In case you are considering of shopping for a brand new Apple iPhone 14 Professional or iPhone 14 Professional Max any time earlier than the vacation season, you could have to accept a colour or a storage dimension you didn’t desire. 

Reuters (opens in new tab) is reporting that manufacturing is down at Apple’s key meeting factories in China, and we’re seeing the most effective iPhone fashions with important constraints and even month-long delivery delays. 

Apparently, Foxconn, Apple’s major producer in China, has seen delays brought on by COVID-19 and the nation’s strict insurance policies to curb the unfold of the virus. Throughout Apple’s most up-to-date earnings name, based on Enterprise Insider (opens in new tab), CEO Tim Prepare dinner blamed lagging iPhone gross sales on provide chain issues, saying “we proceed to be constrained at the moment, so we’re working very onerous to satisfy the demand.”

We checked each mannequin of Apple iPhone 14 accessible at the moment, together with the iPhone 14 Plus, the iPhone 14 Professional, and the Professional Max, to see what we might purchase at the moment on Apple’s net retailer. We discovered that the 2 inexpensive iPhone fashions, the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, are available at each storage capability, and in each colour. We will have one shipped at the moment or choose one up in a retailer close by. 

The iPhone 14 Professional Max and the Professional fashions are a lot tougher to seek out, no less than if we’re choosy about both colour or storage, or each. Each iPhone 14 Professional and Professional Max system has a delivery time with supply between November 23 and December 1. Apple appears assured that iPhones shall be delivered nicely earlier than the vacation season, however not in time for Thanksgiving. 

There are additionally iPhone 14 Professional fashions in inventory in our native shops, however solely sporadically. Our US workplace relies within the New York Metropolis space, and we’re polling shops within the New York suburbs north of town.

If we wish an iPhone 14 Professional in Deep Purple, one retailer close by has a 128GB mannequin accessible, and a unique Apple retailer has the 256GB mannequin. The bigger 512 and 1TB fashions usually are not stocked in shops close to us. The Deep Purple is essentially the most extensively accessible iPhone 14 Professional mannequin among the many dozen shops we surveyed.

There are two shops which have a 1TB mannequin iPhone 14 Professional however solely within the gold colour. No different colour within the highest capability is offered now in shops. The truth is, the one gold iPhone 14 Professional that we are able to discover in shops is that 1TB mannequin.

In case you are in search of an iPhone 14 Professional Max, you’ll have a better time discovering the telephone in case you go for the next storage capability. A purple 14 Professional Max system will be present in shops at the moment in each capability besides 128GB. You will get it as much as 1TB proper now.

The truth is, we discovered the 1TB iPhone 14 Professional Max accessible in each colour besides silver. For the silver system, we solely discovered a 256GB mannequin accessible. On the 256GB capability, each iPhone 14 Professional Max colour is offered for retailer pickup at the moment within the shops close to us.

What’s the underside line? Each colour of iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max, and each storage capability, is offered for pickup someplace, however you could have a tough time matching your favourite permutation. The iPhone 14 Professional is best to seek out in purple. The iPhone 14 Professional Max is best to seek out in case you’re keen to spend $1,599 at the moment to purchase the 1TB mannequin.

Evaluation: What are we alleged to do now?!

This provide downside is shocking, particularly for Apple. Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner was the previous provide chain skilled on the firm and has steered the Apple ship to extremely tight management over stock. Solely a worldwide pandemic and disaster might maintain Apple from assembly demand expectations with Prepare dinner in cost. 

If you must settle, we extremely suggest getting the storage capability you need over the colour. You possibly can at all times get a pleasant case on your telephone or slap a flowery sticker on it. You gained’t be capable of add extra space for treasured movies and TV reveals later. 

Additionally, it’s best to observe that in case you break your iPhone and must get it changed, the quickest alternative choice might not be the colour you bought. If you wish to exchange a damaged purple iPhone 14 Professional in a rush, you might find yourself with house black finally, anyway. Coloration is most vital within the Apple Retailer, not in your pocket. 

Whilst you’re contemplating your choices, you may wish to have a look at our checklist of all the most effective smartphones.