Advice on exchanging 7 for 7+ on upgrade program please

Hi all,

I got an iPhone 7 128gb last Friday on the Apple Upgrade Program (UK).

I'm starting to regret my decision and wish I'd gone for a 7+ now and I'm wondering if there's a way I can do it some other way than waiting for the store to get stock of the plus, which looks very unlikely to happen within my 14 day exchange period which ends next Friday?

I wish I would have waited. I'm constantly refreshing the in-store reservation page but having no luck finding a plus in any of the three stores near me :-(

Any help or advice anyone? Please? If not I guess I'm stuck with the 7 this year and will have to go plus next year :-(

 

Thanks for all the advice everyone. I called Apple and also the Apple Store directly, both told me that if I want a 7+ then I've just got to keep trying to reserve one.

My 14 days ends this Friday so I may give the 7 back and just get a 6s Plus again as there are no 7+'s in the whole of the UK at the moment by the look of it.

 

I was very lucky today, I managed to check the reservations site at just the right time and got myself a 128gb 7+!

One thing worth noting for anyone else in my situation is that if you move from a 7 to a plus this needs a credit check for the plus before they take back the 7.

Really happy with this (I'm posting this from it) and very happy I managed to get one!

 

When you reserve an iPhone to pick up in store using the Apple Upgrade Program reservation page it basically just puts an iPhone aside for you - you don't pay for it and aren't credit checked.

When you visit the store to buy the phone that is when the credit check takes place, if you are exchanging it works like this (the guy in the store showed me it on his device)...

If you are exchanging "like for like", for example you have a 7 Black and want a 7 White, then this is just treated as an exchange with no new credit check or agreement

If you are exchanging up (like I did), for example going from a 7 to a 7 plus then the way that they do it is to credit check and agree the new phone and then cancel the old one and it's credit agreement. This means that at one point there will be two lines of credit open until they close the old one. The reason they do this (they told me) is that if they cancel the old phone first and then you fail the credit check for the new one then you would have to go home without a phone.

I hope that helps.