- Apple has agreed to a $20 million settlement in response to a class-action lawsuit alleging Apple Watch battery swell damage.
- Apple Watch First Generation, Series 1, Series 2, and Series 3 models are potentially affected.
- Claimants can expect to receive about $20 per Watch.
Dealing with batteries is arguably the single most frustrating aspect of owning mobile electronics, and for as exasperating as the batteries in our phones can prove, they’ve got nothing on the challenges faced by wearables. Smartwatches rely on a whole arsenal of tricks to pull every last minute of endurance they can out of some legitimately tiny batteries. But what happens when the batteries themselves turn on us? Apple Watch owners have been complaining about damage from swollen batteries for years, and now they could be finally about to get some compensation.
Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit concerning battery-related damage to some of its oldest Apple Watch models: First Generation, Series 1, Series 2, and Series 3. While Apple does not admit to any underlying hardware flaws, the company has conceded to pay $20 million into a fund set up to compensate affected owners.