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Genius Bar appointment for iPhone setup and trade-in

I need person to person on-site with Apple genius bar person to help:

  1. set up my newly purchased phone
  2. accept my old phone as a trade-in


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iPhone SE, iOS 18

Posted on Dec 21, 2024 9:54 AM

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Posted on Dec 21, 2024 9:59 AM

dumbasgrassIam wrote:

1. I need person to person on-site with Apple genius bar person to help:
set up my newly purchased phone
2. accept my old phone as a trade-in

Start here→Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple


This is not a chat service, and is not a way to communicate directly with Apple; it is a user-to-user technical support forum. If you have a question or issue that you think another user can help you with please describe it in as much detail as you can and a user who sees your request and thinks they can help will answer, but that might not be immediate; it could be hours later. So there is no point in posting a followup message 2 minutes after your initial post.

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Question marked as Top-ranking reply

Dec 21, 2024 9:59 AM in response to dumbasgrassIam

dumbasgrassIam wrote:

1. I need person to person on-site with Apple genius bar person to help:
set up my newly purchased phone
2. accept my old phone as a trade-in

Start here→Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple


This is not a chat service, and is not a way to communicate directly with Apple; it is a user-to-user technical support forum. If you have a question or issue that you think another user can help you with please describe it in as much detail as you can and a user who sees your request and thinks they can help will answer, but that might not be immediate; it could be hours later. So there is no point in posting a followup message 2 minutes after your initial post.

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Genius Bar appointment for iPhone setup and trade-in

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