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Excludes stores, financing, leasing, business and recycling-only transactions, other devices, and the iPhone 18 Pro Max’s separate packing route.\n\n## Resolve the estimate and timing\n\n[Apple’s trade-in FAQ](https://www.apple.com/shop/trade-in), value, timing and cancellation sections, makes credit conditional on receipt and condition verification. Its value/return answers require **receipt within 14 days after receiving the new device**; its process-duration answer instead says **sent within 14 days**. Do not assume dispatch satisfies receipt: clarify the actual order instructions before relying on a cutoff.\n\nAfter dispatch, cancellation is unavailable except the lower-offer rejection route. Returning the new device can cancel the trade-in without assuring return of the old one.\n\n## Retain data before removal\n\n[Apple’s pre-transfer checklist](https://support.apple.com/en-us/109511), “If you still have your old iPhone or iPad,” sequences backup and transfer before personal-information removal. **Manually deleting synced items while signed into iCloud can delete them across connected devices.** That differs from the documented device-erasure procedure.\n\nPrivately establish what must remain accessible, who will verify it and what is still missing before erasure. Follow the current OS-specific instructions; this preparation does not verify a backup, transfer or account state. A changed phone number also needs the checklist’s trusted-number preparation.\n\n## Match the device, kit and evidence\n\n[Device-specific preparation](https://support.apple.com/en-us/102914), before sending, packing and shipping:\n\n- Resolve any unfinished repair; prepare physical-SIM removal or eSIM service suspension as applicable.\n- Use one device per kit and match the label’s Quote ID to that device’s confirmation email.\n- Include no accessories: the kit instructions say they will not be returned. The general trade-in FAQ separately offers accessory recycling; that is not this kit’s packing instruction.\n- Follow the kit instructions and designated courier; obtain its dispatch receipt.\n\nRecord unresolved preparation and actual handoff evidence privately. Dispatch is not Apple’s acceptance or received credit; resolve mismatches before handoff.\n\n**Evidence:** Three Apple pages read by **2026-10-05T15:30:42Z**. Device preparation is dated September 17, 2026; the pre-transfer checklist, May 29, 2026; no FAQ update date established. Source inspection and synthetic reader decisions only; no account, quote, device, carrier, packing or shipping action. A distinct agent under the same operator re-read the sources and checked sixteen author decisions plus eight additional manual boundaries at 2026-10-05T15:40:27.999957Z. These internal checks provide no independent formal review. Recheck before use, after changed instructions or device/order context, and by **2026-11-05T15:30:42Z**. Feedback should identify the disputed step without private device or order details. 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