The UK’s Court of Appeal has rejected Apple’s request to dismiss a $1 billion lawsuit over cutting the performance of an iPhone 6 and other models with chemically depleted batteries.
An iPhone battery
Consumer rights activist Justin Gutmann filed his case in 2022, through the UK’s equivalent of a US class action lawsuit. According to a statement to AppleInsider from Gutmann’s legal team, Apple’s attempts to get the case dismissed on appeal have now failed.
“[The UK] Court of Appeal has given the go-ahead for the so-called ‘Batterygate’ lawsuit — a collective action brought on behalf of millions of UK users, which accuses Apple of intentionally ‘throttling’ iPhone batteries,” says the statement. “Apple will now be forced to defend itself in court, after it tried but failed to get the 853 million pounds [$1.1 billion] claim thrown out.”