The Santa Cruz County District Attorney Jeff Rosell, alongside California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and other district attorneys, has announced a $113 million settlement against Apple.
The settlement comes after Apple was accused of making misrepresentations about iPhone batteries. It also addresses concerns over the phone’s performance being “throttled” or purposely reduced in performance, preventing the shutdown of phones with aging batteries.
Here’s the other terms of this settlement with Apple:
- Apple must maintain a prominent and accessible webpage on their website that provides clear and easily visible information to consumers about how the company manages battery performance issues, such as by throttling iPhone processing performance;
- The company must also provide a clear and easily visible notice to all affected consumers when an iOS update materially affects iPhone processing performance;
- The settlement also includes providing information in the iPhone settings menu about the consumer’s battery performance and maximum capacity as well as a notice of when a battery has experienced performance degradation of a significance that the consumer should service the battery; and
- Apple must train its consumer-facing staff regarding compliance with this injunction and the information that this injunction requires Apple to provide to consumers.
