Lawsuit filed against Apple for the unwieldy size of iOS 8

Lawsuit filed against Apple for the unwieldy size of iOS 8

The suit alleges that Apple did not do enough to alert users that the iOS 8 software update would take up a significant percentage of an iPhone's storage capacity.

Apple is getting sued again, but this time, the plaintiff is not Samsung or Google, and the issue has nothing to do with copyright infringement. Instead, the lawsuit comes from two iPhone users, who are upset about how much storage space iOS takes up on their devices.

According to Mashable, two Miami individuals filed the class action lawsuit in San Francisco’s United States District Court, just a few days before the New Year. The suit alleges that Apple did not do enough to alert users that the iOS 8 software update would take up a significant percentage of an iPhone’s storage capacity.

The issue with iOS 8 is that it was designed with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in mind. Since those two phones both have 64 and 128 gigabyte storage capacity options, the fact that iOS 8 takes up 5.7 gigabytes of free space is not much of an issue. With older phones that only have 8 or 16 gigabytes of capacity in total, though, the iOS 8 update leaves users with little space to store photos, music, eBooks, or other digital files.

It is unlikely that the lawsuit will hold up in court, simply because it was common knowledge very early on that iOS 8 required a lot of space. Back in September, The Verge even published an article specifically warning users that the new operating system “may be too big for some iPhones.”

In addition, an iPhone will not allow users to install iOS 8 without first freeing up the necessary amount of storage space, so it is difficult to believe the plaintiffs’ claim that users updated without knowing that they would lose some capacity.

Even if the lawsuit gets thrown out, though, it still helps to send a message to Apple. There was significant uproar on social media this past fall, when users discovered that the iOS 8 update would be useless for many older iPhone models. Since operating system updates have been known to cause difficulties for older iPhones in the past, perhaps this lawsuit will convince Apple that they need to pay a bit more mind to hardware that is already two or three years old.

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