If you purchased an iPhone 16, iPhone 16e, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max from June 10, 2024, to March 29, 2025, a class action settlement may affect your rights.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarkson Law Firm, P.C., Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, and Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP announce a $250,000,000 Settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit against Defendant Apple Inc. relating to all iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max. Apple denies any wrongdoing.

The lawsuit is titled Landsheft v. Apple, Inc., Civil Case No. 5:25-cv-02668-NW and is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, California. Plaintiffs allege that consumers expected to receive certain Apple Intelligence-powered Siri assistant features when they purchased certain iPhone models that they did not receive during the Class Period.

Who is included? Settlement Class Members include all purchasers of an iPhone 16, iPhone 16e, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max (collectively, "Eligible Devices") who reside in the United States and purchased an Eligible Device in the United States for purposes other than resale from June 10, 2024, to March 29, 2025.

More information on the Settlement Class and Eligible Devices is available at www.SmartphoneAISettlement.com.

What does the Settlement provide? Settlement Class Members may be eligible for a cash payment. While Apple denies that it did anything wrong, Apple has agreed to pay $250,000,000 into a Settlement fund. This money will be divided among Settlement Class Members and will be used to pay for costs and fees approved by the Court.

How to get cash payment: If you are an individual purchaser of an Eligible Device and wish to receive money, you must submit a complete claim form to the Settlement Administrator online at www.SmartphoneAISettlement.com by December 21, 2026, or download a claim form from the website and mail it to the Settlement Administrator (address below) postmarked no later than December 21, 2026.

Your other options: You can exclude yourself from the Settlement or object to the Settlement by December 21, 2026.

If you exclude yourself, you will not receive a cash payment offered pursuant to the Settlement. You will not release any of the claims that this Settlement resolves and will keep your right to sue the Defendant on your own for the issues covered by the lawsuit.

If you do not exclude yourself from the Settlement and wish to voice your disagreement with the Settlement, you may object. The Court will consider your views in deciding whether to approve or reject the Settlement, but it cannot change the Settlement terms. If the Court does not approve the Settlement, no settlement benefits will be available, and the lawsuit will continue.

For further details and requirements on how to exclude yourself or object, go to www.SmartphoneAISettlement.com.

What if I do nothing? If you do nothing, you will not receive a cash payment and will still be bound by all terms of the Settlement, which means you will not be able to start a lawsuit, continue with a lawsuit, or be part of any other lawsuit against the Defendant about the legal issues in the case.

What happens next? The Court will hold a Final Fairness Hearing on February 24, 2027, at 9:00 a.m., at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, in San Jose, California, 280 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. At this hearing, the Court will decide whether to approve: (1) the Settlement; and (2) Class Counsel's request for attorneys' fees and costs. The date, time, and location of the Final Fairness Hearing are subject to change.

For more information, please visit the Settlement website, www.SmartphoneAISettlement.com, the Court's PACER site at https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov, or contact the Settlement Administrator below.

Landsheft, et al. v. Apple Inc.
Settlement Administrator
P.O. Box 301132
Los Angeles CA, 90030-1132

SOURCE Clarkson Law Firm, P.C., Cotchett, Pitre, and McCarthy LLP, and Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP