{"id":237501,"date":"2026-04-30T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/apple-to-pay-israeli-iphone-users-10m-shekels-in-battery-slowdown-settlement\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:50:08","slug":"apple-to-pay-israeli-iphone-users-10m-shekels-in-battery-slowdown-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/apple-to-pay-israeli-iphone-users-10m-shekels-in-battery-slowdown-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to pay Israeli iPhone users 10M shekels in battery slowdown settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/tech-and-digital\/article\/syr56e11cwx\">Apple to pay Israeli iPhone users 10M shekels in battery slowdown settlement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/tech-and-digital\/article\/syr56e11cwx\">https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/tech-and-digital\/article\/syr56e11cwx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-30 12:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.ynetnews.com\">www.ynetnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"7ap5m-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">The 2017 <\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"7ap5m-1-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">iPhone<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"7ap5m-2-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"> slowdown case has officially come to an end in Israel after the Tel Aviv District Court approved a settlement Thursday under which Apple will pay a total of 10 million shekels to eligible Israeli customers. The maximum compensation per eligible device will be 1,890 shekels.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"3u6v8-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">The amended settlement, approved by Judge Hadas Ovadia, was filed as part of five requests to certify class-action lawsuits that were consolidated after being submitted against Apple in 2017 and 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"919v3-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">The settlement does not constitute an admission of the claims raised in the class-action requests, all of which Apple denied. The judge wrote that \u201cafter reviewing the parties\u2019 arguments, I found that the settlement reflects an appropriate, fair and balanced solution.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"1ov2k-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Apple was accused nearly nine years ago of slowing certain iPhones through software updates in order to preserve battery life and prevent the devices from unexpectedly shutting down. The company previously allowed customers to replace batteries at a reduced price, but some users said that was not enough.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"e9mgg-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Users around the world, including in Israel, filed class-action requests against the company. Some cases abroad ended in significant settlements, including a similar class action in the United States that was approved by the federal court for the Northern District of California without any admission or acknowledgment of liability or wrongdoing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"2vkc0-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">In Israel, the applicants claimed that Apple installed software on some of its devices, through operating system updates, that slowed and disrupted the phones without users\u2019 knowledge.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"1ru7-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">They also claimed Apple concealed from users that replacing the battery could improve the device\u2019s speed, and alleged that the conduct caused customers to upgrade to newer models.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"8v3lb-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Apple strongly denied all allegations of wrongdoing and liability. The company argued that it has never done, and would never do, anything to intentionally shorten the life of any product or harm the user&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/tech-and-digital\/article\/syr56e11cwx\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple to pay Israeli iPhone users 10M shekels in battery slowdown settlement https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/tech-and-digital\/article\/syr56e11cwx Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ynet-pic1.yit.co.il\/picserver6\/crop_images\/2022\/03\/08\/r1EsPQHW5\/r1EsPQHW5_0_42_981_552_0_large.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237503,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237501\/revisions\/237503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}