In effort to avoid all the usual confusion over processing and shipping timeline, this is what I've been seeing for many years now from Apple for delivery in the US. This applies if you pre-ordered and have an estimated day one receipt. For the sake of example, let's say day one is Friday.
1. "Processing" - Your order will be in this phase till about Tuesday normally (somewhere between Monday and Wednesday.). If you bought the phone outright, it's possible the pre-auth falls off while in this phase, but that does not mean anything.
2. "Preparing to Ship" - This stage usually kicks in around Tuesday or Wednesday. At this point, your card will be charged. You may notice your card is charged before the order hits this phase, but it usually happens around the same time.
3. "Shipped" - This phase normally happens within 24 hours after the previous phase, Wednesday usually. I've seen as late as Thursday, and it still arrives Friday. Even though UPS or FedEx does not show as overnight shipping, it will still arrive on Friday.
The process is often times a little different if you've pre-ordered a new MBP or MacBook especially for non-standard configurations. Those are often shipped from China and takes a little longer to get to the US. But for iPhones and watches, this timeline has been repeated for the past several years.
1. "Processing" - Your order will be in this phase till about Tuesday normally (somewhere between Monday and Wednesday.). If you bought the phone outright, it's possible the pre-auth falls off while in this phase, but that does not mean anything.
2. "Preparing to Ship" - This stage usually kicks in around Tuesday or Wednesday. At this point, your card will be charged. You may notice your card is charged before the order hits this phase, but it usually happens around the same time.
3. "Shipped" - This phase normally happens within 24 hours after the previous phase, Wednesday usually. I've seen as late as Thursday, and it still arrives Friday. Even though UPS or FedEx does not show as overnight shipping, it will still arrive on Friday.
The process is often times a little different if you've pre-ordered a new MBP or MacBook especially for non-standard configurations. Those are often shipped from China and takes a little longer to get to the US. But for iPhones and watches, this timeline has been repeated for the past several years.