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Title: News: Apple sued for activating Wi-Fi Assist by default
Post by: HCK on October 26, 2015, 03:00:31 pm
News: Apple sued for activating Wi-Fi Assist by default

Apple has been hit with a class action lawsuit for enabling Wi-Fi Assist automatically without informing users, Apple Insider reports. The new iOS 9 feature uses cellular data to boost a user’s Internet speed when the local Wi-Fi network quality is poor, which plaintiffs William Scott Phillips and Suzanne Schmidt Phillips allege has cost users more than $5 million in cellular data charges. The complaint centers around the fact that Apple set…

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