{"id":648989,"date":"2026-11-02T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648989\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:36:10","slug":"iphone-duo-latest-buyer-wait-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648989\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Duo: Latest Buyer Wait Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone Duo order wait times averaged 89 days despite falling by a week, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubs.com\/global\/en\/investment-bank\/insights-and-data\/global-research\/evidence-lab-overview.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UBS Investment Bank<\/a> data as of October 30. (Via <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.investing.com\/news\/stock-market-news\/ubs-reiterates-apple-stock-neutral-rating-on-iphone-wait-times-93CH-4945049\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investing.com<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hero_medium_2x-feature2.jpg\"   alt=\"hero medium 2x feature2\" width=\"1466\" height=\"825\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1072526\"\/><br \/>The USB Evidence Lab tracker covers iPhone availability across more than 30 markets, and puts the iPhone Duo buyer wait time at nearly three months, even after the slight improvement.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, iPhone 18 Pro wait times averaged around five days, down three days from the previous week, while the Pro Max held steady at roughly 18 days. UBS said reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/10\/23\/iphone-duo-screen-cracks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cracked screens<\/a> were unlikely to be the main reason for shorter Duo waits. But on their own, the figures don&#8217;t tell us whether demand has weakened or supply has improved.<\/p>\n<p>iPhone Duo pre-orders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/10\/23\/iphone-duo-apple-store-pickup-available-today\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slipped to late January<\/a> within minutes on the device&#8217;s October 16 launch, but most people who queued on launch day walked away with a new phone. The reason, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/power-on-with-mark-gurman\/apple-embraces-a-touchscreen-macbook-iphone-duo-crackgate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman<\/a>, is that Apple allocated roughly 80% of its initial iPhone Duo inventory to its retail stores, with locations holding as few as 50 units each.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Apple described demand as &#8220;nothing short of extraordinary&#8221; and said it was working to satisfy demand &#8220;as quickly as possible,&#8221; so there&#8217;s a good chance that, even if a delivery estimate for your order is way out in the future, it could improve over time.<\/p>\n<p>iPhone Duo\u200c starts at $1,999 for 256GB, with 512GB at $2,199, 1TB at $2,599, and 2TB at $3,199 on Apple&#8217;s U.S. store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"iPhone Duo order wait times averaged 89 days despite falling by a week, according to UBS Investment Bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[294328,342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-648989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-iphone-duo","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648989","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=648989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}