{"id":629915,"date":"2026-10-14T02:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629915\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T02:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:24:13","slug":"apples-get-ready-service-is-now-available-for-iphone-duo-pre-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629915\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Get Ready service is now available for iPhone Duo pre-orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple unveiled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_duo_fold-13804.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone Duo<\/a>, its first foldable smartphone, at its September launch event alongside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_18_pro-14934.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 18 Pro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_18_pro_max-14716.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 18 Pro Max<\/a>. The company will start taking pre-orders for the iPhone Duo on October 16, which is this coming Friday. Shipping will then start on October 23, exactly one week later.<\/p>\n<p>Since the iPhone Duo is expected to be available in rather limited quantities at first, if you really want one, then you should use Apple&#8217;s Get Ready service, which has just been made available for the iPhone Duo pre-orders.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791944653_241_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Apple's Get Ready service is now available for iPhone Duo pre-orders\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This lets you select all of your options ahead of time, so that when pre-orders go live on Friday at 5AM PT \/ 8AM ET, you will basically just need to click or tap one button to place your pre-order, thus ensuring you get a front-row spot in the line.<\/p>\n<p>With Get Ready, you can select your iPhone Duo&#8217;s color and storage capacity, as well as pick your carrier status, choose any accessories you want to buy, pick an AppleCare+ plan, select a trade-in, add your payment information, and set your shipping and billing addresses. Then you just hit the &#8220;Pre-order&#8221; button on Friday and you should be set.<\/p>\n<p>Get Ready is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/buy-iphone\/iphone-duo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on the Apple website<\/a> and in the Apple Store app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone, at its September launch event alongside the iPhone 18&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-629915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}