Apple has reached an $18 million settlement to end a class action alleging it pushed through an update that disabled FaceTime on older model iPhones as a way to save on the costs of running the program, reports Law 360 (a subscription is required to read the entire article).
The lawsuit alleges the tech giant devised a plan to “break” FaceTime on iOS 6 or earlier by causing a vital digital certificate to prematurely expire. Apple supposedly implemented the “FaceTime Break” on April 16, 2014, then blamed the sudden incompatibility on a bug.
