Other 📱📱U.S.A. - Apple.com - New iPhone 16/Plus/Pro/Pro Max US Pre-Orders, Orders, and Delivery Status Thread (2024)

[stingazg]

The phone and watch arrived about 90 mins ago, setting up my phone now!!!

 

[ninethirty]

I already have the customer counter manager name from my buddy who works for UPS as a regional manager.

This is a cell phone we're talking about, my man. There are kids starving in this country. An extra day isn't going to matter.

 

[poppe]

I can't download it because I can't get any thing to go through because I don't have any way of getting my apps download - since I can't get a text message for dual authentication.

Alright if anyone has any activation issues. this is what happened to me:

Did the normal iPhone Transfer setup from iCloud. Tried to use the old iPhone for a transfer of the cellular service, but this created an issue where for some reason Verizon thought a fraud issue was happening. Took an hour on the phone with them to get it cleared through. Unfortunately because it's a family account, I couldn't just verify myself, I had to try and facetime with family (sense i couldn't get texts or calls) and have them verify the account was legit.

 

[AppleKash]

Someone just posted in this in an Apple forum:

“Same issue with me just now. I tracked UPS truck in my block and then suddenly received the government message. Went downstairs and behold UPS delivered it. May just be some glitch after all.”

 

[AppleKash]

This is a cell phone we're talking about, my man. There are kids starving in this country. An extra day isn't going to matter.

Maybe this person feeds those kids too?

 

[california_kid]

So my in-store pickup this year was a little interesting. I had a 10am time slot for my preorder. I arrive at the store this morning, wait in a very short line outside the store, someone then brings me in and brings me over to a service rep that is just finishing up with another person. No problem, I just wait while the service rep is working with the other customer to finish up their trade-in and get their old phone wiped. That person wasn't activating the new phone so the rep puts their new sealed phone in a bag and away that person goes.

So she turns to me and begins processing my order. She starts handling the phone that was brought out from the back and I start to notice that the box looks like it's a 256GB Black Titanium Pro Max. My order was for a 512GB Natural Titanium Pro Max. So I mention that and she looks confused and scans the phone and I immediately see the panic in her eyes. She had inadvertently grabbed the phone that they brought out for me and put it in the previous customers bag. While they had their phone number, that customer didn't activate the phone in store so they had no way to immediately contact them. For some reason this morning in the back they weren't applying any labels to the devices they were bringing out for customers.

So the manager comes over, he assures me that the other customer has no way to activate my number on that phone. They end having me cancel my order, luckily they still had stock of my model and storage, so they were able to put another order through and get what I ordered and then they processed the trade-in. So it took longer than expected to do my in-store pickup this year but wasn't a huge deal, I still got my new phone and exactly what I wanted. The manager even had me pick out a case and a screen protector and it was all on them. So some decent freebies to go with my new phone.

Nice!

If this happened to me, I would be the one walking away with the wrong phone and Apple would have called the police on me and have me arrested.

 

[azhava]

Is UPS delivering without signatures this year?

They didn't for me, he didn't hand me the boxes until I signed on his device.

 

[ninethirty]

Maybe this person feeds those kids too?

That's wonderful, but I'm not sure what it has to do with receiving your phone a day late. It's just not worth ruining some minimum wage workers day over. They aren't going to wake someone up to pull your forgotten phone from a warehouse, so why bother anyway?

 

[timborama]

Has anyone had their UPS time window change?

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Yup, my phone arrived 3 hours before the estimated window (which isn3 hours before his usual window). Must be a slow day.

 

[ashkir]

Second phone got an updated delivery time to 7PM.

 

[David Knowles]

I did have to sign for my packages.

They came hours after the estimate I had this morning.

I might try an in store pickup next time.

At the same time, I love getting a new iPhone, I also hate it. I have to sign into everything again and make sure everything transferred over.

 

[BabyFu18]

My phone finally arrived, after tracking the ups truck in my vicinity multiple times throughout the day, but it doesn’t matter cause it’s here!

 

[applewatch]

Is anyone else having issues transferring the phone number to the new phone? Rats. Never had this kind of trouble with a new setup.

I did!

I had a few other eSims connected and I deleted the others and it started working.

Dunno if this will help you

 

[kpnss85]

Is anyone else having issues transferring the phone number to the new phone? Rats. Never had this kind of trouble with a new setup.

I saw a different post about a similar issue on here. Are you setting up as new, or did you do the quick start with your phone or transfer from your previous phone?

 

[AppleKash]

That's wonderful, but I'm not sure what it has to do with receiving your phone a day late. It's just not worth ruining some minimum wage workers day over. They aren't going to wake someone up to pull your forgotten phone from a warehouse, so why bother anyway?

I suppose the manager is there to deal with questions and issues such as this one. But you’re right, a day or two doesn’t make a big difference. But it is annoying.

 

[tangfish]

Couldn’t be held hostage at home anymore so went and found my UPS truck in the neighborhood. See you all next year!

 

[vegastime]

Mine just changed to pending release from a government agency…

It was scanned onto the truck.

Same thing for me. Hope it's just a glitch. Have to work all day and night tomorrow, so won't be home for delivery.

 

[dave006]

Is anyone else having issues transferring the phone number to the new phone? Rats. Never had this kind of trouble with a new setup.

Did you follow your Carrier's eSIM instructions? You might also try powering off your new iPhone and trying again. Do you happen to have a Verizon account?

Dave

 

[yeah]

Ah yes, the UPS drivers purposefully wait until the night time to deliver my phone today.

 

[Placehold5894]

Ok folks its was fun spending another year with y'all. I Probably won't be upgrading next year every 2 years seems to be beneficial to me. Until then good day!

 

[BradLA]

Mine's been out for delivery since 9am (it's 3:30pm). Been following the UPS truck on their map drive all around my neighborhood, just passing me by over and over. It's all I can think about! 🤣

 

[preciousiphoneaddict]

i need help.. cant use iphone 16 pro max its doing this.. ive done hard reset and all that.. nothing is happening. its frustrating. has any of you experiencing this

 

[baummer]

Was showing out for delivery, now showing pending delivery date after government clearance.

 

[AppleKash]

Was showing out for delivery, now showing pending delivery date after government clearance.

I am hoping it’s a glitch. Because I saw in another forum where someone got the same update but then, it was still delivered shortly thereafter anyways.

 

[ScoutTactics8]

Well damn it! I was tracking the UPS truck the whole way to my house on the app and my 16 PM ended up not even being on the truck! So it got scanned and then either someone at the UPS center probably snagged it or it got put on a different truck. Ugh, now I have to wait for the person at the center to get back to me.