Apple Watch Swollen Battery Settlement Payments Arriving This Week

U.S. Apple Watch owners who signed up to person a outgo from an Apple suit colony implicit swollen batteries person started receiving their money this week.


The suit was filed successful 2021, but Apple agreed to wage a $20 cardinal settlement successful January of this twelvemonth to debar further ineligible fees. Apple Watch Series 1, Series 2, and Series 3 owners had until April 10 to submit claims, but anyone who had reported a artillery swelling contented to Apple was automatically eligible for a payment.

Payments are being distributed successful the signifier of a prepaid Mastercard, truthful if you person an unexpected email astir the Smith et.al v. Apple Inc. Settlement with an included prepaid card, that's what it is. Apple Watch owners were expected to person $20 minimum with the imaginable for much based connected the fig of claims, and 1 Reddit idiosyncratic said they received a small implicit $25.

The suit suggested that aboriginal Apple Watch models had a plan defect with the artillery and the display. Battery swelling could enactment unit connected the Apple Watch face, causing the show to detach. The plaintiffs claimed that this led to operational failures and injuries from the "razor-sharp edges" of breached screens.

Apple was accused of knowing astir the defect and selling the Apple Watch models anyway, with the plaintiffs seeking general, special, incidental, statutory, punitive, and consequential damages, arsenic good arsenic the costs for replacing their Apple Watches. While Apple settled, the institution denies immoderate wrongdoing and denies that the Apple Watches had issues.
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