I’m in the same boat. Looks to me 9/20 batch is cursed…
Sure seems like it, delivery date slipped again this morning. Now October
Still in China
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Sure seems like it, delivery date slipped again this morning. Now October
Still in China
Finally moved to preparing to ship for my preorder with an initial delivery window of 10/7-14 (first year when upgrading not getting it on launch day) but when it moved to PTS it moved my delivery window back to 10/15-22. Anyone else had this issue?
I believe I found my tracking info, but it’s all masked cause I’m having it delivered to my office and I can’t add the address to MyChoice. Ugh.
I believe I found my tracking info, but it’s all masked cause I’m having it delivered to my office and I can’t add the address to MyChoice. Ugh.
Rejoice! Your iPhone is finally on a plane out of China! Next stop should be Incheon South Korea, then on to anchorage AK, Louisville KY and finally your local hub. Should be two business days in transit. If all goes well, delivery on Monday.
Correct!
About 2 days and should be at your local hub.
Remember, passing the date line regains almost a whole day too...
It appears as though my phone moved from Zhengzhou to Shanghai early yesterday morning, but has been stuck in Shanghai since 6:40am (PDT) yesterday. No movement since. I'm hoping maybe it's on the move and just missed a departure scan. UPS was telling me it would delivery on Monday, Sept 30, but now the delivery date has been removed and is pending. 
Just got my tracking number from Apple! I’m still in China awaiting final clearance but I can actually see my full details. My delivery date now says 10/2! This has been a wild morning of iPhone emotions after nothing since preorder day
wow, I've also ordered on sept 13th, and estimated arrival dates shown as Oct 7-14, but in my case it's still showing "preparing" since 13th Sept
Mine was the same until this morning it went to preparing to ship overnight and the Apple delivery window went to the 15th to 22nd then it moved to shipped a few hours later and ups says a delivery date of 10/2 while Apple still says 15-22. A lot of activity in a few hours after almost 2 weeks of nothing
Heads up, the last three iPhone 16 Pros I’ve picked up (for work, family, etc) have all had terrible displays with massive blue shift upon tilting the phone slightly. All have been returned. The apple store employee mentioned they’ve gotten lots of returns recently due to displays. I wonder if this new round of phones are using a different manufacturer. Gonna hold off for a bit to see if things improve.
I thought Samsung manufactured 50% of the iPhone OLED screens. LG and BOE split the remaining OLED panels.
Dave
Well one or two of those manufacturers is producing a low quality panel. Three in a row all from recent shipments but different dates and colors. All had the issue. The store units look night and day better with no blue shift upon tilting
I'll bet the defective panels are from BOE. Google them to see their history of QC problems.
Edit: Googling more, it looks like BOE didn't make any of the iPhone 16 Pro panels.
Just go back 1 page and see the post from @piker944. Their iPhone left China this week. Post your UPS tracking details and we can determine if your device is really still in China or on it's way to you.
Dave
It look like your iPhone is sitting at the ZhengZhou Holding facility. Do you happen to have a delivery date of Oct. 1-3?
There is an Atlas Air flight GTI8351 due to leave CGO in about 18 hours to Anchorage where it often offloads Cargo to UPS for the trip to SDF (Louisville). It made this same run on Sept. 14th for last weeks launch day deliveries.
Dave
Mine shipped last Saturday 9/21, and then just sat there for several days. Finally departed today, quickly went thru Korea, landed in Anchorage and then departed.
But UPS drama continues: UPS is showing will deliver next Tuesday, 10/1. Not sure why it's going to take 5 days from today, after it departed Anchorage. This would be 10 days total from shipping to arrival. insane.
Maybe Apple needs to consider going back to Fedex or at least splitting their China shipping business between them. UPS clearly cannot handle any volume without collapsing.
Your iPhone will not move through the US based UPS system over the weekend. It will leave Louisville (SDF) on Monday ( late afternoon - early AM Tuesday. What was your original estimated window from Apple?
Your iPhone was not shipped on a flight all alone. It sat waiting for the freight volume to fill a flight and not just leave on the next possible flight to leave CGO.
UPS handled the Launch day volume just fine and is currently handling ongoing routing and deliveries just fine.
Dave
Apple says Monday. Like others UPS said today earlier this week and then changed to the ‘updating plans’ line. Guess we’ll see what happens. Thanks for the guess on the flight.