Replace: Three days after Apple Watch Collection 9 hit shops, Apple has opened up orders for Magnetic Hyperlink bands. They begin delivery close to the top of subsequent month.

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

The product web page has been reside for the reason that September 12 occasion ended, however it nonetheless exhibits up as unavailable. Should you attempt to configure an Apple Watch Collection 9 with the Magnetic Hyperlink when ordering, the checkout circulate stops and says to “test again later for availability.”

Apple introduced the brand new Magnetic Hyperlink band final week in the course of the Apple Watch Collection 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 identify distinction, the Leather-based Hyperlink was simply as magnetic.

Apple describes the Magnetic Hyperlink band as smooth 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 out there to pre-order forward of launch tomorrow like the opposite new band kinds. Nevertheless, that can most likely replace tomorrow except Apple opens orders as effectively.

Presumably, the brand new band simply hasn’t been produced early sufficient to satisfy the Apple Watch Collection 9 launch. Fashionable 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 problem for the Apple Look ahead to no less than a couple of straps. Final 12 months, it occurred with one colour of one of many three strap kinds for Apple Watch Extremely.

When the unique Apple Watch launched, the unique fashion of Leather-based Hyperlink, known as Leather-based Loop, was additionally offered later than different bands. You possibly can nonetheless order it, simply not for day one. That influenced my determination to go Basic Buckle as an alternative.