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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Martyn Landi

iPhone batteries: Legal action seeks damages for 25 million users over battery ‘throttling’

Apple is facing a legal claim (PA) (Picture: PA Archive)

A consumer champion has launched a more than £750 million legal claim against Apple, linked to an incident in 2017 around a power management tool on older iPhone models.

Justin Gutmann has accused the tech giant of slowing down the performance of iPhone handsets – a process known as “throttling” – by hiding a power management tool in software updates to combat performance issues and stop older devices from shutting down suddenly.

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