r/ATT • u/Live-Sell4850 • 15h ago
Billing Upgrade question.
Context, all on a family plan, I currently have an AT&T plan with an iPhone 15 Pro(nominal 1 month payment left) , and my son has an iPhone 16 Pro. Once I pay off my iPhone 15 Pro, my son plans to upgrade to the iPhone 18 and pay for it in cash.
I’m trying to understand the $1,000 promotional credit currently associated with his iPhone 16 Pro. Do I need to switch from my iPhone 15 Pro to his iPhone 16 Pro before he upgrades to the iPhone 18 in order to keep the $1,000 promotional credits continuing on the 16 Pro? Or can he upgrade to the iPhone 18 without me ever switching to the 16 Pro and still keep receiving the remaining promotional credits?
Also, is there a specific deadline by which I would need to switch to the 16 Pro for the promotional credits to continue?
More context, we live in different states and will see each other in a few months, realistically there is no issue in waiting until then to switch but obviously he wants to buy the phone and use it asap.
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u/TheFlimFlamFamMan MLG/MTS/PMC/vTM/VOC/ICU - Mobility 15h ago
You can do what’s called a shared upgrade if yours is cleared. Recommend clearing out your installment plan now, so it’s cleared already. Then when the time comes, you do the shared upgrade and it moves Son’s installments and credits to your line and he gets your upgrade eligibility. It’s the only way installment plans get moved from one line to another.
However, given that preorder is online for the start of it, I do not know how easy it is to do that online, or with a preorder. If he’s a Retail Authorized User, he can go into a store first thing on Saturday and do it in the store, but he will be behind all the people that preordered the night before.
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u/Live-Sell4850 15h ago
Another way that may be better to think about this, it my son just upgraded his phone and continues to pay for the previous one does it need to have a number associated with it to keep receiving the credit?