iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max deliveries slip to October [Updated again] – Uplaza

It’s already too late to preorder an iPhone 16 Professional Max and have it delivered on its September 20 launch day. Three hours after preorders started as we speak, the supply window for iPhone 16 Professional Max slipped to mid-October.

It’s not simply clients placing in orders who care. Analysts watch these supply instances to guage demand for Apple handsets.

Replace: A day after preorders started, the await iPhone 16 Professional Max nonetheless stretches to mid-October, whereas supply for iPhone 16 Professional fashions now begins in early October.

iPhone 16 Professional Max seems to be the most well-liked

iPhone 16 Professional Max is Apple’s top-of-the-line new mannequin, and it’s more likely to be the most well-liked. It could possibly be as a result of it affords the most important display screen within the new collection: 6.9 inches. And traditionally, the premier system attracts probably the most consideration. Demand for iPhone 15 Professional Max simply outpaced shipments of its sister fashions.

Preliminary demand for the most recent Professional Max appears to point that historical past will repeat itself: It turned the primary iPhone 16 variant to run by way of the prerelease provide. When preorders started early Friday, the net Apple Retailer listed the cargo date as September 20. Inside an hour, these ordering the Professional Max from the Apple web site found the telephones wouldn’t ship till between October 2 and October 7. Three hours after Apple began taking preorders, the supply window shifted once more to October 7 by way of October 14.

In distinction, an hour after preorders began, no transport delays affected every other model from the iPhone 16 lineup. At the moment, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus and iPhone 16 Professional all appear accessible for supply on September 20.

Replace:  By Saturday morning, orders positioned for iPhone 16 Professional on Apple’s web site wouldn’t arrive till October 1 on the earliest.   Nevertheless, iPhone 16 and  iPhone 16 Plus can each be preordered for supply on September 20.

Judging iPhone demand from wait instances is a dicey enterprise, though analysts do it. Whether or not the transport date for a brand new mannequin slips depends upon what number of items Apple produced as a lot as what number of clients need to purchase. However Apple is aware of its clients and makes extra of the Professional Max than it does for the opposite fashions, in line with analysts. Demand exceeding the early provide looks as if a optimistic signal for Cupertino.

Excellent news!

These desperate to get an iPhone 16 Professional Max don’t essentially want to attend till October for it, although. A examine by Cult of Mac two hours after preorders started discovered items of the much-sought-after mannequin accessible for pickup in Apple retail shops on September 20. That mentioned, not each variant remains to be accessible for launch-day pickup in each Apple retail location. Those that dwell close to a big metropolis may must hunt round to seek out an Apple retailer with an allocation of the variant they need.

Additionally, Apple at all times reserves inventory of latest iPhone fashions for walk-in clients on launch day. Those that can’t preorder the iPhone 16 Professional Max can at all times go to an Apple Retailer on September 20, then stand in line and hope.

These nonetheless making an attempt to determine in the event that they actually need the Professional Max or ought to select one other model can learn the Cult of Mac information on whether or not to go Professional or no.