled in controversy after it was discovered that the company was secretly slowing down some users’ phones. Some iPhones would even shutdown well before reaching zero percent battery life.
At the time, the company said that iOS was programmed to do this in order to preserve battery health on some phones. Apple also said some of the problems were due to a defect from the battery manufacturer. If you remember, during 2018, Apple was offering a reduced price for users with these iPhone models.
Critics of Apple’s throttling mechanism hit the company for failing to inform users that this was happening or to allow consumers to control whether they wanted to enable or disable this setting. Apple even received fines in countries like and on Batterygate. they were against the company because of the controversy as well.
Apple previously apologized for the Batterygate problem. However, at least for me, the best apology now comes in the form of real cash.
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