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AT&T here. I’m in the same boat as everyone else. The activation confirm your phone number screen has been spinning for a while. I’m just going to be patient and let it spin...
 
TOMORROW!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

what.the.EFF????????????
[doublepost=1509739179][/doublepost]so if this is happening at at$t, verizon and sprint, then that most definitively sounds like an apple issue
 
I’ve gotten to the “confirm number” screen a few times only to get bounced back to “could not”.
Can’t get anything through iTunes, just “phone”.
Activated sim online through AT&T, but had to take it out & put in my 7 to make calls.
This is like the old days
 
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AT&T here. I’m in the same boat as everyone else. The activation confirm your phone number screen has been spinning for a while. I’m just going to be patient and let it spin...

I got to that screen once. I finally got to the "confirm number" and then hit "next". Instead of a "try again" I got a spinning wheel, which kept on spinning. I had to reboot, but next time I'll just let it ride.

Has anyone who got the spinning wheel eventually gotten though?
 
I left out a detail actually. They said that the phone should show up in iTunes. Instead, I am getting this. They also said they can see it on their end as well.

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that's exactly what my screen looks like. dumb ups dude and late in the day delivery . . .
 
I got to that screen once. I finally got to the "confirm number" and then hit "next". Instead of a "try again" I got a spinning wheel, which kept on spinning. I had to reboot, but next time I'll just let it ride.

Has anyone who got the spinning wheel eventually gotten though?
Finally got to the same. Thought I was making progress
 
I got to that screen once. I finally got to the "confirm number" and then hit "next". Instead of a "try again" I got a spinning wheel, which kept on spinning. I had to reboot, but next time I'll just let it ride.

Has anyone who got the spinning wheel eventually gotten though?
I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Mine has been that way for almost an hour with no change.
 
Every time I make it to the phone number part I get a glimmer of hope.......and then.....blah
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I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Mine has been that way for almost an hour with no change.

I've been trying since 2PM eastern
 
It's definitely on Apple's end. My phone shows bars and it gave me the option to try again over cellular to clearly theres a connection to ATT. Apple's servers just cannot activate it

I agree ridiculous. what did they think, people were going to stare at them until Xmas in the box?
 
What a complete joke. Spend all day looking forward to unboxing and setting everything up, just to face this. I know its a first world problem but it gets old when you pay money for something that doesn't work.

It's also absurd that both companies seem to be pointing fingers at each other.
 
I got to that screen once. I finally got to the "confirm number" and then hit "next". Instead of a "try again" I got a spinning wheel, which kept on spinning. I had to reboot, but next time I'll just let it ride.

Has anyone who got the spinning wheel eventually gotten though?

Still spinning. Argh!!! I lost track of time, but it’s been spinning for over an hour.
 
I am having same issues as everyone else. ATT managed to activate line but still no luck getting through initial activate screen on phone. Get same blank screen when I connect in iTunes.
 
So nobody has been able to activate in the last couple hours it sounds like?
 
Between this crap and my wife's phone stuck in the Nov 17-24 debacle (when it showed Nov 3 the whole way until confirmation email) Apple is on a roll.
 
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