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This happened to me as well. Forgot to ask about a delay so this is good news.
Yes. its very common. the CC company will hold a pending charge for around five days, and it will come off if no actual charge is made by then.
Has anyone found their tracking numbers yet? Typically you can find them on UPS before Apple provides them.
Based on my previous buying experiences, preorders may be handled differently than other products. It looks like the earliest 'Arrives Date' is May 21. If that does not move up, you can expect movement from Preparing to Ship to Shipped next week. I recall another of my orders sat in Preparing To Ship for nearly one week. Other 'already released' products were in and out of Preparing To Ship in a matter of hours. Bottom line: Watch your Arrives Date. If the date holds, shipping usually occurs about 2 or 3 days ahead of that. I will check my order early next week to see if it starts moving. The Apple deity does this to us to teach the value of Patience. I am still learning....
12.9 1TB cellular, US, order confirmation received 5:11am Pacific (Apple) time, Processing, Delivery June 9-23.
Wonder if the iPad marketing team messed up their forecast, underestimated demand for 1TB units.
Wonder if the iPad marketing team messed up their forecast, underestimated demand for 1TB units.
That happened to me with my AirPods Max, and really no issue, just chatted with Apple since I used my Apple Card they took care of it easy.
My ATT order is still showing in process, with a delivery date of May 21-28. My Apple Pencil did ship today though, from China, and is expected to be her on the 19th, just in time for the new iPad.
12.9-inch with 256 storage, no engraving, has always showed May 21-28 delivery and just moved to Preparing to Ship. Not showing up in my UPS roster however.
I've seen a few comments on this thread concerned about Best Buy Orders. I would not worry about it too much.
I too ordered my iPad Pro 12.9 from Best Buy but I don't expect to see movement on it until mid next week (Wed) at latest.
This is in line with my overall experience when I ordered my PS5 from them last year and IMO the PS5 is still MUCH harder to obtain than these iPads. At no point did my order even reflect a release date other than an email stating I would get it on that day. Needless to say, I did not see movement on my order until a few days before the PS5 launch date and yet I still got it day one.
So all in all as long as you see movement by mid next week you should be good.
I too ordered my iPad Pro 12.9 from Best Buy but I don't expect to see movement on it until mid next week (Wed) at latest.
This is in line with my overall experience when I ordered my PS5 from them last year and IMO the PS5 is still MUCH harder to obtain than these iPads. At no point did my order even reflect a release date other than an email stating I would get it on that day. Needless to say, I did not see movement on my order until a few days before the PS5 launch date and yet I still got it day one.
So all in all as long as you see movement by mid next week you should be good.
That's generally the case that tracking can start from Knoxville. I've had iPhones or MBP start tracking from China as well. If they have had sufficient amount of time to stockade some decent inventory, I think they stage and break into individual shipment by UPS as their major hub in TN. If there's more a rush or more of a BTO order (like unusual custom MBP orders), they ship to destination straight from China. These are conclusions based on my observations from years of stalking order status for Apple product launches.
I've had the same thing with my 12.9 1TB. I don't believe it will show up listed anywhere until it actually moves to "shipped".
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If you have UPS My Choice, you are notified when a package is created and shipped to you. You can also use the phone number or order number associated with the order to search UPS via Reference Number.
Weird. Mine fixed itself 20 minutes later. My Apple balance is $0 but my card shows a charge for $2000+ so we will see what happens ?
I seem to recall someone saying in this thread that Apple is very strict about people not receiving their orders (those bought directly from Apple) before the official release date on May 21st in this case. I don’t know how Apple can control the exact date of delivery, but it’s probably a case of timing the shipping, depending on region, and possibly even instructing UPS to deliver on a certain date. Please correct me if I am mistaken about this.
Hopefully, if things go smoothly with the earliest deliveries, they will be able to move up the later deliveries to earlier dates. Keeping my fingers crossed.
One thing that has surprised me is how many people are having issues with the credit card payments, and having to call Apple to remedy things. Is something not quite with Apple, so that so many people have had to call them to iron things out?
i think @iPad Bro and @xenoako was curious about their orders. Im fully aware when stock arrives thats when BB will give us updates on our orders.
I was hoping BB get stock early that way it would be delivered earlier than the 21st. But I think Apple is making sure orders don’t go out early like Best Buy did with AirTags, BB customers got them 2 days early.
I guess a possible saving grace is the vague ‘late May’ release date.
I don't believe Apple ever even confirmed a specific day for release.
On the site it still says, "Available second half of May".
So I don't think there is a confirmed date to worry about yet, just that pre order customers will start receiving their's the week of the 21st.
My 12.9 256GB cellular iPad moved to “preparing to ship” this afternoon. Still May 21 - 28 for a delivery date. Progress!
I think I will know when it actually ships by finding my iPad on the UPS under tracking by reference number and when I get the Apple Cash. Apple normally doesn’t credit the Apple cash until the item ships.
i could be wrong but it was just a thought.
i could be wrong but it was just a thought.