Apple faces a $2bn fine over iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s slowdown

Briton Justin Gutman has filed a lawsuit against Apple for slowing down smartphones to extend battery life years ago. The scandal is known as batterygate.

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Apple has admitted that it slowed down the performance of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s smartphones to extend battery life. Users were not notified that their devices would last longer, not slower.

Activist Justin Gutman sued Apple last summer. The original lawsuit, on behalf of 25 million users whose smartphones started running slower, was for $900 million. A year later, the amount has grown to $2 billion.

Apple is trying to get the lawsuit thrown out. Lawyers for the US-based company have called the lawsuit "unfounded". The manufacturer said it had apologised in 2017 and offered customers a discount on replacement batteries in smartphones.

Source: Reuters