“Batterygate”
The settlement puts a punctuation mark on what became known as “Batterygate.”
In 2016, iPhone 6s owners began complaining that their phones suddenly shut down despite having plenty of battery life remaining. Apple eventually responded by admitting that a “very small number” of iPhone 6s had an issue with their batteries and offering free battery replacements to those models. Then, owners of other iPhone models claimed that their devices were having similar shutdown issues, and that the problem was more widespread than Apple would admit. Apple responded with a software update that reduced the number of shutdowns significantly.