Want Apple's folding iPhone? 'Duo' you have patience?

Anyone purchasing an Apple iPhone Duo online as a Christmas current may desire to discover a backup plan.

Expected shipment dates for new orders of the extremely anticipated smartphone model have been pushed rear to January 25, 2027. That includes iPhone Duos throughout all accessible carriers, colors, and retention sizes. For those who pounced on preorders whenever they went live first Friday morning, shipments volition commencement arriving as first as October 23.

For latecomers, there is continually the Hunger Games that is lining up first exterior an Apple shop on initiate day to try to snag in-store inventory. The cheapest type of the foldable phone, alongside 256 GB of storage, expenses $1,999. The example alongside 2 TB of retention is priced at $3,199.

While first petition for the iPhone Duo is certainly a aspect in pushing rear shipping dates, it's not different for new Apple products to see extended shipment times. Apple is additionally navigating "limited" provision because of provision sequence constraints, Bloomberg earlier reported.

Then-CEO Tim Cook talked concerning broad provision constraints on Apple's broader merchandise lineup during the company's third-quarter earnings call in July.

"If you appearance onward into the current quarter, the September quarter, we continue to anticipate elevated levels of demand," Cook said, speaking of broader merchandise demand. "However, alongside small elasticity in the provision chain, we anticipate the effect from the provision constraints to addition considerably sequentially."