Last week, Apple was hit with a class-action law suit, alleging that the company failed to inform customers that Wi-Fi Assist, one of the new features available in iOS 9, consumes bandwidth from their data plan.
Scott Phillips and Suzanne Schmidt Phillips, the California couple behind the law suit, are seeking $5 million in damages.
Appleinsider managed to secure a copy of the document. It states that Apple failed to provide accurate guidelines for using Wi-Fi assist; only acting once the surge of negative feedback regarding the feature reached a critical mass.
"Reasonable and average consumers use their iPhones for streaming of music, videos, and running various applications - all of which can use significant data. Defendant's corrective statement does not disclose any basis for its conclusion that an average consumer would not see much increase in cellular usage." Reads the document.
To give some background info, Wi-Fi Assist is a new feature introduced with iOS 9, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, last September. It works by giving users with weak Wi-Fi connections the option to tap into their cellular data network to speed up their internet speed.
Alf Watt, a former Apple Employee, wrote a lengthy piece detailing the complicated nature of the networking industry.
'Wi-Fi Assist, then, is an attempt to prevent end users from feeling punished by the failure of the network. But at a high cost to the end user. It salves the pain of being disconnected but puts the user at the mercy of their cellular providers who know all to well how much they are willing to pay to forgo that particular kind of suffering.' He writes.
He believes that companies like Apple should work more closely with mobile and broadband internet service providers to solve issues such as this.
In the meantime, users can avoid any Wi-Fi assist related problems by simply switching it off in the settings menu.
