After you go through the selection process of what phone you want, carrier selection, apple care, etc, it will have a big blue button at the end of the screen that says Get ready for pre-order. Then you just go through the steps.
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Other USA iPhone Air /17/17 Pro/ 17 Max/ Pre-Release, Order And Dispatch Thread
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1) If your wife makes her own order, she would have to designate you by name on who's picking it up. Apple Stores has a bunch of orders fraudulently picked up over the past year so expect that verification of identity will be more demanding. If it were me, I'd order both on my Apple account.
2) Trading in to AT&T - they should send you a box and Apple wouldn't be expecting to get your old phone at Pickup. You owe the phone to AT&T, not Apple based on your post.
I've seen it for IUP folks where they could turn in their phones immediately at pickup. I normally do ISPU and even if they ask me if I want to turn in my phone, I say NO - cause I need it for all the transfer of data to setup my new phone and watch. Then, again, on IUP, I can go back to the store at a later date to turn it in...something on the order of a couple of weeks from pickup actually.
Thanks; I swore I did Veterans with 2 get ready carts for the 15 round - I did 2 and we were first and second on line (appointments) and got in immediately with all the discounts - so seems they removed it this time around. It's about $125 per phone so adds up, but I guess the risk of OOS / delays is the price you pay. Not in a massive rush but just want to avoid months of waiting.
What's annoying is on the top of the veterans page it has the "Save time at iPhone pre‑order. Get the prep work done now, then speed through checkout on 9.12. Get Started" thing - even though it seems this is fully not an option.
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Last year I had Safari open on my Mac and my phone, and the Apple store app open on my phone, and I togged between them until I finally got in. I'm not sure if any is faster or not. ETA: Your pre-order is available both ways.
So damn happy they didn’t raise the prices for the pro max. Gonna get orange. Not sure whether to get 512GB or 1TB though. I’m about 70-ish GB from filling up my current 512GB iPhone. Guess I still have a day to decide lol
I feel like this process of trying and failing with the Veterans store is part of my personal iPhone purchasing ritual. Saving the ˜$100 is worth it, for me.
Simpler and quicker to order on carrier site than trying to get through on Apple Store.
I figured out last night that I had to go onto the carrier site and pay off my old phone before this message would disappear.
This is a new 40W charger from Apple that does fast charging.
Mine stats that for Verizon but I haven’t paid off my 15P and I’m on the older Play More plan.
I am on iUP and I have always shipped be preorder to receive on launch day and my first payment would be charged the day it shipped and began it's journey and future payments were on the same day of the month going forward. My question is, if I do in store pickup, when does the first payment get charged? If the phone is ready on the 19th but I don’t pickup until the 21st, is my payment on the 21st now or sooner because it shipped/was ready sooner?
Along the same line, if I preorder and get launch day availability, am I able to schedule my in store pick up a couple days after launch and not lose my phone? Or does it have to be picked up immediately?
This is a first for me, I always ship, but we live in an apartment where I can’t sign for a package and on top of that, my wife is giving me grief that because of the nature of launch day phones, my payment is always on a financially inconvenient day. Trying to engineer my situation this year.
Along the same line, if I preorder and get launch day availability, am I able to schedule my in store pick up a couple days after launch and not lose my phone? Or does it have to be picked up immediately?
This is a first for me, I always ship, but we live in an apartment where I can’t sign for a package and on top of that, my wife is giving me grief that because of the nature of launch day phones, my payment is always on a financially inconvenient day. Trying to engineer my situation this year.
Verizon here. It’s been about 30 min since I paid it off and still same message. I do also have a compatible new plan
My 16PM ISPU charged on the day I picked it up - 9/20/2024. You'll pay tax for the whole phone tomorrow morning when you put the pre-order in.
You select the day and time window for your ISPU and it doesn't have to be the 19th. You can book out a few days I think.
