The deadline is approaching to register to obtain a bit of Apple’s $35 million settlement with iPhone 7 or 7 Plus customers who skilled audio points with their system’s microphone. These eligible to make a declare will be awarded $50 to $349 from the tech large.

The settlement is restricted to United States residents who owned a type of telephone fashions between September 16, 2016 and January 3, 2023, and reported a coated audio situation to Apple or paid the corporate for repairs.

The deadline to submit a declare is June 3 through the settlement web site.

Those that paid for repairs can obtain a most of $349, whereas individuals who reported the problem however did not pay for repairs can obtain as much as $125. The minimal payout for eligible claimants is $50.

The lawsuit was initially filed in 2019 by plaintiffs Joseph Casillas and De’Jhontai Banks, who each bought iPhone 7’s in 2017 and claimed they started experiencing points the next yr.

“Plaintiff Casillas seen that his telephone’s sound was distorted with audible static whereas making an attempt to play a video on his telephone,” the criticism reads. “Plaintiff Banks seen that she was unable to listen to callers except she used her iPhone’s speaker operate. These are frequent indications of the Audio IC Defect.”

The swimsuit describes the audio chip situation on account of insufficient casing on the telephones, additional claiming that Apple has “lengthy been conscious of the Audio IC Defect” and routinely refused to restore affected telephones freed from cost.

Within the settlement settlement, Apple denied the telephones had any audio points and mentioned it did nothing improper or illegal.