The iPhone X officially went up for pre-order on the 27th of October and is expected to ship out on the 3rd of November. Given how much anticipation there is surrounding the phone, it didn’t really come as a surprise to find that the phones were snapped up more or less in an instant, with customers seeing shipping times as long as 5-6 weeks.
However it seems that for some reason, some customers who pre-ordered their iPhone X handsets with a 1-2 week shipping estimate, they are seeing improvements in the estimated date. This was noticed by users on Reddit and MacRumors (via 9to5Mac) where previously their estimated dates said 10-17th November, which has since been improved to 3rd November.
Like we said it is unclear as to what changed that prompted this improvement in shipping. It is possible that maybe some customers cancelled their orders, or maybe Apple managed to get in more stock than previously thought, but either way this is a good thing. As for other customers who are facing longer shipping times, there is a chance it could improve as well, but we guess you probably shouldn’t get your hopes up just yet.
Recently there was a report out of Bloomberg that suggested that Apple had reduced the accuracy of Face ID in order to ramp up production. Apple has since refuted those claims as “completely false”, but whatever it is that Apple is doing to improve on production, hopefully quality will not be sacrificed as a result.
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