How long does preparing to ship take?

It could probably also prevent people from canceling other orders that give the deal by getting free airpods. If people return the Macbook, then that means they could keep the airpods, so they make you pay for them and take the $159 off the Macbook order.

what Is your delivery window? If it’s the 21-28 it should move in the next couple of days but I also get that it might not cause people have said that theirs doesn’t prepare to ship until halfway through delivery window. It’s only just a hit or miss thing

I ordered my 13-inch MacBook Pro on August 24th it’s almost been a month and still no update on my order it is still “processing” and it is meant to be arriving from September 16th - 23th and today is August 17th and it’s still not even budged. I’m quite annoyed by it all that it has taken this long to get any update whatsoever. I contacted apple by chat and they didn't give me any answer about my order.

I ordered the exact same model, on the exact same date as you, with the exact same delivery window. Are you in the UK also? Because mine moved from processing to shipping today after 24 days and it seems to be the same with most others, that the status tends to move to shipping a day or two after the earliest arrival date. Also if you made any customisations, that could be more reason for delay as well. Hope this helps.

Me too, I ordered the same (base) model on the 25th of August and my estimated date of delivery was 16-23. It was stuck on processing until this morning. It moved to preparing to ship and only a few hours later I was notified that it’s now being shipped. Mine is arriving tomorrow. (I live in the Netherlands) but I’m sure yours will come soon too? Btw did you guys get free express delivery too?

My MBA 2020 journey so far:

Ordered my 13in MBA with upgraded 16gb of RAM at around 7pm on Sept 7th.

Stayed in processing until today, Sept 17th. I was never notified but I’ve been obsessing over this order so I just checked the page and saw that it is now “preparing to ship”.

It’s been hours and I still hasn’t been shipped, so I’m not exactly sure what that means but 🤷🏻

The ETA is Sept 24-30, but I really hope it comes sooner!!

Don’t worry too much. I had the same struggle. Ordered 25th of August and stayed stuck on processing. But yesterday it moved from processing to preparing to ship to actually being shipped. And I received it today!

I bet you’re proper gutted!

I contact Apple yesterday via the web chat and they reassured me that it will be sent this week in the next few days. They said that it wouldn’t go out of the delivery window which has honestly given me hope now!

If you don’t mind me asking, where are you ordering from? I’m ordering from the UK.

Mine changed from processing to preparing to ship today. It had moved when I checked it after I woke up. It’s already been shipped out the same day and hopefully should be with me tomorrow.

I hope yours doesn’t take long now.

Ordered mine Aug. 30th with delivery dates Sep 23-30. Still in processing and i found out that all the stores in Vegas are reopening tomorrow. If I had known I would’ve just bought it in-store. Talked to support and they couldn’t change the delivery option to in-store, thought they could since it was still in the processing stage.

Same I ordered mine august 30th and my expected delivery is September 23-30 it’s still processing I wonder when it will change to preparing to ship Hope it doesn’t pass the 30th ordered it for school but this is way longer than I expected should’ve bought it in stores but I saw the AirPods bundle and just decided to order it

I ordered my iPad Pro 12.9” 256gb on 8/30. It didn’t change or update status until 9/23 when it charged my card and went from “processing” to “preparing to ship.” Hopefully will ship soon, I need to for class starting soon.

Oh geez, I guess I should sit tight since I ordered my iMac only two days ago. My delivery estimate is Oct 8-14... is it safe to say that most deliveries are coming toward the end rather the beginning of the estimated range?

I’ve never been more annoyed with a company, and honestly never expected this. This is my first online order with Apple (due to pandemic, of course). I ordered a standard MBP on Sept 2 and it is still “Processing” as of today.

Expected delivery is Sept 25 - Oct 2.

It would really be nice just to get any type of update of any kind at this point. The silence just makes it worse.

So I placed my 2020 iMac 27" (customized) order on Sept 23 and it went to "preparing to ship" on Sept 28 and then to "shipped" less than 12 hours after that. The original delivery estimate was Oct 8-15. It looks like it's shipping UPS, probably from China although it lists Ireland as the location (probably since that's where the company is officially based for all the tax avoiding schemes they use).

UPS tracking doesn't show the package accepted yet but with a delivery date of Oct 2, but now the delivery date on Apple's site shows Oct 6. I don't know when it's actually coming but I'm thrilled I'll be getting it ahead of schedule!