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Don’t see where it says, not considered a trade in or not eligible for trade in credits if available.

Yeah I was told I would get trade in credits but I would need to have the device for 12 or 13 months.
 
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Other consideration, they can always change eligible plans which may not be a good deal or what want. All carriers do that pretty much too when want you off an old plan.
 
Other consideration, they can always change eligible plans which may not be a good deal or what want. All carriers do that pretty much too when want you off an old plan.

Yes, but worse case scenario the $1000 off goes away, you are still paying half the cost of the IUP program. I would rather pay $466 and trade in the phone with AT&T Next Anytime then pay $707 and trade it in with IUP.
 
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There are a lot of variables, but without any trade-in, both AT&T and Apple Upgrade are roughly the same amount. Using a iPhone 16 Pro 512GB as an example, with Apple Upgrade, requiring no trade-in device, it works out to $65.33/month with Apple Care + Theft and Loss. AT&T is $36.12/month, the yearly upgrade option $10, and Apple Care + Theft and Loss would be $13.49/month for a total of $59.61. So approx $5.72 difference per month.
 
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I was looking at the Next Up Anytime plan, considering it for a couple of people on my plan. I'm on the IUP plan myself.

I'm normally very good at math, but am getting old so fewer brain cells active :). My main concern was the credits. To get a 16 Pro Max on the Next Up Anytime plan, you have to trade in a phone still, right? And you get up to $1000 in credits over 3 years like usual. So, next year, to get the 17 Pro Max (or whatever it happens to be), you have to have made 12 or 13 payments, plus trade in the 16 Pro Max, & would still get a $1000 credit (assuming everything else stays the same)?
 
I was looking at the Next Up Anytime plan, considering it for a couple of people on my plan. I'm on the IUP plan myself.

I'm normally very good at math, but am getting old so fewer brain cells active :). My main concern was the credits. To get a 16 Pro Max on the Next Up Anytime plan, you have to trade in a phone still, right? And you get up to $1000 in credits over 3 years like usual. So, next year, to get the 17 Pro Max (or whatever it happens to be), you have to have made 12 or 13 payments, plus trade in the 16 Pro Max, & would still get a $1000 credit (assuming everything else stays the same)?

Yes that’s what I was told by the AT&T CSR.
 
To get a 16 Pro Max on the Next Up Anytime plan, you have to trade in a phone still, right? And you get up to $1000 in credits over 3 years like usual. So, next year, to get the 17 Pro Max (or whatever it happens to be), you have to have made 12 or 13 payments, plus trade in the 16 Pro Max, & would still get a $1000 credit (assuming everything else stays the same)?

NUA is an add on to your line. To get the $1000 this year for the 16 Pro Max, you’ll need to trade in a qualifying phone.

Next year, to get the 17 Pro Max, you have to “turn in” (it’s specifically turn in, not trade in) the 16 Pro Max after 12 months in order to get the $1000 credit AND you have to continue paying for the NUA add on.
 
Can someone explain why you would want to upgrade 3 times in one year?

Honestly, I think at this present time upgrading three times a year wouldn’t really be the norm for most people. Back in the day I was on T-Mobile and on the jump program and I would often jump during the year because they were multiple android phones that will come out. Even towards the end, I would often jump from the iPhone to the Samsung flagship phone. Now present day I wouldn’t really jump from phone to phone, but I would like to be able to upgrade my iPhone yearly without having to pay off 50% of the phone. Also, the benefit of the AT&T next time plan is realistically you only paying about 270 of the phone off instead of almost 800.
 
I just paid my 15 pro max off and upgraded. I was wondering why the next went up to $10 a month. Guess i should have read the fine print but glad i went with it
 
Ok so just left the AT&T store. Purchased the IPhone 16 Pro Max 512 GB. Had to pay $233 to pay off half of my 15 Pro Max. I can confirm that I did receive the $500 in bill credits spread out over $36 months so $13.89 a month off the bill, so from $38.89-13.89 I’ll be paying $25 a month $8 less than I was before. If I would have went with the 256GB it would have been right under $20 a month. The Rep also explained that next year after I’ve made 12 or 13 payments he wasn’t for sure I would qualify for what ever promotion they have then, so if it’s the $1000 off I would get that with the NextUp Anytime. Thanks for all the info y’all learning about the $500 off made the purchase more palatable for me.


So in Total I’ve paid 752 in payments and tax on my 15 Pro Max, and I’m getting back $500 so a loss of $252 which isn’t bad on a year old iPhone. Next year if they still have the $1000 promotion it will be a killer deal.

My only other option would have been to sell my phone on eBay for about 725 and after shipping and fees I probably would have been left with 630 at best and still owe $860 to AT&T so -$230.

Side Note, Desert Titanium was still available to ship for launch. All others had a modest wait time.

Bumping an old thread but are you able to simply trade in your 16 pro max, get the ~$1K credits and run this back again - all for $120/yr ($10 ATT next up anytime fee). Seems like a no brainer for those wanting to upgrade every year? What am I missing
 
Bumping an old thread but are you able to simply trade in your 16 pro max, get the ~$1K credits and run this back again - all for $120/yr ($10 ATT next up anytime fee). Seems like a no brainer for those wanting to upgrade every year? What am I missing
This is what I understand from earlier threads. Super exited not to have to pay to get to 50% paid off this year plus get the credits.
 
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This is what I understand from earlier threads. Super exited not to have to pay to get to 50% paid off this year plus get the credits.
seems too good to be true! basically just $10/mo with these trade ins…

Are you able to pre order beforehand or do you have to wait until your 12 months hits exactly?
 
You can do an early upgrade before you are 33% paid off but you won’t be able to get the promo. But if you are close to the 33% you can pay the difference and get the promo.
Awesome thanks for clarifying. Looks like i’m switching over!
 
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You can do an early upgrade before you are 33% paid off but you won’t be able to get the promo. But if you are close to the 33% you can pay the difference and get the promo.

I checked by trying to upgrade and it said I had to pay $34.20 to upgrade and get any promotion. Can’t wait.
 
I checked by trying to upgrade and it said I had to pay $34.20 to upgrade and get any promotion. Can’t wait.

I went through the early upgrade process online, turning in my 16 PM for a 17 PM and no promotion was applied

I looks like the trade-in offers aren’t live yet for the iPhone 17
 
I went through the early upgrade process online, turning in my 16 PM for a 17 PM and no promotion was applied

I looks like the trade-in offers aren’t live yet for the iPhone 17

It shouldn’t be live at all yet. There definitely is a promotion coming it is $1100 off.
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I guess it depends on where you are looking. But I would give it a few days before we see the change correctly. I don’t see this phone being that popular that they would exclude us.
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I understand the 17 isn’t live for preorders. I’m just saying when you start the upgrade process the 17’s do not show any promo offers yet like the 16’s

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Yeah I saw this too this morning but like the PP said, I just don't think the promos are fully live yet or else it will be ridiculous.
 
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I always order via apple's website even though I go through the ATT program. I have ordered from ATT a couple of times before when I couldn't get a launch day phone from Apple. They haven't opened it up to have everything selected before hand so you just have to hit the button. I need to make sure my iPad is good to go so I have two options for the Apple Store app since it always opens up first for traffic. Cheers!
 
I went through the early upgrade process online, turning in my 16 PM for a 17 PM and no promotion was applied

I looks like the trade-in offers aren’t live yet for the iPhone 17

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I was too excited when I saw offer available, but it was saying I was able to upgrade now due to my payment going through and now I have paid off 33% of the phone.
 
Bumping an old thread but are you able to simply trade in your 16 pro max, get the ~$1K credits and run this back again - all for $120/yr ($10 ATT next up anytime fee). Seems like a no brainer for those wanting to upgrade every year? What am I missing
There’s a catch, there’s always a catch 🤣🤣

So I was running through AT&T’s preorder calculator for my upgrade, I have one more payment but it’s letting me upgrade. However what threw me off was the trade in, how did they make this possible for them to say I paid 30%, then somehow they credit me 1,100 on my iPhone 🤔🤔 how locked in will it be.

My biggest question is how will this be possible because for one, I plan to doing store pickup with financing through AT&T there. Normally it’s pretty good but just wondering if I chose no trade in how it will affect the next up upgrade or whatever 😬
 
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