The Apple Store online has gone offline, as expected, ahead of iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max and Apple Watch Series 4 pre-orders.

Pre-orders are set to go live on September 14 at 12:01AM PDT/3:01AM EDT.
As we noted in our tutorial on how to pre-order your iPhone Xs tonight, we told you to finalize your billing and shipping address before the store went down. If you didn’t, no big deal, but when the store goes back online, you may need some extra steps to confirm.
What are you pre-ordering tonight? Tell us in our informal poll here. Just under six hours to go, folks. Good luck.
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