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Same here! Looks like we're all on the same plane! :cool:
Might be a truck. Mine departed ZZ at 6:25 9/14 and the next scan was a hub/sorting center still in ZZ.
Thanks to whoever suggested AfterShip once you get the tracking number. That’s showing that the facility is a hub instead of the vague “facility” showing up on UPS.
 
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I got tracking for the phone but nothing yet on the watch or AirPods.

I’m not concerned. All will come on Friday.

Looking forward to Friday even more this week…
 
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This may be an easy question, but I thought I would ask it anyway: If I'm doing ISPU with the IPU program, do I have to setup the new phone in-store or can I bring it home and do the setup? I generally don't like restoring from a backup when I get a new phone as I like to do a fresh install everything.
 
I got tracking for the phone but nothing yet on the watch or AirPods.

I’m not concerned. All will come on Friday.

Looking forward to Friday even more this week…
I’ve seen nothing on my watch either and it’s my first year ordering one for launch day. Is it possible the watches are already stateside since they let you pre-order so much earlier? My phone is tracking but I haven’t tried doing any reference number tracking on the watch.
 
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How did you get shipment release authorized? I live in a very rural area where the gate is about 300’ from my front door. I leave the gate open for the driver but my POS new driver won’t let me know when he’s at my gate and won’t come to my door so I get the dreaded Sorry we missed you message, even though I’m sitting by the front door. I really don’t want to sit out by the gate all day waiting for him.
if you have ups my choice, you will have the option to authorize release automatically, and you’ll just sign it online right there
 
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Track by reference worked! Kinda! I learned nothing new lol

Oh but I'm glad it says 7pm, hopefully it sticks with that time because I want to be able to sign for it after work.

By the way, the full order number worked.

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This may be an easy question, but I thought I would ask it anyway: If I'm doing ISPU with the IPU program, do I have to setup the new phone in-store or can I bring it home and do the setup? I generally don't like restoring from a backup when I get a new phone as I like to do a fresh install everything.
My experience in the Apple store is that if you’re going to transfer data from the old phone it will take a lifetime as everyone is eating up the bandwidth.
 
This may be an easy question, but I thought I would ask it anyway: If I'm doing ISPU with the IPU program, do I have to setup the new phone in-store or can I bring it home and do the setup? I generally don't like restoring from a backup when I get a new phone as I like to do a fresh install everything.
I would ask what your options are when you go there. I did this last year and they had me trade in my old phone and tried to swap the carrier info over to the new one, but I said I would set it up fully when I got home. Once I got home and tried to set up the new phone. It wanted me to confirm information on the old one which I couldn’t do and I ended up having to go to the AT&T store to purchase a new eSim from them because whatever the person at the Apple Store made it impossible for the cell service to be activated on my new phone. By the time I finally got the phone set up and everything resolved. I realize that if I had just waited for shipping, I would’ve been done way earlier in the day even though my UPS driver doesn’t come until like 4 o’clock on launch day.
 
This may be an easy question, but I thought I would ask it anyway: If I'm doing ISPU with the IPU program, do I have to setup the new phone in-store or can I bring it home and do the setup? I generally don't like restoring from a backup when I get a new phone as I like to do a fresh install everything.
You can do setup at home.
 
My experience in the Apple store is that if you’re going to transfer data from the old phone it will take a lifetime as everyone is eating up the bandwidth.
This.

I'm bringing mine home and then I'll go back on Monday when it's less busy, as long as I do it before the refund window expires. I also want them to install the screen protector.
 
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When i search on web with deleting the last two digits of the order number, something appears like that. However, when i use UPS app on my phone, nothing appears. I have a My Choice account, with all the contact information available. How can i track my phone with full details? I ordered a 16 Pro Max 256GB Desert Titanium.
I'm late to the game this morning and catching up on posts, but I bet you have the full number now in UPS MyChoice. That number you showed above showing only the last 4 usually shows up first before the full number in UPS MyChoice.
 
I’ve seen nothing on my watch either and it’s my first year ordering one for launch day. Is it possible the watches are already stateside since they let you pre-order so much earlier? My phone is tracking but I haven’t tried doing any reference number tracking on the watch.
I believe my watch was stateside last year so it’s possible we won’t see anything on it for a day or 2.
 
Look what I found, so what wave is that lol
I'm guessing Wave 2, since this was the timeframe I was in last year and you are I are very similar in times. Do you have a Departing & Arriving in Zhengzhou which seem backwards like in my pic on my other post? Those are probably the same times as mine.
 
Is 9/14/2024 7:15p Arrived at Zheng Zhou what we are calling wave 1?
Yes, I would say so and then they will merge with Wave 2 enroute and arrive in Louisville together on the same plane, at least that's how it happened before. :)
 
I figure we won’t seen any movement until late tonight or Monday sometime. China is like 12 hours ahead of us depending on where you are, I’m in central Florida.
 
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Agree. Doesn’t really matter when they get stateside, they all have to wait to clear customs, get scanned in Louisville, and then come home to us. I know very few instances when they didn’t arrive on the promised date.
I remember one year UPS flights delayed due to weather.

That fiasco caused a lot of us to not receive it on launch day.

UPS tried to make it up by delivering on Saturday & Sunday....
 
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