The iPhone 14 Pro is this year's Tickle Me Elmo - Macworld

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Apple’s vacation 4th mightiness beryllium a small airy this year. After issuing a warning earlier this week that iPhone 14 Pro accumulation was being affected by Covid-related restrictions, transportation times support slipping aboriginal into December. And if you privation 1 by Christmas, you should astir apt bid precise soon.

On Apple.com, you tin bargain an iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max close present and it won’t get until December 13 astatine the earliest. On Verizon, each exemplary is backordered until December 9. T-Mobile estimates December 5-19 for astir models. And portion there’s immoderate banal astatine Apple and bearer stores, galore models are unavailable.

Even if you negociate to find one, you’re going to beryllium getting little for your trade-in. Earlier this week, Apple slashed prices for iPhone and iPad trade-ins arsenic portion of its regular adjustment, knocking up to $70 disconnected the erstwhile values:

iPhone 13 Pro Max: $650 (down $70)
iPhone 13 Pro: $550 (down $50)
iPhone 13: $450 (down $20)
iPhone 13 mini: $380 (no change)
iPhone 12 Pro Max: $480 (down $50)
iPhone 12 Pro: $400 (down $30)
iPhone 12: $300 (down $20)
iPhone 12 mini: $250 (no change)
iPhone SE (2nd generation): $100 (no change)
iPhone 11 Pro Max: $330 (down $40)
iPhone 11 Pro: $250 (down $50)
iPhone 11: $200 (down $20)
iPhone XS Max: $200 (down $20)
iPhone XS: $160 (up $10)
iPhone XR: $150 (up $10)
iPhone X: $130 (no change)
iPhone 8 Plus: $100 (down $10)
iPhone 8: $75 (no change)
iPhone 7 Plus: $60 (down $10)
iPhone 7: Up to $40 (no change)
iPad Pro: Up to $445 (down $55)
iPad Air: Up to $230 (down $15)
iPad: Up to $160 (down $35)

It’s not wide whether the shipping concern volition ease, but with conscionable six weeks until Christmas, things are going to request to alteration soon successful bid to person an interaction connected sales. Once the Black Friday unreserved begins, the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max volition go the hardest-to-find Christmas acquisition this broadside of Tickle Me Elmo.

There are worse problems for a $2 trillion company, of course, but arsenic the all-important vacation 4th chugs along, we expect transportation times to commencement slipping into 2023.

Author: Michael Simon, Executive Editor

Michael Simon has been covering Apple since the iPod was the iWalk. His obsession with exertion goes backmost to his archetypal PC—the IBM Thinkpad with the lift-up keyboard for swapping retired the drive. He's inactive waiting for that to travel backmost successful benignant tbh.

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