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I go to sleep and wake up to 30+ pages of updates — awesome job everyone lol. So what else did I miss aside from the possibility that the wrong planes were tracked and the fact that those leaked Pacific Blue pics look awesome?!?

I will say though, that Graphite is looking so much better than I would have originally expected.
 
if you have seen this for the last few days as I have ( for four days now ), I believe our phones are already in Louisville waiting to be put on a flight or truck for delivery. probably because these phones were shipped out on the 13th of this month and sent to the warehouse befor we even ordered while others are now being sent via UPS flights from China. That’s my best guess since my applecare plus email has been received and still preparing for shipment as you see yours. Apple probably shipped a whole bunch of iPhones from China on the day it was announced and when we ordered a few days later Apple just looked at the inventory and assigned and iPhone at the warehouse for us. Just a guess and nothing more
The preparing for shipment means absolutely nothing, in fact almost everyone whose active in this thread has orders that just say “preparing for shipment.” We’ve all just used UPS tracking by reference number in order to see our tracking.
 
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Yea that pacific blue on certain lighting angle, it just looks amazing. I'm glad I got the pacific blue. I had the space gray model for many previous generations so it's getting boring.
 
Good Morning!
So both my phones have depart scans from Alaska 30 mins after they arrived which seems too quick for having refueled right? One is in exception the other isn’t but both show Wednesday still lol
 
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We’ve taken off and have a 4hr 53min flight. Time for me drinking. 🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾
 

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The preparing for shipment means absolutely nothing, in fact almost everyone whose active in this thread has orders that just say “preparing for shipment.” We’ve all just used UPS tracking by reference number in order to see our tracking.

I have used UPS tracking and the reference number and still nothing. that is 4 days I’ve seen preparing for shipment. so using the reference number or the phone number or the order number with and without the last two digits did not work. So that’s why I believe mine is in Louisville waiting to be put on the truck or flight to my home address. I believe the phone was already in Louisville and Apple just assigned the iPhone that I selected on the day that we can pre-order and now waiting for the release.
 
Usually this stuff isn’t offloaded in Alaska just refuel and continue on.

Yeah, not sure why I second-guessed myself. I used to import from overseas so I know for a fact that UPS custom hub is in Louisville and FedEx’s hub is Memphis.
 
I have used UPS tracking and the reference number and still nothing. that is 4 days I’ve seen preparing for shipment. so using the reference number or the phone number or the order number with and without the last two digits did not work. So that’s why I believe mine is in Louisville waiting to be put on the truck or flight to my home address. I believe the phone was already in Louisville and Apple just assigned the iPhone that I selected on the day that we can pre-order and now waiting for the release.
I agree with you. Mine still says ‘preparing’ and when I search for my order on UPS, it shows in transit with delivery by Wednesday, but no detail on the transit. So I think it’s just sitting in Louisville waiting.
 
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I have used UPS tracking and the reference number and still nothing. that is 4 days I’ve seen preparing for shipment. so using the reference number or the phone number or the order number with and without the last two digits did not work. So that’s why I believe mine is in Louisville waiting to be put on the truck or flight to my home address. I believe the phone was already in Louisville and Apple just assigned the iPhone that I selected on the day that we can pre-order and now waiting for the release.

I ordered within the first ten minutes and was stuck in “processing” until this morning. I was beginning to wonder something like this, but my phone is in ZhenZhou and pretty sure yours is too. We just happened to not be in he initial waves to be processed and shipped.
 
I go to sleep and wake up to 30+ pages of updates — awesome job everyone lol. So what else did I miss aside from the possibility that the wrong planes were tracked and the fact that those leaked Pacific Blue pics look awesome?!?

I will say though, that Graphite is looking so much better than I would have originally expected.
I'm wondering if the other UPS number I have (my case came yesterday) is my Magsafe charger… it shows a tentative delivery date of Wednesday and that's the day my charger showed in the Apple Store app when I first ordered it. I don't think I'm seeing another tracking number that would be the iPhone
 
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