France has fined Apple with 25 million euros (more than 27 million dollars) for hiding from users that operating system updates reduced performance of the iPhone, inform the General Directorate of Competition, Consumption and Fraud Control.
The company accepted the agreement according to which, apart from paying the fine, it will have to publish a press release with all the information on its website in France for a month.
The updates of iOS 10.2.1 and 11.2, launched in 2017, included an energy management device that – in certain circumstances and especially when the batteries were old – slowed down the operation of Models iPhone 6, iPhone SE and iPhone 7. Because users could not return to the previous version of the operating system, “they were forced to change their batteries or even buy a new device,” says the French agency statement.
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