Supply of the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max has returned to normal levels after several months of production disruptions that hurt the availability of Apple’s higher-end iPhones.
In November, in a rare press release on its website, Apple warned that supply of the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max would be severely limited due to lockdown restrictions affecting its main assembly plant. iPhone in China.
“We continue to see strong demand for the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models. However, we now expect lower shipments of the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max than we previously expected, and customers will experience longer lead times waiting to receive their new products,” the company said. “We are working closely with our supplier to return to normal production levels.”
The outages resulted in customers having to wait several weeks to receive their new iPhone 14 Pro models in the United States and other markets. Availability of the models started to improve around the end of December, but now they seem to have been fully restored.
Apple’s US online store lists all iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max configurations as in stock and ready to ship to customers within 24 hours, a big change from the three-to-four week wait time from a few weeks ago.
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