Some iCloud subscribers are going to receive a refund from Apple after the company decided to settle a class-action lawsuit for $14.8 million.
As MacWorld reports, the lawsuit was in response to Apple supposedly breaching the iCloud terms and conditions by storing iCloud user data on third-party servers. Apple denies it did anything wrong or breached the contract, but has decided to settle anyway. Whether you are eligible for a refund depends on how long you’ve been a subscriber.
Anyone who paid for an iCloud subscription between Sept. 16, 2015 and Jan. 31, 2016, and had a US mailing address associated with their iCloud account, will be receiving a refund. The one exception to that is if the email address you signed up to iCloud with during that time is no longer active, because you won’t receive the notice confirming you are a “class member.”
How much of a refund will be received depends on how long you were subscribed for during the period mentioned above, as well as which subscription tier you had. Full details of the class-action, as well as what to expect if you are a class member, can be found on the Williams v. Apple Inc. lawsuit website.
