However, if someone would like to anticipate a failure, they must first check the date of manufacture. People who experience a problem with a flickering screen, or any other problem covered by one of Apple's service programs, can immediately report the defective equipment to the representative of the company. 3rd generation iPad Air - service program However, the campaign does not cover all copies of these devices, but only those produced in the period from March to October 2019. This time, iPad Air 3rd generation tablets will be repaired or replaced for free due to defective screens, which after some time begin to flicker. We suggest how to decode it.Īpple has started another service program. Just an extra step.Īpple also has the following site: Check Your Service and Support Coverage - Apple Support, (which is the screen shot your left) which looks up by SN, and I had hoped it might give me more info, but it is very limited when the item is older.To check the production date of an Apple phone, tablet or computer, just look at the serial number of your iPhone, iPad or Mac. I now need to go to one web site to get the product info from the Serial Number, and if that web site doesn't have all the information I need, I can go to Apple's page to get more details. I just miss the page because it would take you right to the product. I'm not sure what it used to say, but now it says, 'Browse Tech Specs By Product.' Perhaps it used to say something else, although I'm pretty sure you could put other info in there beside just SN, so I don't think it was restricted to that. The web site does indeed work, but you can no longer search by serial number, as in the past. So this could have made my question or at the minimum, left a gap in my question. I then started this discussion from the choice of community that best-fit, but not really. I then saw a place to start a Discussion from that article, and when I tried, it stopped me with this message: ' We're unable to find the community associated with the article HT201300.

In the 'Helpful? Yes/No' at the bottom of that page, I clicked on NO, and had the opportunity to leave Apple a message about it and how it could be more helpful.

I did a search, and found this article: Identify your MacBook Pro model - Apple Support. Perhaps how I came to this discussion group might help.

I tried a brand new, 2018, iPad 6 SN, and still get the message.

'I thought it was older SNs, but not so.'

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