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Lead times for the iPhone 14 Pro models person stabilized aft expanding owed to the Zhengzhou factory's COVID issues, an availability tracker states, portion request for the iPhone 14 models are "modest" successful comparison.

In the ninth week of the Apple Product Availability Tracker conducted by JP Morgan analysts, the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max inactive person lengthy pb times. After increasing by astir a week successful the week 8 results, the 2 models person seen their availabilities frost astatine 31 days each, the aforesaid arsenic the erstwhile results.

JP Morgan says the pb times are a "likely denotation of the challenges related to an ongoing COVID outbreak successful China, peculiarly successful the country astir Foxconn's large iPhone factory."

The issues are important capable to punctual Apple to people a uncommon Sunday property release, advising of little accumulation of its Pro exemplary iPhones astatine the facility.

The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus demands proceed to "remain modest," with the wide planetary timescales present down to 2 days apiece from 3 days 1 week prior.

Relative to the iPhone 13 series, the pb times are shorter for the basal iPhone 14 model, portion the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max are in-line with their year-ago counterparts.

For the US tracker, pb times are mostly unchanged, astatine 3 days and 32 days for the non-Pro and Pro models respectively. Relative to the iPhone 13 generation, the iPhone 13 and mini would've been astir 10 days astatine this constituent successful the cycle.

In China, the basal iPhone 14 pb clip accrued from 2 days 1 week agone to 4 days, with the iPhone 14 Plus pb times shifting from 2 days to 3 days. Even so, wide pb times for the basal models are inactive "less favorable comparative to request past year," which saw pb times of astir a week.

The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max pb times successful China proceed to way for 29 days.

In Europe, Germany pb times for the Pro models moderated "slightly" to 32 days from 34 days a week ago. In the UK, the Pro pb times remained unchangeable astatine 29 days.

The iPhone 14 and Plus tracked to 1 time successful Germany, down from 5 days, whereas deliveries for the models successful the UK stayed astatine 1 day.

The AirPods Pro Gen 2 had its pb times grow slightly, rising from 2 days past week to 4 days.