How long can you stay in an Apple Store until you get kicked out

[russell_314]

How clean and well dressed you choose to be for your visit will likely also have an impact.

Unfortunately, this is likely going to be a big factor. I’ve noticed this myself at stores when sometimes I’m working on chores outside and I’m wearing casual clothes with dirt on them. I noticed I don’t get the same treatment as if I’m dressed up. I’ve never tried this in the Apple Store but I suspect they’re going to respond similarly. It’s unfortunate people judge others as better just because they’re wearing a few hundred dollars of threads but such is life.

There are rest rooms? In my city (in DE) there are two large Apple Stores and neither have facilities. Not sure how it is in the rest of Germany, where folks are "invited or nudged" to pay the attendants/ cleaners.

Come to think of it, I didn't come across a lavatory at the couple Stores I visited in Australia either. 🤷‍♂️

In the USA, I’ve never seen a restroom at an Apple Store. At least not one that was clearly marked. I suspect there is one, but it’s an employees only thing.

 

[Mrbobb]

I once stayed back for a repair which took 2-3 hours and an hr later after the store closed. The guard told me there are people who spend few hours, and if they aren’t causing problems or look suspicious it’s not a big deal.

When I go in for same day service where it can take hours, I pick a store that is in a mall, to get me occupied and visit the food court while waiting. The privilege of living near a major metro.

 

[Mrbobb]

In the USA, I’ve never seen a restroom at an Apple Store. At least not one that was clearly marked. I suspect there is one, but it’s an employees only thing.

Apple learned from the Starbucks' broudhaha, refusing 2 gay non-customers from using their bathroom, apparently illegal in some localities.

 

[russell_314]

Apple learned from the Starbucks' broudhaha, refusing 2 gay non-customers from using their bathroom, apparently illegal in some localities.

Do you think maybe that’s because Starbucks serves food? I can’t see how a store that sold electronics would be required to have a public restroom. That seems a bit weird but would not surprise me.

 

[Expos of 1969]

In a row?

Credit to Steven Wright

 

[TechnoMonk]

When was that? For a major repair for a Mac or something?

I usually go in the afternoon hours for Apple Store so I don’t cross over the closing time unless it’s a Sunday and I came a little late.

Did some of y’all ever got to stay in there for iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch launch days (excluding the ones for the underrated ones like iPhone 16e)? Heard a few people saying that they did on Apple Store locations that were not open late or 24/7 on nights before launch day of iPhones.

I had to get last minute repair done on my mac as I was traveling out of town next day. Apple Genius bar was generous to fix it with out an appointment.

 

[aries81]

i have spent 2 to 3 hours in a lot of apple stores around the world, in a a lot of countries.

Doing what though? I mean it's not like they all stock different items, plus the average Apple fan has an iPhone/Mac/Macbook/whatever already.

I get that Apple stores are cool looking places, but unless I need something in particular, I see absolutely zero reason to browse.

 

[goldmac2006]

I had to get last minute repair done on my mac as I was traveling out of town next day. Apple Genius bar was generous to fix it with out an appointment.

Yep they let you do that, and you got it sorted right? So when they close they don’t kick out anyone who still needs to finish something like a Genius Bar appointment or getting a demo on Vision Pro sorted ✔️ right?

 

[DeltaMac]

OP was asking about the (only?) Apple store that is open 24/7, and (post #22) simply wants to stay in the store for 24 hours. No other reasons given. As the store is open, seems easy enough, just don't make yourself an annoyance.

 

[TechnoMonk]

Yep they let you do that, and you got it sorted right? So when they close they don’t kick out anyone who still needs to finish something like a Genius Bar appointment or getting a demo on Vision Pro sorted ✔️ right?

They have no problem if you need to wait after hours for getting your device fixed or other appointments. The Apple closing staff was busy removing devices from display table and no one bothered me. My experience in Apple Store is don’t be a jerk, they usually go out of the way to help you.

 

[goldmac2006]

They have no problem if you need to wait after hours for getting your device fixed or other appointments. The Apple closing staff was busy removing devices from display table and no one bothered me. My experience in Apple Store is don’t be a jerk, they usually go out of the way to help you.

Agreeable. And of course they now have to take the devices off the tables including Apple Watches to charge them for the night and also sometimes overnight they don’t want to see these display iPhones, iPads and Macs get taken.

 

[klasma]

Just wondering, I just want to know, not for any particular reason, just want to know if I could stay at Apple 5th Avenue for an extended period of time...

It probably depends on how quickly you’d get bored.

 

[Macky-Mac]

I'm remembering that number of years ago there was a thread in the Community forum here on MacRumors that had some discussion about a blogger who claimed to be living free in Apple stores in various locations. At the time there were stores with large areas devoted to instructional talks and how-to discussions. Comfortable seating was provided where the blogger would snooze undisturbed by the staff....or so he claimed.

 

[goldmac2006]

I'm remembering that number of years ago there was a thread in the Community forum here on MacRumors that had some discussion about a blogger who claimed to be living free in Apple stores in various locations. At the time there were stores with large areas devoted to instructional talks and how-to discussions. Comfortable seating was provided where the blogger would snooze undisturbed by the staff....or so he claimed.

Rly?

Where do they rest at if they would camp at an Apple Store?

 

[Macky-Mac]

Rly?

Where do they rest at if they would camp at an Apple Store?

I'm not sure what you're asking?

The blogger claimed to sleep in the theater area of the Apple store that some larger stores had at the time. My vague recollection is that it was at one of the major Apple stores in London, which was open 24 hours a day at the time.

Did it really happen? Or was the blogger just making it up? The person who started the topic seemed to believe it.

 

[Clix Pix]

If anyone is hanging out all day and evening into the night in an Apple Store, especially if it is a store open 24/7, regardless of country of location, this still would be considered "loitering" on private property, and the store in question would have every right to ask the individual to leave the premises. If he or she fails to do so, even after additional urging from store security (if the store has staff in that position) then, the next obvious step would be that the local jurisdiction of police serving the area would be called to the store to arrest the perpetrator.

Why would anyone want to even take the risks of putting themselves into that kind of situation in the first place?

 

[WilliApple]

Could I get away with taking naps or ordering DoorDash at the 5th avenue Apple Store?

 

[Expos of 1969]

Could I get away with taking naps or ordering DoorDash at the 5th avenue Apple Store?

Why not contact the store itself remotely or in person to ask such bizarre questions? Or send the questions to Cook himself.

 

[goldmac2006]

I'm not sure what you're asking?

The blogger claimed to sleep in the theater area of the Apple store that some larger stores had at the time. My vague recollection is that it was at one of the major Apple stores in London, which was open 24 hours a day at the time.

Did it really happen? Or was the blogger just making it up? The person who started the topic seemed to believe it.

Indeed a long time ago in the 2000s early Classic Design Apple Stores had theatres in them that were larger locations like Apple Palo Alto. In the 2010s they took them down altogether for Boardrooms.

The only modern Apple Store in existence asides the Forum video walls in Vintage D and E modern Apple Store and other Apple stores to date to have a theatre is the Apple Tower Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Due to its nature of being a historical landmark and theatre in downtown Los Angeles Apple brought the leather seating of Steve jobs theatre to that Apple Store location.

 

[goldmac2006]

If anyone is hanging out all day and evening into the night in an Apple Store, especially if it is a store open 24/7, regardless of country of location, this still would be considered "loitering" on private property, and the store in question would have every right to ask the individual to leave the premises. If he or she fails to do so, even after additional urging from store security (if the store has staff in that position) then, the next obvious step would be that the local jurisdiction of police serving the area would be called to the store to arrest the perpetrator.

Why would anyone want to even take the risks of putting themselves into that kind of situation in the first place?

Apple Stores do have first party security in the Cupertino and Bay Area store(s) surrounding the inside of the store.

Most of them also have an outside security guard on duty.

 

[neutrino17]

Years ago in the old Apple Store in San Francisco they had an upstairs theater area. There was a woman who would go there and park herself and pull out her laptop and work all day. I recall seeing pictures of her, maybe on this site.

 

[goldmac2006]

Years ago in the old Apple Store in San Francisco they had an upstairs theater area. There was a woman who would go there and park herself and pull out her laptop and work all day. I recall seeing pictures of her, maybe on this site.

Rly, have proof of that?

Is that the location before it became the first Vintage D designed Apple Store in 2015, Apple Union Square?

 

[bobesch]

Why not contact the store itself remotely or in person to ask such bizarre questions? Or send the questions to Cook himself.

About ordering DoorDash ... ask Tim the cook?

 

[mansplains]

I think the longest I've been at an Apple Store was 4-5 hours, back in January. We had ordered a machine for a new employee, and it was "ready" for pickup. There was a payment issue and my boss was on the road. He spoke with the business sales rep, there was some back and forth, and after a half hour it seemed all set. Then the hours passed. I ended up having to go again the next day. Was fine with me, being hourly and expensing miles. Staff and security would check on me occasionally, but no one was trying to get rid of me. The alternative was waiting a month for the CTO. Being a non-profit likely has its own challenges involved as well.

 

[Alpha Centauri]

Well, I guess that means you are Officially "riff-raff"!

Beginning to think I might be