Apple 's iPhone 14 Plus, its latest 6.7-inch non-Pro version of iPhone will be officially released this Friday (October 7). Apple's website currently shows that shipment of all models and configurations is delayed until next week. Apple's U.S. Orders page now gives delivery estimates between Tuesday, October 11 and Thursday, October 13, with iPhone 14 Plus models available in blue, purple, midnight, starlight and PRODUCT (RED) colors, with storage capacity of 128GB, 256GB and 512GB.

iPhone 14 Plus was launched three weeks after the launch of other models of the iPhone 14 series, and four weeks after the pre-order began.
shipment delay is in stark contrast to our survey one week after the pre-order began, when no delays were made on any iPhone 14 Plus model. At that time, delivery of iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max was estimated to be delayed by several days, and in some cases several weeks.
iPhone 14 Plus is for customers who want a bigger iPhone without having all the features of the Apple high-end model, but the demand for new models has not reached the highs expected by Apple.
On Monday after the pre-order began, analyst Kuo Mingchi said that the pre-order results of the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus are "unremarkable", which is worse than the pre-order results of the third-generation iPhone SE and iPhone 13 mini, indicating that Apple's positioning of these two new standard models may have failed.
It is said that in order to meet the expectations of poor demand, Apple asked assembly partners to transfer some iPhone 14 production capacity to the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, which is said to have the highest demand so far.
has also been reported that Apple has put on hold plans to increase the production of these two devices. On the other hand, the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max are still in high demand.
According to a report, these two non-Pro versions of iPhone 14 have depreciated in the resale market, more than twice the proportion of iPhone 13 in the same time period last year.
iPhone 14 Plus, like the iPhone 14, uses the same chip as the iPhone 13 Pro, the camera has also been improved, and some other minor improvements. Critics called the iPhone 14 "iPhone 13S" and noticed that it had fewer improvements and changes compared to its predecessors.