Each user received compensation from Apple of 660 yuan.

Apple has finally begun to pay compensation to users in the "Battery Gate" case.

After more than three years of waiting, in December last year, the official website of the “Battery Gate” settlement released the latest updates on the case.

The announcement shows that the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Apple’s last appeal in the “Battery Gate” lawsuit.

According to the settlement agreement, Apple will pay between US$310 and US$500 million, depending on the number of claims, to compensate affected users.

It is understood that the effective date of this settlement agreement is November 6, and Apple will most likely start distributing the compensation in January this year.

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The official website of the "Battery Gate" settlement emphasized the specific conditions of this compensation, which will mainly be based on the user's model and the system it is running.

This includes iPhone 6 / 6 Plus / 6s / 6s Plus / SE models running iOS 10.2.1 and later before December 21, 2017.

At the same time, iPhone 7 models in the United States, as well as iPhone 7 Plus models running iOS 11.2 and newer systems before December 21, 2017, can receive this compensation.

Currently, according to feedback on social platforms, many users involved in this lawsuit have received compensation from Apple.

@Michael Burkhardt said that he has received 6 compensations in the amount of 92.17 US dollars (about 660 yuan) because he has 6 qualifying devices in his hands.

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As soon as the news came out, related topics quickly became hot searches on Weibo, triggering extensive discussions.

Let’s briefly review the “Battery Gate” incident.

The cause of the incident dates back to 2017. Netizens on Reddit, a well-known foreign forum, discovered that the running speed of their iPhone 6s increased significantly after replacing the battery.

According to the comparison of the benchmarks released by the netizen, the performance gap between the two is quite obvious. Replacing the new battery almost doubled the improvement.

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As the news continues to deepen, Apple’s operation of quietly reducing the performance of devices with aging batteries has gradually been made public.

Users affected by the issue took Apple directly to court and reached a settlement in 2020.

At the same time, Apple apologized to users around the world and launched a cheaper battery replacement policy. Users can replace the iPhone battery through official website channels at a lower price.

Although Apple has not acknowledged the "frequency reduction" statement so far, with the addition of the iOS battery health function, this "hidden mechanism" has been made public in disguise.

For users, this is undoubtedly a very exciting rights protection victory.

For Apple, this incident also sounded a wake-up call.

Of course, although domestic users are currently out of the loop for compensation, “Battery Gate” has also made Apple pay more and more attention to the battery health of iPhones.

The most intuitive thing is the optimized battery charging function added by Apple in iOS 13. By learning the user’s daily charging habits, it will postpone charging the iPhone to more than 80% and slow down the aging of the battery.

At the same time, Apple has also added an 80% upper limit function to the iPhone 15 series models, which can also effectively protect battery health.

In short, I hope Apple can fully learn its lesson and add more new features to optimize battery health and charging in future system updates.

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