A U.S. appeals court has ruled that Apple did not mislead customers about the amount of iCloud storage they received after upgrading.
The decision came Wednesday from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which rejected claims that Apple gave less data storage than promised.
The case was brought by Lisa Bodenburg, who paid $2.99 per month for 200 GB of iCloud+ storage. She argued that Apple should have added that to the 5 GB of free storage, giving her a total of 205 GB. Instead, she received 200 GB in total.
The court said Apple delivered exactly what it offered. Circuit Judge Milan Smith said Apple clearly presented the upgrade as additional or supplemental storage, not in addition to the free 5 GB.
The ruling also noted that the lawsuit relied on unreasonable assumptions, comparing it to past dismissed cases involving misleading claims about soft drinks and lip balm packaging.
Smith wrote that Apple’s statements were not deceptive just because they may have been misunderstood by a small number of consumers.
The ruling upholds a previous decision from May 2024 by U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson, who had also dismissed the case.
