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Completed my order about 15 seconds after go-live. Order confirmation said “pending verification” until a couple of minutes ago. Now I have a September 20th delivery date.

iPhone 11 Pro Max 256gb Midnight Green.
Yeah, mine says my order is on hold until they can approve my application since I’m on iUp. Shouldn’t that have been approved with the pre-approval? I do this every year and have never missed a payment. Should be automatic at this point.
 
I also saw the “Your order is on hold. We’ll email you a delivery date when your application is approved.” message for iPhone Upgrade Program even though I did the pre-approval. The original date when I checked out was 9/20 and within 8 minutes it switched to “Processing” with a 9/20 delivery date. Apple had me worried for a moment!
 
Went from on hold to preparing your order with a 9/20 delivery date...
 
I ordered mine (11 pro max, space grey,512mb)when store opened, done in 5mins
At start of order it was 20th delivery date
On completing it gave 2-3 weeks
Looks like some models are either very popular
Or in short supply
 
Got mine for launch day, but having to enter your payment info manually was lame. I thought that was taken care of in the pre-approval? If not, at least have Apple Pay as an option.
 
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Mine went from "On hold" to delivery September 27th - to October 1st :( That's a week bump back from my initial delivery date.
 
That sucks. I had the pre-approval stuff completed, then today I got to the checkout and I had to reenter my CC info. Didn't want to lose valuable time looking it up in the Wallet app (Apple Card), so I just grabbed my old CC and used that. There was no option to use Apple Pay.
Check this out. Was preapproved Tuesday. They made me go through the process again then just emailed saying they cancelled the order because they couldn’t verify my information with Citizens Bank. I WAS ALREADY PREAPPROVED DAYS AGO. Incredible.
 
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completed my order at 8:05 EST. order on hold due to loan approval. 8:45 got confirmation delivery date for 9-20. so scared it was pushed back to a later date.
 
As someone who remembers standing in line at an AT&T store early in the morning for the 3G, this was the least painful process ever. I preapproved Wednesday, woke up at 7.20, completed the order in the Apple Store app. Apple are getting their shiz together.
 
Always use the IOS app, it was up a solid 2 minutes before the website on my end. It is very possible yours still delivers on launch day, it happens every year.
I did. I had Safari on my Mac and two iPads sitting on my desk, refreshing all three of them over and over. The two iPads got in around the same time through the iOS app. I placed one order on the first iPad and placed the second order on the other iPad.

I have seen Apple bump up delivery dates, so I hope you're right.
 
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Pre-Ordered for my wife using her phone and Apple Store App. Had done the pre filling out, so the process was smooth. However, despite completing the order at 5:03 PDT (receiving a 9/23 receiving date), the email took until 5:20 to deliver and shows 9/27-10/1. Not that big a deal, but interesting in the lag in processing and the shifted time which took a very smooth process and added a bit of disappointment to it. Space gray, 11 Pro, 256 GB.

Weird. I ordered the same model at the same time in the app. I had previously filled out all the info , and it went right through.
My email didn’t show until 5:22, but still shows 9/20 delivery.
 
Space grey is just such a cool slick modern looking colour and finish even still today.

Always had white/silver phones but went space grey this time (256 Pro) so the camera bump is a little less obnoxious. Was tempted with green but thought it would limit case options/colours
 
Decided to switch to T-Mobile from att this year and they said I have to complete the order in the store. Uggh, that’s t until 8am I believe. So much for getting the iPhone before halloween
 
Ordered a Pro Max at 8:03 Eastern. No issues. Fast and intuitive.

Until...

Just got email saying “we’re having a problem with your payment”. The card info hasn’t changed and I confirmed all is good. But OK, l can switch to another card. No problem.

The Apple Store app says I have to go to the website to update payment info. Ok. Now the Apple Store won’t show my orders. Times out with an “Oops! An error occurred.” message.
 

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Completed my order about 15 seconds after go-live. Order confirmation said “pending verification” until a couple of minutes ago. Now I have a September 20th delivery date.

iPhone 11 Pro Max 256gb Midnight Green.

Ok now my order says “On Hold”. :(
 
I ordered mine 3 minutes after preordering went live via AT&T's website. Says delivery date of 9/20 which just so happens to be my birthday. However, when you go to CHECK ORDER STATUS and hit MANAGE, says delivery by date of 9/19. Won't count on it but it would be nice!

Iphone 11 Pro Max 256GB - Space Gray

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Indeed good luck to everyone. I am very happy with my iPhone XS 256 GB. Can't wait for next year's iPhone with 5G, Bluetooth 5.1 and many other features. I hope they will bring the pro motion display to the iPhone by then.
If the new phones had ProMotion I would have upgraded. Don’t need extra brightness, battery, or camera this year. My Max handles all three of those excellently.
 
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Yeah, mine says my order is on hold until they can approve my application since I’m on iUp. Shouldn’t that have been approved with the pre-approval? I do this every year and have never missed a payment. Should be automatic at this point.

Yep mine was iUp as well and now it says it’s on hold. Hopefully that doesn’t mess with the ship dates.
 
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This was the quickest that I've had Apple charge my CC. Usually it's over the weekend or first part of the next week, when it's going into shipping mode.
 
So if I’m out of the country and order a phone to pick up at an Apple store, how long would they hold it? What if it comes before I’m back in the country? Anyone had to do this on a preorder?
 
I will come the 20th

I just checked and At&t already charged my card which experience tells me I put in my order fast enough to get the initial "day of" delivery time frame. I won'tcount on the 19th but I'm confident of the 20th. Guess I'll be working from home that day awaiting delivery.
 
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