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Apple opens claims on its delayed Siri features at about $25 an iPhone
Apple's $250 million settlement over the delayed Siri features now has a live claims site paying an estimated $25 per eligible iPhone, and Apple denies the allegations it settled to avoid the cost of a trial.
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What happened
- Apple's settlement website for the $250 million Siri class action is live, and eligible owners can file claims from September 21 through December 21.
- The settlement terms set an estimated payment of $25 per eligible iPhone, which can rise as high as $95 if fewer claims are filed than expected.
- Eligibility requires a U.S. purchase of one of seven iPhone models, for something other than resale, between June 10, 2024 and March 29, 2025.
- A final approval hearing is set for February 24, 2027, and payments to claimants are not expected to begin until some point next year.
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Why it matters
- cost The $250 million is already fixed; what moves with turnout is each claimant's share, so a low-participation claims process pays individual owners more without changing Apple's bill.
- decision Anyone signing off marketing copy for a feature still in development now has a per-device dollar figure to weigh against the number of units that will ship while the copy runs.
- constraint Because the class is defined by purchase dates, the size of the exposure depends on how long advertising for an unshipped feature stays in front of buyers.
- precedent A nine-figure payout with no admission of wrongdoing still gives the next plaintiff a benchmark for an advertised AI feature that slips.
The claim form wants the iPhone's serial number. Say you do not have it and the form asks instead for your Apple Account email address and the phone's number [14]. Eligible owners should get an email with a claim ID and a PIN over the coming days, and the site takes claims without either [13].
Divide the fund by the estimate and you get the claim volume the estimate assumes: $250 million at $25 a device covers 10 million devices [16]. For a payout to reach the $95 ceiling, valid claims would have to come in near 2.6 million or below [17]. Both figures use the full settlement amount, and the MacRumors report does not break out fees or administration costs.
The purchase window that defines the class runs 292 days [18]. It opens in the same month Apple previewed a Siri that would understand personal context, see what was on screen, and take deeper per-app commands, shown with a user asking about their mother's flight and lunch reservation using information from Mail and Messages [6]. It closes days after Apple delayed that version of Siri in March 2025 [8]. Buy the same phone in April 2025 and you are outside the class [11].
Apple denies the allegations and settled to avoid the costs and risks of a trial [4]. Apple said it agreed to the settlement "to stay focused" on "delivering the most innovative products and services to our users" [5]. The case never reached a verdict on false advertising, so the only number other product teams get is the price. About 15 months separated the March 2025 delay from the announcement at WWDC in June 2026 [19].
Where the claim appears sorts the risk for anyone approving copy about a feature that is not in the build yet. A keynote slide and a developer session are one thing, the product page and a TV commercial are another, and Apple's Siri claims ran in a commercial starring the actor Bella Ramsey [7]. The other question is whether the buyer who pays today gets the code today. Purchase-path copy for code that is not shipping is the combination with a settled dollar figure attached to it, and the bill grows with every day that copy stays in front of buyers.
Apple announced Siri AI at WWDC in June 2026, and it runs on iPhone 15 Pro models and newer under iOS 27, released the week before claims opened [9]. It is still labelled a beta feature, though iOS 27 is not [10].
What to watch
- Claim volume disclosed ahead of the February 24, 2027 approval hearing, which would show whether per-device payments stay near $25 or move toward the $95 cap.
- Whether Apple removes the beta label from Siri AI in a later iOS 27 update.
- Whether other delayed AI features that were advertised as available draw suits using the same purchase-window theory.