ICLOUD legal dispute over storage space: Richter gives Apple right

A lawsuit against Apple due to the stinginess of the ICLOUD+ storage volume has now been dismissed in the USA. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, the responsible appeal court in the event of the number 24-3335, already decided Last weekthat a person concerned is not entitled to a lawsuit. This also gave the possibility of making a class action lawsuit from the procedure that could have joined further Apple customers.

It was about 5 GB

The decision should have been clear – all three responsible judges were for the dismissal and thus helped Apple to victory. The plaintiff and Apple user Lisa Bodenburg had stated that with $ 2.99 a month to have a subscription for iCloud+ with 200 GB of storage space-assuming that the 5 GB, which Apple all users all users, would be added. However, the group then did what it has always done with such upgrades: instead of 205 GB, Bodenburg received exactly 200 GB.

In her complaint, the woman’s lawyers argued that Apple had “hewn” her ear. According to the Reuters news agency, judge Milan Smith said that that did not happen. She got exactly what Apple promised her. The group offers “additional storage” to the 5 GB. Accordingly, the hope of maintaining 205 instead of 200 GByTye is an “unfounded assumption”. In this context, the court named other rejected consumer lawsuits – for example against the supposedly wrong weight of a lip balm, in which part of the buyer was unavailable due to the construction of the packaging.

Fat complaint in the UK

“Apple’s statements are neither wrong nor misleading just because they may be misunderstood by an insignificant and non -representative group of consumers,” said Richter Smith. At first there was no statement on the decision of Apple or Bodenburg’s lawyers. With its decision, the Court of Appeal maintained a dismissal of the lower court, which had already been issued in spring 2024.

In the past, complaints and disputes about iCloud (+) have been in the past. Most recently, a British consumer protection organization Apple had sued 3.6 billion euros because the acquisition of iCloud+ was a compulsion for users and there is ultimately no adequate alternatives on the platform. Apple decidedly rejected the allegations.