Apple's "battery door" incident has made waves again, with British consumer activists filing a $2 billion class action lawsuit.

CTOnews.com, May 2 (Xinhua) Apple has faced a $2 billion class action lawsuit in London on suspicion of concealing defective iPhone batteries and deliberately slowing down the performance of its phones. (CTOnews.com Note: about 13.86 billion yuan) The lawsuit was initiated by British consumer activist Justin Gutman on behalf of millions of iPhone users.

Gutman's lawyer accused Apple of deliberately hiding battery problems with some phone models and quietly limiting the phone's performance through software updates. Apple denied the charge in a written defense, saying that its iPhone battery was not defective and that it provided free battery replacement for these users, in addition to a few iPhone 6s models.

Apple also said that its power management tool, launched in 2017, is designed to ensure the stable operation of the phone when the battery is aging or the battery is low, and will only reduce the performance of the iPhone 6 by an average of 10%. Gutman asked the London Competition Court of Appeal on Tuesday (May 2) to approve the case and put it on trial. His lawyer, Philip Moser, cited the fact that Apple reached a settlement with US consumers and regulators in 2020 to prove that Apple did not "completely deny that it happened".

Moser also mentioned that Apple promised the UK competition regulator in 2019 that it would explain the health of the battery more clearly and directly to iPhone users. Apple denied that it had misled users about iPhone battery problems, pointing out that it apologized to the public in 2017 and offered cheaper battery replacements for affected users.

David Wolfson, an Apple lawyer, said in court documents that the lawsuit actually blamed that "not all batteries can meet the maximum power requirements at any time under any circumstances," which is a common feature of all battery-powered devices.