Macs can now detect water in USB-C ports and spot warranty fraud

To cut down on warranty claims, Apple has added a background feature with macOS Sonoma that runs liquid detection analysis on every USB-C port on a Mac.

Back in 2010, Apple was sued over how it uses moisture indicators on iPhones to determine whether a user’s insistence they hadn’t dropped the device in water was true or not. The suit claimed the indicators weren’t accurate, and Apple lost the case, having to ultimately pay a $53 million settlement.

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