Apple Is PURPOSELY Slowing Your Phone Down – And People Are Fighting Back!

Do you have an older iPhone?

Have you noticed it getting slower?

No – it’s not just “aging” – Apple has purposely been slowing down old phones to make you buy a new one.

Shaaaaaady stuff, if you ask me.
According to this:

Apple is facing several class action lawsuits, just days after it admitting it deliberately slows down old iPhone models.

But they’re saying it’s to your benefit…

On Wednesday, the firm admitted it slows down phones to extend their life and stop them from shutting down as batteries age and become less effective.

Some customers are unhappy the company has been less than transparent about the performance throttling feature, which they see as a ploy to drive sales of new handsets.

If this was really meant to benefit consumers, should they not have been warned? Or given the option to turn this “feature” on and off?

Yeah. People aren’t buying it. So they’re suing.

Stefan Bogdanovich and Dakota Speas from Los Angeles have filed a lawsuit with the US District Court for the Central District of California.

They are accusing Apple of interfering with their devices without consent.

The pair are trying to get the case certified to cover all people in the United States who owned an Apple phone older than the iPhone 8.

Their application for the lawsuit states: ‘Plaintiffs and Class Members never consented to allow Defendants to slow their iPhones.

‘As a result of Defendant’s wrongful actions, Plaintiffs and Class Members had their phone slowed down, and thereby it interfered with Plaintiffs’ and Class Members’ use or possession of their iPhones.’

Have an iPhone older than 8? This applies to you.

But this isn’t the ONLY lawsuit… and the other one assumes shadier dealings.

A second lawsuit, filed by five plaintiffs in the Northern District of the State of Illinois, accuses Apple of deliberately keeping its power management features under wraps to persuade people to upgrade to newer devices.

‘Apple’s iOS updates purposefully neglected to explain that its purposeful throttling down of older model devices and resulting lost or diminished operating performance could be remedied by replacing the batteries of these devices,’ the lawsuit states.

‘Instead, Apple’s decision to purposefully slowdown or throttle down these devices was undertaken to fraudulently induce consumers to purchase the latest iPhone versions of the iPhone 7, as well as new phones such as the iPhone 8 and iPhone X .’

Yup. That’s what it sounds like to me, too.

Apple has released a statement:

In a statement sent to MailOnline, a spokesman for Apple said: ‘Our goal is to deliver the best experience for customers, which includes overall performance and prolonging the life of their devices.

‘Lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current demands when in cold conditions, have a low battery charge or as they age over time, which can result in the device unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic components.

‘Last year we released a feature for iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE to smooth out the instantaneous peaks only when needed to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down during these conditions.

‘We’ve now extended that feature to iPhone 7 with iOS 11.2, and plan to add support for other products in the future.’

I dunno, man. I don’t think they should choose to do this to your device. I think YOU should.