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Apple has begun sending financial compensation to customers in the United States who were affected by slowing down their iPhones because they contained old batteries, the Economic Times reports.
This follows a 2020 legal settlement after a class-action lawsuit in the United States accused Apple of secretly slowing down some iPhone releases.
Under the settlement, Apple is obligated to pay about $500 million to its affected customers, and has already begun sending compensation to customers who have previously filed claims with the company.
According to the Mac rumors website, Apple sent its eligible customers a sum of money for each device that was proven to have been affected by its software updates. The site stated that readers of it were among those who received payments of $92.17 per claim from Apple.
The lawsuit was filed in December 2017, shortly after Apple revealed it had lowered the performance cap for some iPhone models by using “chemically obsolete” batteries when necessary to prevent devices from shutting down unexpectedly.
Apple apologized for its lack of transparency and temporarily lowered the price of replacing iPhone batteries to $29 in 2018.