After that arrival scan it just sits there, it still needs to go through the paperwork and once that is cleared, which you got, it will then be loaded onto a plan. Right now it's probably sitting on the tarmac but not on the plan yet.
Wonder if they wait for particular flight or enough pallets to fill a scheduled cargo plane always curious to see the logistics and not see everything going on.
Hope so was in at 5 past hour and by time I re-entered card info that I had already entered on the preapproval couple days earlier it had slipped to this date. Mine is showing shipped and has cleared Chinese paperwork but at that point probably on pallets at airport waiting for enough to send or something. Says it arrives tomorrow but I am not sure that will be the case now that nothing showed today in movement from that point.
It’s amazing what can happen in 24 hours with an iPhone shipment. If it has shipped and it says delivery is tomorrow, you’ll get it tomorrow.
Yes I agree they usually do this. Yep it says shipped and delivers tomorrow so hopefully no issues come up. UPS is good but not 100% things come up beyond even their control. I was in a shipment that almost got delayed by typhoon in Taiwan which was a stop with that phone before Anchorage but it still made it LOL
I wonder how many of us who were in that first half hour of opening and got this date got the shift to shipping. I only heard of a couple others on here who got shipped or preparing to ship in past several days. Like someone said this morning though they are betting more activity soon this week for some of us on this date range
As far as the ups end of it goes, keep in mind the client, iPhone launches are apples Super Bowls. As you said, even natural disasters have little impact. If those phones aren’t delivered on time, apple will and has switched carriers.
I had wondered about that, if that is why it surprisingly changed to "shipping". I did have a WTF conversation with an Apple Store representative after my preorder issues with the order I had carefully prepared as recommended.
Mine is almost same scan info as your except the release occurred late morning on the 25th China time. I have seen this happen with all scans from there to Louisville or even later not populating til delivery day. We shall see
Yep I am now wondering same. If it were really here today in town and had gone thru Louisville we would see updated info at least for that. I think the shipping problems out of china affecting other shipping has hit us and apple. I would be surprised to see it show up even though UPS still says arrives today, Apple has sent all emails regarding my phone (applecare, the loan/amount mail ect). Something is wrongStill says
Estimated delivery
Tuesday, September 28 between 1:15 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.
but still no progress updates since:
09/25/2021
7:08 P.M.
Dunno what is going on, no scans in AK or KY. I wonder if theres some sort of backup in China keeping it from leaving
Well here is supposed arrival day for the phone still no tracking since China departure scans. If the phone is in town for delivery today (east central Illinois) I would expect Louisville (with customs) and local scans. But there is nothing. I think Apple and UPS have issues with shipping this batch. Of course apple since it shipped said Friday October 1 not today but follow closer tracking with UPS — what a joke this is getting to be with UPS.
It depends. I remember for the 12 and 12 Pro pre-orders last year October, all the tracking said was that it would deliver on Wednesday (two days early ahead of it's actual launch) but it eventually corrected itself to be delivered on Friday.
Generally UPS is more accurate. Apple often has a conservative date, even original date (even though shipped sometimes). But the scanning on UPS can get fubar real fast and updates end after China, miss Anchorage and do not show till Louisville and not update til I have my phone. This time its worse as I my 10/6 to 10/11 phone suddenly shipped on early Saturday with tracking like yours. Apple moved to same date as yours but said check UPS and the UPS tracking is stuck with leaving China with paperwork and all done, but nothing since like this below. I think that this group of phones is stuck in China and I will be surprised if they arrive otherwise there would be local scans and Louisville scans. I am getting my return box for old phone also via UPS not the usual FedEx and that is tracking and arriving tomorrow so tracking in US is working but I do not thinking our phones are here in US
