like too book appointment to buy iPhone

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Good luck if you want iPhone 13 Pro models. New orders are now out to the end of October. And millions upon millions of people have now pre-ordered one. The chances of being able to book an appointment to just walk in and get one at launch are pretty slim to none.

They have done that. But not all stores will have stock for walkin customers. And if you want to be a walkin, you'd better get up very early and be in line at your Apple Store. One may have better luck trying to buy instore from their cellular provider or a Best Buy store.

Been there, done that, have the T-Shirt (I actually do have the T-Shirts for the opening of most Apple Stores in my area). I've never seen any Apple Store or Apple Authorized Reseller have no stock at all on the release date.

I honestly can't say they have or haven't. I've never take getting an iPhone on launch by chance. I ALWAYS pre-order the moment orders go live. We were fortunate to get both the 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max order in to get them this Friday. They'll be delivered to the house, then we'll take them to our Apple Store to have screen protectors installed, before they're even turned on.

Interesting to see that this year Apple is offering a higher end Otter Box Screen protector, which is of course even a little more expensive than the Belkin Screen Protectors.

I got an iphone 12 pro by buying it from a store when preorder was showing delivery in several weeks.

Depends on the model, color you want.

Usually stores get replenishment shipments at least once a day.

Used to regularly lunch with an Apple Store manager in Dallas, they carefully control the pre-orders (which didn't exist when I purchased my iPhone 3G) to ensure that they have release day stock for all of their Stores as well as cell service providers and Authorized resellers such as Best Buy, etc.

Since the pre-orders started the lines at stores are much shorter (the line for the iPhone 4 was 15 times longer than the one for the 3G and I went there 3 hours earlier) but I have been to the Apple Store for other reasons on launch day (including last year) and the lines are short with two of them, one for people with appointments to pick up their pre-orders and the other for people wishing to buy a phone. If you are there for something else you have to tell them at the front door with specifics as to what you need. Then each day after that they have a sign on an easel telling whether they have any iPhones that day. You can also check after midnight to see what is available for the next day.

According to one of my sources on release day the model that goes first is the 256GB Pro Max with the newest color. Right after that it is Pro Max with the most storage (this year 1TB) although this year the Pro models have the same cameras so it may be different. The ones that had at the end of the day last year were gold models.

You missed all the fun, did the line with a friend for the first iPad with cellular. Short line even bought her a pillow to sit on.

Mine should be delivered this Friday. No lines for me. But I miss the 2am ordering.

I did the line once. I wanted to do it. Been there, never doing it again. It was when iPhone 6 was released. I got up at 4:00 AM, got to the Apple Store at 5:00 AM to get in line with hundreds of people who were already in line. It was sort of fun. Didn't get in the mall till 1:30 PM, to get into the inside like (so Disney-esque), to finally get placed outside the store, where a store employee came and got me and gave me my phone. I didn't leave the mall until 2:30 PM.

While I met some nice folks and some of the restaurants offered free food to us, I got that out of my system, never to be repeated again!

The iPhone 13 doesn’t go on sale until 9/24.

There will be limited supply in store.

You will have to contact the store to make an appointment.

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I agree with you on booking the appointment (usually they won't take them on a release day) but they do set aside a number of all models for sale in the stores on release day.

I'm sure you're right on all of this. I'll do the pre-order thing and not lose any sleep over it!