Apple accused of rendering old iPhone chargers inoperative

Another day, another lawsuit coming to Apple's lawyers' desk in Cupertino, and this time, I believe that some here will identify themselves.

As reported by MacRumors, Monica Emerson (from California) filed a collective action against Ma this week, accusing the company of launching iOS updates that were in the words of the company itself “specifically designed and programmed to reject, as of November 2016, old chargers from the iPhone to charge iPhones correctly ”. If you have already seen the alert “The accessory may not be compatible” on your iPhone screen, you know what it is.

Monica stated that she purchased an iPhone 7 in September 2016 and that she charged her device with the original adapter without problems until October 2017; from that date on, it just stopped working and started showing the “damn” message.

As we know, this alert is supposedly shown when a user connects a counterfeit or non-Apple approved accessory in order to protect the device. It turns out that, in practice, in fact many people end up being harmed by the alert as it occasionally appears for cables and accessories from partner brands (which are part of the MFi program and are certified by Ma) and even for the cables and Apple accessories (in some cases). The fact that these alerts can occur for a number of reasons, including something as simple as dirt on the cable pin or Lightning connector.

Regardless, Emerson believes that the alert forced not only her, but thousands of other customers in the same situation, to buy new chargers, and decided to open this collective action against the company by accusing it of misleading advertising, unfair commercial practices, fraud and other violations of California law requiring more than $ 5 million to be divided among those affected by the problem.

We will see what this will bring.