Apple sued over iPhone update malfunction

Tech giant Apple is being sued by a Californian woman after a software update allegedly turned her phone into a “brick”, with the user unable to turn the device on or use any of its features.

Biana Wofford, in her lawsuit lodged in the Superior Court of California, said his gadget was turned into “a device with little more use than that of a paper weight”.

“Apple has falsely, intentionally and repeatedly represented to owners and consumers of the iPhone 3G that its new operating system for the device, iOS4, was … a significant upgrade for the functionality of all iPhone devices, when in fact, the installation and use of the iOS4 on iPhone 3G resulted in the opposite – a device with little more use than that of a paper weight,” Wofford wrote in her complaint, according to Fairfax.

Wofford also says the software upgrade did not improve the phone at all, but rather “rendered the iPhone 3G virtually unusable”.

iPhone 3G users have previously reported performance issues when downloading the iOS4 update, which requires much more processing power.