iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Orders May Start at an Unusual Time

Pre-orders of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro whitethorn not unfastened until Saturday, September 12, a time aboriginal than the company's accustomed schedule, according to a caller report.


Apple is acceptable to clasp its annual iPhone event connected Wednesday, September 9, wherever the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ models, its first-ever foldable iPhone, and the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 are each expected to beryllium announced.

Under Apple's emblematic motorboat plan, pre-orders statesman the Friday instantly pursuing the event, with devices shipping the pursuing Friday. This year, that would spot pre-orders connected Friday, September 11, but Macworld reports that its German sister publication, Macwelt, has heard from a reliable root that Apple volition alternatively propulsion pre-orders backmost to Saturday, September 12.

There is precedent for this arsenic the displacement is reportedly tied to the day itself. September 11, 2026 marks the 25th day of the September 11 attacks, and Apple has moved pre-orders distant from that day before. In 2015, erstwhile the modular pre-order Friday besides landed connected September 11, Apple delayed iPhone 6S and 6S Plus pre-orders to Saturday, September 12.

The timing wrong the time is besides said to beryllium changing. Apple's pre-orders traditionally unfastened astatine 5 a.m. PT, but the root says this year's model volition alternatively commencement astatine midnight PT connected Saturday.

The delayed pre-order day is expected to use to the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌, Apple Watch Series 12, and Apple Watch Ultra 4, alongside immoderate different hardware Apple introduces astatine the event. Apple's foldable iPhone could travel astatine a aboriginal date, with pre-orders perchance not opening until precocious September.

Earlier this year, Macwelt reported that Apple would denote the iPhone 17e connected Thursday, February 19, but that announcement didn't really travel until March 2. That being said, Saturday, September 12 looks similar a coagulated stake for the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌'s pre-order date, though the reported midnight PT commencement clip is worthy taking with a pinch of brackish for now. Apple's iPhone lawsuit takes spot successful conscionable nether 2 weeks, connected September 9.
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