Apple delays some iPhone 14 Professional pre-orders

The primary iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Professional pre-orders are beginning to arrive to consumers all over the world. For some consumers, nonetheless, Friday gained’t be “iPhone 14 Day” in any case. In line with reviews on social media and from 9to5Mac readers, Apple is delaying some iPhone 14 pre-orders that had been initially promised for September 16 launch day supply.

Some iPhone 14 Professional pre-orders delayed

Most years, Apple is conservative with transport estimates for brand new iPhones. We nearly by no means hear of conditions the place the corporate promised a client launch day supply, however then delays that supply after the very fact. What’s extra widespread is that Apple quotes consumers a later supply, then beats that estimates.

This 12 months, nonetheless, the iPhone 14 launch has been a bit rocky. On pre-order day final week, the Apple Retailer On-line and Apple Retailer app each confronted main outages as clients rushed to order the brand new units. This led to a mess of issues, together with that some clients ended up with a number of iPhone 14 pre-orders resulting from system errors, whereas others ended up with nothing.

Now, it appears has Apple over-promised and is under-delivering for some iPhone 14 consumers. Stories are surfacing on social media that Apple is delaying some iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max orders that had been initially quoted for September 16 supply. 9to5Mac has additionally straight heard from readers whose orders are going through comparable delays.

Normally, Apple is pushing these estimated supply dates again by round per week to September 23, however we’ve additionally heard from readers whose orders have been pushed to September 30. Some consumers had been notified earlier this week concerning the delays, whereas others weren’t knowledgeable till right this moment.

These delays seem to solely be affecting the iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max. The bottom mannequin iPhone 14 is just not almost as provide constrained because the “Professional” fashions. Additionally keep in mind that the iPhone 14 Plus doesn’t launch till October 7.

As disappointing as this information is to the affected iPhone 14 consumers, it’s not stunning given these pre-order system glitches. Ideally, Apple will nonetheless be capable to beat its transport estimates, even when it’s solely by a few days. The iPhone 14 Professional delays don’t look like extremely widespread (but). Nevertheless it’s nonetheless far more widespread this 12 months than in earlier years.

At present, most iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max variants are quoting supply estimates of mid-to-late October by way of the Apple Retailer On-line.

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