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Roy Hobbs

macrumors 68000
Apr 29, 2005
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But how do you do an upgrade swap if you are picking your iPhone up at an Apple store?? They will force me to activate under the # that is eligible in order to get the upgrade price correct??
 

aristobrat

macrumors G5
Oct 14, 2005
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But how do you do an upgrade swap if you are picking your iPhone up at an Apple store?? They will force me to activate under the # that is eligible in order to get the upgrade price correct??
The employees use an automated system. The process of buying it from Apple will automatically enter that phone's details + the number used to upgrade into AT&T's activation system. There's no way around that part of the system.

Theoretically, you can call AT&T and have that information changed after the sale, but before the Apple employee plugs your iPhone into one of the store's Macs and activates it for you.

Whether or not Apple will let you hold up that employee for an extra 10-15 minutes on launch day while you and AT&T try to work that out over the phone is the question.

It is Apple's policy that the device is opened, activated, and working before you leave the store. Although on the 3G launch, when there were activation issues, some stores let people take their iPhones home unactivated. Others didn't -- they literally stopped selling iPhones until they could be activated in the store.
 
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