Apple warns of delivery delays for iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max due to COVID restrictions in China - Marca

Apple has warned customers they volition person to hold longer for its iPhone 14 models, citing strict COVID-19 restrictions successful China arsenic a large crushed why.

The tech elephantine accidental that the Foxconn-operated factory, successful the cardinal metropolis of Zhengzhou, is operating astatine importantly reduced capacity, but did not springiness details connected however overmuch its workforce has been reduced.

"We proceed to spot beardown request for iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models," work a statement.

"However, we present expect little iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments than we antecedently anticipated and customers volition acquisition longer hold times to person their caller products."

How agelong volition the hold successful iPhone shipments be?

Apple, which began selling its iPhone 14 successful September, says customers should expect delays of up to a month, though they did not springiness a coagulated timeline.

Last week, Chinese authorities ordered a seven-day lockdown successful the country astir the Foxconn mill aft a spike successful COVID infections successful Zhengzhou and workers astatine the plant.

The factory, which employs astir 200,000 people, has been affected by the strict measures to curb the dispersed of COVID-19. China reported its highest fig of caller COVID-19 infections successful six months past Monday.

Meanwhile, Apple expects to nutrient astatine slightest 3 cardinal less iPhone 14 phones this twelvemonth than planned, owed to anemic request for their low-end models.