Apple Christmas shopping deadlines for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch revealed

APPLE has revealed when to buy its top gadgets by to ensure they arrive in time for Christmas.

In a post to its website on Monday, the California tech titan provided a handy list of order by dates for free UK delivery across all products.

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Customers hoping to bag an iPhone 13 for the holidays, for instance, should make a purchase online or in-store by December 22, according to the company.

The cutoff date for delivery of older models like the iPhone 12 and iPhone SE is the same, while the iPhone 11 falls a week earlier, on December 15.

You’ll need to be a lot more organised to bag some of Apple’s other top gadgets, however.

You might struggle to get hold of an iPad Mini, for example, if you order it past Apple’s November 17 deadline. That’s only a week away.

Similarly, you’ll need to buy AirTags – Apple’s item tracking accessory – by December 8 to guarantee they get to you by Christmas.

The company said that anyone who misses the free home delivery cutoff will still have a chance to nab their Xmas gifts.

Once a date has passed, you can still shop online for in-stock items with Apple Pickup or 2-hour courier delivery from your local Apple Store.

To get into the festive spirit, Apple has also launched a Holiday Gift Guide and personalised holiday cards that you can customise online and print at home.

You can check out Apple’s list of order-by dates on its website, here. The Sun has also stuck the full list below.

Apple released four new iPhones on September 24, drawing excited crowds to its stores across the globe.

The iPhone 13 Mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max start at £779/$799, rising all the way to £1,549/$1,599 for the top model.

The company is struggling to meet demand for its devices as Christmas due to a global shortage of the microchips that power them.

Apple boss Tim Cook warned during a recent earnings calls that industry-wide shortages would impact iPhone production in the coming months.

Topped with high demand for the latest models, it’s meant that customers are having to wait longer than ever for their new mobiles.

Shortly after launch, buyers of the iPhone 13 range were faced with delays of up to five weeks to receive the latest models.

Analysts predict the chip supply crisis – which has also impacted the availability of gaming consoles, smart fridges and other devices – will drag on well into 2022.

In other news, iPhone owners in the UK have had a £750 payout from Google snatched from them by the UK’s highest court.

Google Chrome users are being warned to delete the browser amid fears highly sensitive data is being harvested.

Facebook has announced that it’s changing its name to “Meta”.

The company is working to create lifelike avatars of its users that they can control in a virtual world called the “metaverse”.

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