Italy's competition authority has fined Apple €10 Million ($12m/£8.9m) for 'aggressive and misleading' commercial practices regarding its iPhones.
It said the US tech firm 'did not make it clear that this feature exists under certain specific conditions', notably in laboratory tests with static and pure water, 'and not under normal conditions of use'.
The regulator said Apple advertised several iPhone models as being water-resistant without clarifying they were only so under certain circumstances.
It added that the company's disclaimer, saying its phones were not covered by warranty in case of damage from liquids, mislead clients, who were also not provided support when their phones were damaged by water or other liquids.
LADbible has reached out to Apple for a comment.
This comes after Apple agreed to fork out $113 million (£85m) to settle allegations that it slowed down user's iPhones.
In the US, 33 states claimed the company had taken the steps in a bid to driver users into buying new devices. Millions of people were impacted when the models of iPhone 6, 7 and SE were slowed down in 2016.
The tech giant had already agreed to pay up to $500m (£378m) to settle a lawsuit brought in California which related to them slowing down the phones.
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