iPhone 15 Pro model shipping times have started to improve

Delivery lead times are starting to improve for the iPhone 15 generation post-launch, but not quite to the levels of the iPhone 14 collection.

The third week of J.P. Morgan's Product Availability Tracker indicates delivery lead times have started to moderate. This is fairly typical to observe, and mirrors lead time trajectories of previous years.

According to the tracker, lead times moderated by four days over the past week, with the bulk of change occurring on the high-end models The non-Pro models remained "largely unchanged."

For global lead times, the at-home delivery timing for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus was 17 days for both models in week 3, the same as in week 2. The iPhone 15 Pro saw a drop from 36 days to 29 days, while the Pro Max went from 54 days to 46 days.

Compared to the iPhone 14 generation in the relative third week, timings are longer. The iPhone 14 and Plus were at 3 days and 0 days last year at this stage, while the Pro and Pro Max were 31 and 39 days.

Global iPhone availability tracker lead times in days [J.P. Morgan]

J.P. Morgan writes in the note seen by AppleInsider that the elevated lead time for the non-Pro models is "at least partly attributable to supply ramp issues that have since been resolved." Elevated Pro lead times were "likely impacted by the confluence of early order momentum and slower supply ramp."

In the United States, the iPhone 15 and Plus stayed unchanged between weeks at 15 days apiece, while the Pro and Pro Max saw moderations to 28 days and 35 days respectively, down from 54 days and 61 days.

For China, the low-end models stayed the same again, at 21 days each. The Pro models saw moderation again, with the Pro shifting from 36 days to 29 days, and the Pro Max from 50 days to 43 days.

The Europe tracker saw lead times decrease for all models in German, with the non-Pro down from 17 days to 15 days. The Pro is down from 37 days to 32 days, and the Pro Max is also down from 48 days to 42 days.

In the UK, the iPhone 15 and Plus lead times stayed static at 15 days each. The Pro moved from 35 days to 28 days, and the Pro Max from 59 days to 44 days.

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5 Comments

melgross 33613 comments · 20 Years

About 1 year ago

Yes, they are. My iPhone 15 Pro Max and my wife’s, supposed to be here October 8-16th will be arriving tomorrow. Our boxes from Apple to send the old ones back arrived today. My Ultra II supposed to arrive September 27 to Oct 4th will get here Tuesday. Odd how the phones moved ahead.

Madbum 536 comments · 2 Years

Please don’t compare to iPhone 14 because China was still in zero Covid and Foxconn factories were working at half capacity most of the winter

Well, they came in today. I took my first eagerly awaited ProRex log video, just a short piece, and edited it. No joke folks. It’s noticeably better than shooting in plain HDR or standard. Much easier to bring the contrast where it belongs. Much easier to adjust color and saturation, and none of the over sharpening we normally see. And that was just in Apple’s app. I haven’t yet tried FCP or DeVinci Resolve.

Marvin 15337 comments · 18 Years

melgross said:

Well, they came in today. I took my first eagerly awaited ProRex log video, just a short piece, and edited it. No joke folks. It’s noticeably better than shooting in plain HDR or standard. Much easier to bring the contrast where it belongs. Much easier to adjust color and saturation, and none of the over sharpening we normally see. And that was just in Apple’s app. I haven’t yet tried FCP or DeVinci Resolve.

I was surprised by the quality of the log footage on Youtube. I always wondered how smartphones still never seemed to produce footage that came to the level of movies as far back as the 80s like Die Hard, the depth of colors and contrast just didn't reach this quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wRZCV7naE (1:00)

but the log clips really have a more cinematic quality to them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBSCCosHa2A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ojOkDwQTSo

The cinematic mode helped already on older iPhones but every improvement gets closer to movie quality and further from home movie quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-iQJHcWhAg

Marvin said:

melgross said:

Well, they came in today. I took my first eagerly awaited ProRex log video, just a short piece, and edited it. No joke folks. It’s noticeably better than shooting in plain HDR or standard. Much easier to bring the contrast where it belongs. Much easier to adjust color and saturation, and none of the over sharpening we normally see. And that was just in Apple’s app. I haven’t yet tried FCP or DeVinci Resolve.

I was surprised by the quality of the log footage on Youtube. I always wondered how smartphones still never seemed to produce footage that came to the level of movies as far back as the 80s like Die Hard, the depth of colors and contrast just didn't reach this quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wRZCV7naE (1:00)

but the log clips really have a more cinematic quality to them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBSCCosHa2A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ojOkDwQTSo

The cinematic mode helped already on older iPhones but every improvement gets closer to movie quality and further from home movie quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-iQJHcWhAg

Yes, it’s pretty exciting. One channel compared it to his $100 thousand plus Arri. The differences he shot between the two were pretty close and even he said that a large number of the clips were very close and maybe 25% were essentially indistinguishable. I could have brought some of the clips even closer, but I think he did all of it over a weekend between family time.

the phone is still missing things though. Some are available in the Blackmajic app, such as exposure and shutter control not available in Apple’s app. But timecode is really required for proper cut control between cameras. I hope Apple will give us that along with some other features we could use as they’re really software, not hardware.