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Apple’s standard Return policy allows for a 14 day grace period. Just make sure you hold on to the old phone. See below from the IUP terms and conditions. Once that old phone is given back, you can’t get it back either. Of course, don’t hold onto the old phone so Long that they also assume you are keeping the old one, too. Tricky balance.

“Return of New, Upgraded iPhone After Exercising Upgrade Option. Should you exercise the Upgrade Option and subsequently return your new, upgraded iPhone under the terms of Apple’s Returns and Refunds Policy, the Financed iPhone that you traded in will not be returned to you and the New Installment Loan associated with your new, upgraded iPhone will be terminated.”
Would it be possible to do the return in store you think?
 
Would it be possible to do the return in store you think?
Depends on your state/county and COVID restrictions. Best bet would be to make a Genius Bar appt. I know here in LA that our one store (Manhattan Beach) is inside a mall - so people are doing drive up pickups with reservations.
 
Depends on your state/county and COVID restrictions. Best bet would be to make a Genius Bar appt. I know here in LA that our one store (Manhattan Beach) is inside a mall - so people are doing drive up pickups with reservations.
I don't know how this works, but when Pre-Orders went live my local Apple Store inside the mall, Showed you can pickup the phone there. Now since we went back a stage with COVID, Its showing you can't do any pickups at that location. So if anyone did do an in-store pickup, How would they get it?
 
I went through this last year. I ordered the Max and decided it was too big. I watched the Apple Store inventory for the phone I wanted, and when I found it, I placed an online order to pick up at that store. When I went to pick it up, I took the Max to return. The IUP worked perfectly. It created a new loan for the new phone and cancelled the original loan from the return. I also took my old phone and they took it at the store. I expected all kinds of things to go wrong but they didn’t.
So we’ll have to wait for the right phone to show stock available ? That could be for a few weeks because of the Max delay this year.. wondering how it would work. I can return the new phone to Apple and then just pre order her the Max too?
 
My graphite pro is arriving to my house tomorrow. I want to switch it out for gold after seeing all the incredible photos today but there is no stock at my Apple store. Any chance they’ll add stock on launch day so I can trade them?
 
So one of my phones is on its way to the local hub in mia, the other just left Orlando, for what I can only imagine is by truck due to no new flights happening anytime soon. Just so odd they weren’t shipped together.
 
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