How long does preparing to ship take?

Mine came a week earlier than the earliest date in the estimated delivery range.

Sep 23: order placed > processing (estimated delivery: Oct 8-15)

Sept 28: processing > preparing to ship > shipped (from Ireland)

Sept 30: arrived in USA (Ireland > Germany > New Jersey)

Sept 30: NJ > WA

Oct 1: delivered by UPS (Seattle)

Sorry I’m late but on your next Apple order if it does this I had a order it was in processing for I think 10-12 days it’s in preparing to ship my estimated delivery date is Oct 13-Oct 20 it got out of processing on Oct 15

I ordered macbook Pro 2020 on 27th September and delivery window is 17th to 23rd October but till 18th October the status was processing and today on 19th my status is preparing to ship.it takes 21 days to move only one step to my door.guys you have any idea how many days it takes to deliver the Mac after preparing to ship status.. help me.

im in the same boat. ordered macbook air on Oct 11 with 1.2GHz quad-core 10th-generation Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, 16GB 3733MHz LPDDR4X memory and 1TB SSD storage and nothing but processing since.

I ordered a 16 MacBook Pro /13 days in processing then after 13 days preparing to ship then same day shipped then next day (not rlly useful just sharing my story) It was supposed to come next day my doorbell was broken they said signature not required so I expected they leave it at the door they did not it said Delivery Exception Customer Not Available Or Buissness closed I called customer support they said there system was broken and they would deliver it Monday (next day they attempted then the next day attempted then on Monday they delivered it without signature yeah

I ordered my MBP on Oct 20 and it’s still processing... it’s been 17 days so far processing :/ estimated delivery dates is November 25 - December 3 but really hoping it gets here sooner... I ordered a 13” MacBook Pro (512gb) and the only customization I did was upgrade from i5 to i7 ..

I ordered 16-inch MacBook Pro, the higher end model. All I upgraded was the graphics card to the 8GB VRAM one.

Ordered on November 14th. It's only been 5 days, but I'm seriously dying if impatience. Pretty much always happens to me. Ive taken note on the general time it takes to move to preparing to ship for customized orders and it's all over the place. I averaged it out though, and on average it takes about 13.5 days to move to preparing to ship. Though it could take as long as 24 days. I'm hoping the numbers are a little better since this is a good bit later than all the other posts. My estimated delivery is Dec 9 - 16.

My computer shipped the evening of the 26th. 27th China time. Expected to arrive on the 3rd. Just received my AppleCare+ proof of coverage via email as well. 12 days from my order date

Spent 19 hours in preparing to ship. My bank was charged 30 minutes before the status change.

No it was early. My dates were Dec 8 - 15 so it'll arrive one week early. However I know they ran into production issues sometime after my order went through the production line. People have gotten emails about delayed delivery times from Apple directly. There are also some M1 models that are very constrained. I think being the Intel 16-inch CTO helped me out.

I ordered on nov 22 and my expected delivery dates are dec 2- dec 8 but it is still on processing. I’ve contacted apple and they said i have some good dates but i’m just questioning if i will get it between those days since it still hasn’t moved off processing.

Ordered an M1 Macbook Air base specs on Nov. 28th with estimated arrival Dec. 8th - Dec. 15th. The status of the order has been processing and just changed to preparing to ship today.

I sent an inquiry their way late last week and the specialist on the other end said the order would definitely come in by the 15th. Will most likely come in on the 16th or 17th for me depending on how fast it goes from “preparing to ship” to “shipped”, but if the amount of processing time is anything to go by, I’m thinking it’s going to take a while longer.

I’m gonna say that I never saw any iPhone with the highest battery consumption.

today I tried to get help in Mac Online Store Mall Plaza Los Dominicos, and the Manager has been too rude in the attention.

I don’t recommend anyone this store in Chile

Going through the same here. I ordered on jan 8 and my expected delivery dates for mba with basic specs are jan 25 - feb 4 but it’s still on processing and my card hasn’t been charge yet. Im so scared that they gonna arrive late because my school starts on feb 2.

Hi, when did your MacBook come in the end? I’ve ordered a base model MBA with the M1 chip and it’s been a week today and it still says processing and my card hasn’t been charged my estimated arrival window is the 2nd-9th of Feb and the 2nd is tomorrow and still nothing has happened. Did yours come in the time frame and how long was it processing for?

Today is March the 1st , i ordered my MacBook on the 22nd of February and my estimated window was the 2nd-9th of March which is literally tomorrow LOL (Ik it puts an extra week on but it still says processing!) I am from the UK so if anybody else is from here and has ordered a base model MacBook Air with the M1 chip from Apple recently would you be able to give me some information on your experience with processing and shipping :) i go back to college on the 9th of March so fingers crossed it comes before then as i have some work i need to get finished!