Apple's fortunes do not appear to be improving in removing the iPhone throttle, as the company now has 32 lawsuits across the United States.
Over the past few weeks, Apple has confirmed that it is intentionally lowering the battery life of the old iPhones without permission from device owners.
Critics have accused the company of using this lightweight tactic to get consumers to upgrade to newer models, and as a result, the tech giant has been slapped with a slew of cases of course.
According to ZDNet, the total number of lawsuits filed against Apple has grown to more than 30 within the past few days. There are also possible cases emerging in France, Canada, Australia and South Korea.
This week, five US law firms have opened cases against the iPhone maker, claiming damages on behalf of the consumer, Apple said.
One of these law firms happens to be Huggins Berman, who previously won a case against Apple for setting e-book prices. The company had to split $ 450 million in cash.
As ZDNet reports, another lawsuit looks to drop Apple over unfair behavior, encroachment on supports, breach of implied duty, breach of goodwill and fair dealing, and fraudulent activity.
Lawyers at Huggins Berman said: "The defendant Apple deliberately interfered with the plaintiffs' property and supposed property, ie their iPhones, by installing performance hacking programs on their phones without their knowledge."
"To repeat: Because Apple did not inform them, or ask for their consent to install, program performance bottlenecks when submitting them with iOS 10.2.1 or 11.2 updates, or both, the plaintiff and the presumed class members did not consent to Apple's intervention."
The company has apologized for the accident, though. She said in a statement: "We have heard reactions from our customers about the way in which we deal with iPhone devices with old batteries and how to inform us of that process."
"We know some of you feel Apple has left you. Sorry / We apologize. There has been a lot of misunderstanding about this issue, so we would like to clarify and clarify some of the changes we are making."
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