Almost a class action against Apple. 8 complaints have been filed in various US federal courts between California, New York and Illinois, accusing Apple of defrauding iPhone users by slowing down devices without warning them, in order to compensate for the poor battery performance. A move that would have pushed the same consumers, convinced that the problem was the processor, to buy new smartphones. The company first acknowledged in detail last week that operating system updates released since "last year" for the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone SE and iPhone 7 included a feature aimed at reducing power delivery. from cold, old or low-power batteries. In the absence of this corrective, the apple company explained, smartphones would have suddenly shut down. According to a document presented in San Francisco, however, "the inability of the batteries to handle the demand created by the processor" in the absence of the adjustment to software level would be a flaw. "Rather than cure the battery defect by providing a free replacement battery for all affected iPhones, Apple has tried to mask the defect," the same grievance reads. Some of the causes, in essence, are based on the fact that if users could have blamed the old processors for the app crashes and slowdowns, thus deciding to buy a new phone, while the problem could have been caused by the battery, replaceable at a fraction of the cost.
