iPhone 5 "Preparing for Shipment" Status

Thanks for the tip! Not that I'm obsessive, but I was getting a little concerned thinking that my iPhone still hadn't shipped as of two days prior to Friday.

As an addendum to your tip, be sure to type your phone number into the 'Shipment reference' field with no hyphens, spaces, or parentheses.

Thank you. Appreciate the clarification.

Thanks! That assuaged my fears 🙂

Mine appears to be sitting in Louisville, KY at the moment.

Nice to get more info. Mine's in KY too, to be delivered on 21st. Glad my 2 am order wasn't for not...

It's highly likely the iPhones for all three big, U.S. carriers are sitting on the initial pre-order inventory

and of course, Apple has them all on lock-down so FedEx and UPS deliver on the 21st of Sept. and no earlier.

And as the shipper it is their decision. It's all good no matter AT&T, SPRINT or VERIZON any of us fortunate

enough to get in a that first, early pre-order queue we'll all receive ours Friday Sept. 21 -- a couple more days and no wasting time waiting online. I have a busines to run.

I set an alarm go up 10 minutes before pre-orders were going live online and by 2:17am (CT) I had mine pre-ordered at att.com and they emailed me immediately and again at 2:30am saying the order had been sent to the warehouse. So, there you have it our iPhone 5s are already stateside awaiting their Friday release into the system.

People who live farther out tend to be shipped first to ensure the Friday delivery date. The rest of us they'll release Thursday for Friday delivery by end of the day.

Hey, we're getting the awesome, new iPhone 5 on Friday. Rock on!

Mines been in Louisville KY since yesterday. I'm guessing they are holding them all there until tomorrow or something.

*Mine has.

I was thinking the same thing. I got excited watching the tracking from china-->kentucky then it just stopped and I was not so excited lol

Could be iPhoning instead of watching it sit in KY. Should be no trouble to get it to me Friday, but UPS man doesn't come until 5pm. Bummer.

Any idea when apple will send the shipped email that I can presign. I'm not going to be home but don't want to miss it Friday.

Ordered at 7am, Preparing for Shipment 64G Black Verizon... nothing on UPS or FEDEX, am I lucky and it is shipping now? Or will I sit in this stage until my assigned delivery date of Oct 5.

Had ordered White 16 G AT&T on 14th @ apple.com at around 3:40 EST, status showed processing untill when I tried to cancel it outside the Apple store today. The status changed to preparing for shipment... This ***** what was the use of preordering when people who did not preorder have the iphone and i don't 😟 does anybody have an idea how long it will take if the status is preparing for shipment apple website shows DElivery on 5th Oct.....

same thing happened to me

im furious! on the phone with customer support right now

they had no problem taking our money and promising a ship date of "on or before september 21" and now without warning it is october 5.

***?

Who do we complain to?

seriously!!!!!