If you're on the iUP and want to upgrade you need to go straight to the link to check eligibility (this is in the Apple Store app, BTW, not the website). If you're eligible it then asks you to choose device, spec and colour, then you can choose the store to reserve at and a time slot. It then confirms everything and offers to add it to your calendar so you don't forget (as if!). You don't need to give any details other than name, email address and mobile number.
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Other UK iPhone (2017) X(Ten)/8/8+ Pre-Orders and Dispatch Thread
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If you're on the iUP and want to upgrade you need to go straight to the link to check eligibility (this is in the Apple Store app, BTW, not the website). If you're eligible it then asks you to choose device, spec and colour, then you can choose the store to reserve at and a time slot. It then confirms everything and offers to add it to your calendar so you don't forget (as if!). You don't need to give any details other than name, email address and mobile number.
I'm in same boat. Would be good if they allowed you to at least pick the following day.
Haha.... same. Feel like such a tit now.....typical, my email confirm went to my Spam folder!!!!!
Every plus model in every capacity still available for pick up on 22nd in Newcastle.
Seems like plenty of stock which is always good!
Seems like plenty of stock which is always good!
Anyone who was on the iUP and upgraded via the iUP, reserved an additional device in a different colour with the view to choosing which one they want to do the iUP upgrade to?
Yes.
iUP is a finance deal and as such, cannot be signed on anyone else's premises.
Those that are getting delivered have bought the phone outright.
Can I ask on IUP I don't have to give up my old phone as I've already promised it to a family member?
Cheers
Looking like I will do IUP for iphone x seeing as EE have prices only for the 64GB model,
63 a month for the 256GB iphone x..going to be pricey
When you choose your time slot there’s an option to change day at the top. I used the app, if that helps.
Yeah agreed, it's a cracking little phone. I was always a fan of the iPhone 5 and 5S design. Much faster and more features than my backup iPhone I've been using since I sold my iPhone 7 Plus.
This is weird
First year since 2001 that i am not upgrading on launch day - used to do it via provider, last 3 or 4 years bought outright from apple. It was mayhem at 8:01 each year!
Just tried at 8:55 both ways 'to see' and all models of iPhone 8+ 64 & 256GB are available for launch day. From Apple and Vodafone. Never ever happened before.
Is everyone waiting for the X or have people finally realised that including AppleCare £1000 for a telephone that is out of date in 12 months is excessive?
First year since 2001 that i am not upgrading on launch day - used to do it via provider, last 3 or 4 years bought outright from apple. It was mayhem at 8:01 each year!
Just tried at 8:55 both ways 'to see' and all models of iPhone 8+ 64 & 256GB are available for launch day. From Apple and Vodafone. Never ever happened before.
Is everyone waiting for the X or have people finally realised that including AppleCare £1000 for a telephone that is out of date in 12 months is excessive?
Unless your old phone is the previous iUP iPhone, in which case you have to give it back if you’re upgrading before the loan is paid off.
For those with emails, are you still at processing order? I'm wondering if John Lewis have put the brakes on mine (£0 balance)... their website is terrible for seeing transactions in process...
They are. But when I tried at 8.30, I could get every model reserved for my nearest store. Where last year, I struggled to get one when I was straight on it at 8am.
Presuming you were seeing same as me then. Only option for purely in-store pick up is to go via iUP. Otherwise it takes payment before pick up.
I suspect its a few different reasons - the X was the phone rumoured to have serious supply constraints this time; some people will be waiting for the X; I'm sure Apple do all they can every year to improve the amount of stock available and I'm sure the carriers also do what they can to make the process better each year.
Must admit it's a strange feeling not pre-ordering the new iPhone this morning. However I did pre-order Cellular Apple Watch.