Apple Watch Sequence 9 comes out Friday, however you continue to cannot purchase the Magnetic Hyperlink band

Right here’s a little bit of a thriller: it’s the eve of Apple Watch Sequence 9 launch day, and you continue to can’t order the brand new Magnetic Hyperlink band.

The product web page has been stay because the September 12 occasion ended, nevertheless it nonetheless reveals up as unavailable. In the event you attempt to configure an Apple Watch Sequence 9 with the Magnetic Hyperlink when ordering, the checkout move stops and says to “verify again later for availability.”

Apple introduced the brand new Magnetic Hyperlink band final week in the course of the Apple Watch Sequence 9 occasion. The strap replaces the Leather-based Hyperlink band as Apple strikes from leather-based items to its new FineWoven materials. Regardless of the title distinction, the Leather-based Hyperlink was simply as magnetic.

Apple describes the Magnetic Hyperlink band as tender and “suedelike” on its web site. It is available in three colours: Pacific Blue, Taupe, and Evergreen. It is available in S/M and M/L sizes for 41mm and 45mm watches.

Amazon lists the Magnetic Hyperlink as obtainable to pre-order forward of launch tomorrow like the opposite new band kinds. Nonetheless, that can most likely replace tomorrow until Apple opens orders as effectively.

Presumably, the brand new band simply hasn’t been produced early sufficient to satisfy the Apple Watch Sequence 9 launch. Trendy Buckle, one other leather-based strap that has moved to FineWoven, has not confronted delays.

Band availability at launch has at all times been considerably of a difficulty for the Apple Look ahead to no less than a number of straps. Final yr, it occurred with one coloration of one of many three strap kinds for Apple Watch Extremely.

When the unique Apple Watch launched, the unique type of Leather-based Hyperlink, referred to as Leather-based Loop, was additionally offered later than different bands. You might nonetheless order it, simply not for day one. That influenced my determination to go Traditional Buckle as a substitute.