Apple is mailing out payments to iPhone users who successfully filed a claim for a piece of the $500 million “Batterygate” settlement.
Are you old enough to remember “Batterygate?” After some iPhone users complained in 2016 that their handsets were shutting down for no apparent reason, Apple released iOS 10.2.1 in January 2017. But it wasn’t until December 2017 that Apple revealed how the update throttled the clock speeds of the CPU cores used by the chipsets found in certain iPhone models. As a result, these phones were running at slower speeds following the update.
The whole “Batterygate” affair started when affected iPhone units with weak batteries could not generate the required energy from the batteries to allow the processor to handle certain complex tasks.
