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Carrier AT&T iPhone 15/iPhone 15 Pro Pre-order & Delivery Thread

Aalexander said:
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I just canceled my pre-pre-order to run through the process again, and can unequivocally state that this is not true (at least for my situation - Apple deems my cracked phone worthless).

If I select Apple Trade-In, it lets me go all the way through with Apple's trade-in price. It never pops up anything showing AT&T's stated value for my phone, much less the value under the current promo.
I completed the process again, the same way I had the first time ("No Trade-In" / "Carrier Financing")

If you have a screenshot of Apple Store app / website showing AT&T's trade-in value, I'd love to see it.
 
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It doesn’t show stated value, it shows bill credits of $799 (for iPhone 15 128) and then $0.00/month. There’s a bolded orange line that says AT&T Special Trade-in Deal as well.

This is when I input iPhone 12 mini on apple trade in and follow through with carrier financing.
 
ag21 said:
It doesn’t show stated value, it shows bill credits of $799 (for iPhone 15 128) and then $0.00/month. There’s a bolded orange line that says AT&T Special Trade-in Deal as well.

This is when I input iPhone 12 mini on apple trade in and follow through with carrier financing.
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maybe this is due to the fact that my phone is worthless in Apple's eyes. Anyway, just thought I'd respond in case someone else is in my boat and trying to figure it out
edit to add: Once I answer "No" "Yes" "No" to the first 3 questions, it switches to "Apple will recycle your phone for you" and that's the end of it.
 
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@flashflooder, Did you answer no for one of the questions about your trade?

@onenorth, how did you give your phone back to apple for them to handle with AT&T?
 
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onenorth said:
If I were you I would wait for the next generation iPhone, where the feature differences will be more significant. That is what I am going to do. $799 is a large outlay and then you will be committed to the iPhone 15 for three years unless you want to make another early payoff.
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This generation of iPhone does have significant hardware changes, iMHO.
 
So what time will we be able to preorder off ATT site? 12:00AM?

Also i know this is ATT thread, but are all major carries basically doing this? (I know TMo is but is VzN?)
 
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ag21 said:
@flashflooder, Did you answer no for one of the questions about your trade?

@onenorth, how did you give your phone back to apple for them to handle with AT&T?
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Apple mailed me a box to send the old phone in. I could have dropped it at the Apple Store when I picked up the new phone but then I would have had to transfer all my data over in the store and that process takes awhile, so I did it at home.

Edit to add if you backup to iCloud then the transfer is faster and you can leave the old phone with the store and not have to worry about shipping it.
 
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Apple chat is confirming that. Can mail in or take into store and they’ll handle the AT&T work.
 
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flashflooder said:
maybe this is due to the fact that my phone is worthless in Apple's eyes. Anyway, just thought I'd respond in case someone else is in my boat and trying to figure it out
edit to add: Once I answer "No" "Yes" "No" to the first 3 questions, it switches to "Apple will recycle your phone for you" and that's the end of it.
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I did the prepare for preorder on ATT site. The 12 ProMax I am upgrading has a cracked back screen which I noted when going through the Q&A. The normal trade in value would have been $260 - but that was crossed out and it said $1000. So ATT offering a hefty bonus for first day orders it seems - never seen this before. Can't imagine it working like this on the Apple site.
 
eclipse01 said:
So what time will we be able to preorder off ATT site? 12:00AM?

Also i know this is ATT thread, but are all major carries basically doing this? (I know TMo is but is VzN?)
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I’m just going to say. If you do the iPhone trade in program with att for the $1,000. It’s based off of credits for 36 months. You have to pay it off to upgrade… I would pay that att upgrade fee of $6 per month. So you can upgrade every year. Comes out cheaper even if you upgrade every two years. Just my 2 cents.
 
wgaller said:
I did the prepare for preorder on ATT site. The 12 ProMax I am upgrading has a cracked back screen which I noted when going through the Q&A. The normal trade in value would have been $260 - but that was crossed out and it said $1000. So ATT offering a hefty bonus for first day orders it seems - never seen this before. Can't imagine it working like this on the Apple site.
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It does work the same with Apple as well
 
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wgaller said:
I did the prepare for preorder on ATT site. The 12 ProMax I am upgrading has a cracked back screen which I noted when going through the Q&A. The normal trade in value would have been $260 - but that was crossed out and it said $1000. So ATT offering a hefty bonus for first day orders it seems - never seen this before. Can't imagine it working like this on the Apple site.
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Question #3 on A&T's site is tricky... Is says "Is the screen and device functioning correctly, free of chips, cracks, major brusing/burn-in and less than three missing pixels?" and then proceeds with subbullets only related to the screen (seemingly). I believe the correct answer to #3 (if you have a cracked back) is actually going to be NO, which brings the value of the 12 Pro Max down to $130 (so just barely in the $830 credit tier).
I am in the same boat as you and will be pleasantly surprised if they offer me $1000, but after looking around at various sources I am only expecting $830 credit (still a great value for a cracked phone imo).

The problem is, you cannot get any of this to show up if you do the pre-pre-order through Apple. As soon as you answer that the device has cracks, it defaults to "Apple will recycle it for you", and you can't even get carrier trade-in offer values to pop up like others have shown.

My plan, again, is to pre-pre-order through Apple by stating "no Trade-in" and "Carrier Financing" through AT&T, and then bringing it into AT&T to get my credits after my new phone is delivered. I've read through AT&T's terms and conditions, and don't see any that I'm violating with this approach, it just says you have to trade-in a device on the list within 30 days...
 
My bill and phones are all paid off and I think I am screwed for tomorrow lol No one can figure this error out at ATT or Apple
 

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Aalexander said:
Just wanted to give an awesome update that you can now pre pre-order with the AT&T installment plan with the bill credits on the Apple Store app :)
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Thank you for the update, I never received an email alerting me! But all 4 pre orders are set for my family. Tomorrow morning 5am here we come.
 
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I’m just going to say. If you do the iPhone trade in program with att for the $1,000. It’s based off of credits for 36 months. You have to pay it off to upgrade… I would pay that att upgrade fee of $6 per month. So you can upgrade every year. Comes out cheaper even if you upgrade every two years. Just my 2 cents.
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If you are talking att next. You can only upgrade after 50% paid off. Usually works out to 18 months.
 
wgaller said:
I did the prepare for preorder on ATT site. The 12 ProMax I am upgrading has a cracked back screen which I noted when going through the Q&A. The normal trade in value would have been $260 - but that was crossed out and it said $1000. So ATT offering a hefty bonus for first day orders it seems - never seen this before. Can't imagine it working like this on the Apple site.
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Sorry for the dumb question, were you able to go through the pre-order on the ATT site or just see the trade-in values? I seem to get stuck at the end with the grayed-out coming soon.

Also is there a disadvantage in ordering through Apple vs. ATT using the financing?

Thanks
 
How long is the window for AT&T delivery typically open for before it starts slipping? I wanna order tomorrow but I wanna know if it takes me more than 5 minutes to order is it going to slip to the following week or something
 
I have an iPhone 12 Pro, looking to upgrade to an iPhone 15 Pro 128 GB.

I have always bought my phones outright, but Apple is only offering me $360 trade-in credit. AT&T is offering $830 on their website in credit, if I do installments with the typical 36 months @ 0% APR. The extra $470 in credit from AT&T is very tempting here.

However, on the Apple website, it only shows $800 in AT&T credits. The net result is Apple shows $5.53 per month, while AT&T shows $4.73 per month. Where is the $800 vs $830 difference coming from? Is AT&T including a $30 upgrade fee?

And which is the better deal? :)
 
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