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iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro Now Available for Pre-Order
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Anyone getting this message:
Your complete order history cannot be displayed right now.
Check back in a few hours to see all your orders.
Both in app and browser.
Your complete order history cannot be displayed right now.
Check back in a few hours to see all your orders.
Both in app and browser.
I also had trouble with my second order. Not sure if it was cause i was trying to make apple card payments. I paid in full with my apple card and it went through.
Same thing happened to me. I only found out delv date pushed back AFTEr I placed the order. I noticed it on my confirm email. Had to do a double take since I didn't believe it. Why go through the pre-complete process yesterday only to have Apple screw it up? Plus the nickel & diming with the lack of charger etc is souring me on Apple after all this time. I still have my original Mac from 1984. Under TC, Apple has become a commodities business instead of the lifestyle dream Steve had. I don't even care for the product reveals anymore. Too slick a presentation (and boring).
Yah I was going to order blue, but then I saw some edge on picture of the gold and was reading that the pro versions are glossy shiny - so I figured go with the bling! I got mossy green last year, but I never get to see it out of the case, so I am not so fussy about colours anymore.
I feel your pain. Same here for a 12Pro. Did your shipping date slip from Oct 23 to Oct 30-Nov3 like mine did?
Yeah, don't worry - happens every year. Previously the order confirmation emails haven't even gone out till hours after ordering, but that seems to have been quicker this year.
Having sold my iPhone X today I REALLY needed the order to go through. Only so many calls you can make on the AW. Was a faff, tried the app and the website. Eventually ordered a 128Gb Graphite 12 Pro and Cyprus Green case, but the delivery time had slipped to October 28th for the iPhone by the time my order went through.
Let's hope here in the UK Apple doesn't decide to give Yodel the task of delivering these phones......
Let's hope here in the UK Apple doesn't decide to give Yodel the task of delivering these phones......
I don't understand why they still can't make a smooth pre-order process happen. I guess Tim won't spend any extra dollars on a better process.
Agree.
Once the store went live (maybe 2-minutes after the bell) I was greeted with my iUP pre-order and within 3 quick taps, I saw the same 10/23 delivery date for my 256 pacific blue pro. Stupid easy.
That said, I’ve been an Apple user since 1991 - back when they were the counter-culture underdog that catered to the artists, the disrupters, the crazy ones. It was a cool era to be growing through. It’s fascinating to see how far Apple has come. People bash Tim, repeat “Steve would never...,” etc. For me, the single decision I feel took the biggest toll on the culture, on that which separated Apple from the rest, was the Angela-era decision to forego brick and mortar launch day queue lines in favor of ordering new schwag in your underwear. All of the energy, the fun, the community and camaraderie discarded in the name of convenience. I understand it was inevitable. I get that. Just unfortunate. Obviously, the world still rotates. Apple’s value continues to climb. But sometimes, what makes something special, what makes something matter, something resonate, just can’t be measured by the bean counters. Again, feel lucky to have known what made Apple, Apple.
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Purchased three iPhone12 Pros no problem.
Could not purchase leather magsafe cases = problem.
Could not purchase duoCharger = annoyance.
Could not purchase leather magsafe cases = problem.
Could not purchase duoCharger = annoyance.
My 12 Pro Pacific Blue did slip to October 30-Nov 3 even after only about 5 minutes in. I am wondering if Apple underestimated the demand for the blue variant of the Pro models.
Stuff that's not on pre-order will get charged as soon as they start processing it for delivery, pre-order stuff (e.g. phone) gets charged when they ship, often the same day you receive it. They sometimes put an authorisation hold on funds on your credit card when you order, but this clears after a couple of days and people start panicking every year because they think Apple have cancelled their orders when they see the money showing as available on their cards again.
Well, here is the thing. Apple has one of the better preorder systems. It’s not so much an Apple thing as it is an overall internet server design issue.
Name one company that takes millions upon millions of preorders in mere hours that doesn’t have issues, and I will kindly retract my statement (looking at you Sony and Microsoft). At least Apple does preorders instead of just doing a straight launch day and once it’s out of stock you can’t order... looking at Nvidia and their 3000 series launah debacle.
All I am trying to say is this is inevitable, and not sure much can be done to improve it with the server tech that currently exists.
I think it is a huge amount of banking data. Imagine looking at a histogram on a big Teevee showing live orders. It would be something wild to see. Many many orders every second. Hard to cope with that volume of transactions.
I checked the iPhone 12 just now, and all of the sizes are still showing shipping next week. So, one may think that either the Mini or the Max may be the star of the show this year, Apple has a huge stock to run through, or its just not feasible for people to upgrade their phones this year. Either way, is interesting.
same thing happened to my wife!! Although she signed into the app only at 7:45am so maybe that was the reason?
Your 2nd bullet isn’t accurate. Ordered phone for my son through installment plan from my phone.
You had to complete a different order process!! What is not clear about that?
Apple Pay is instant, Pre-Approval for finance is not.
