Apple’s iPhone Slowdowns Have Customers Hurrying to Court

By Joe Schneider

• Two groups of customers sue Apple for throttling their phones

• One group claims move intended to push sales of latest iPhones

IPhone users have begun racing to courthouses, infuriated by an Apple Inc. software update that slowed down the operation of their smartphones.

At least two groups of customers sued Apple over the deterioration of their phones’ performance.

One group, in Chicago federal court, claims the software updates that throttle down the performance of iPhone 5, iPhone 6 and some iPhone 7s were intentionally put out to induce customers to buy newer iPhones such as iPhone 8 ...