Terms & Privacy

Last updated October 30, 2026. This is a plain-language summary while full terms are prepared.

Not affiliated with Apple

New Phone Scout is an independent service. It isn’t made, endorsed, or sponsored by Apple Inc. iPhone and Apple Store are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Product images belong to Apple and are shown only to help you pick the right model.

Terms

What we do

We check Apple’s online store for in-store pickup availability of the iPhones you choose, at the Apple Stores you choose, and notify you when one becomes available. We don’t sell iPhones, reserve them for you, or guarantee you’ll get one. Stock can sell out before you reserve it.

What we don’t cover

Walk-in availability, carrier stores, other retailers, and delivery dates.

Plans and billing

• Starter is $5 a month for 2 alerts at a time. Plus is $10 a month for up to 5. Max is $20 a month for up to 10. Outside the US you pay a set price in your local currency, shown before checkout. In Türkiye, plans are billed in US dollars.
• We sometimes try different prices for new customers. The price you see before you pay is the price you’re charged, and we won’t raise it while your plan stays active.
• Every plan covers up to 5 Apple Stores. You can add extra stores from your account: up to 10 stores for $5 more a month, or up to 20 for $10 more, on any plan (in your plan’s currency outside the US). Extra stores are billed on your plan’s billing day, so the first charge covers only the rest of that month.
• Plans renew monthly until you cancel. There’s no free trial.
• You can switch plans or cancel anytime from your account.
• An upgrade starts right away: you pay the difference for the rest of your billing month then, and the new price after that. A downgrade starts on your next bill; you keep your current plan until then. Extra stores work the same way: adding them or going from 10 to 20 starts right away, and going from 20 to 10 starts on your next bill.
• Cancelling stops your plan from renewing. It stays on until the end of the month you’ve paid for, then stops. Removing extra stores works the same way, and they end with your plan. Apart from the first-week refund below, we don’t refund partial months.
• First-week refund: if no alert has reached you yet, email support@newphonescout.com within 7 days of your first payment and we’ll refund that payment in full and end your plan. An alert has reached you once a notification about your iPhone has gone to one of your devices or an alert email has gone to you (test notifications don’t count). From then on, that month counts as used. It covers your plan’s first payment, not extra stores.

Referral program

You can earn cash by sending friends to us with your referral link or code.

• Who can refer: anyone who has paid for a plan at least once, including past customers who have since cancelled.
• Who can be referred: someone who has never paid for New Phone Scout. Referring yourself, your own other accounts, or someone who has paid before doesn’t count. Once a friend’s account is linked to you, it stays linked to you.
• Your friend gets 20% off every payment, for their plan and extra stores, for as long as they stay subscribed. If they cancel and come back, it comes back too. It applies when they sign in within 30 days of opening your link on that device, or when they type your code at checkout.
• You earn 30% of what your friend pays, before tax, for as long as they pay. There’s no cap. We count it in US dollars at the rate their payment was converted, rounded down to the cent. We can change the rate for your account from then on; what you’ve already earned stays.
• Each commission becomes payable 14 days after your friend’s payment. We pay by hand about once a month, once $10 or more is payable and we have your payout details. Anything under $10 rolls over and doesn’t expire.
• We pay by PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Zelle or Wise. Outside the US, we pay by PayPal or Wise. You need to give us accurate payout details; a payment sent to the details you gave us counts as paid. If you change your payout details, we email you, and we may confirm the change with you before we pay.
• If a friend’s payment is refunded or charged back, the commission on it comes back out of your balance. That can take your balance below zero; it’s repaid from your future earnings. If a chargeback is decided in our favor, the commission comes back.

When you share your link or code, follow these rules. Breaking them can void your earnings.

• Say you earn from it: “#ad” or “I earn from this link”.
• Don’t say or suggest we’re Apple or work with Apple.
• No speed claims except our own published wording (“about 2 seconds from spotting stock to your alert”). No check-interval claims.
• Don’t call it free.
• Don’t post codes on coupon or deal sites, and don’t bid on “New Phone Scout” in ads.
• Answering someone who asks what to use is welcome. Mass replies and spam aren’t.
• Only say what’s true for you. Don’t say you got a phone with it unless you did.

A few more things to know about the program:

• Fraud and abuse: if we see self-referral, fake or duplicate accounts, shared cards or accounts, or a broken rule, we can void a referral, take back its commissions (including ones we’ve already paid, which then come out of your future earnings), remove your friend’s discount, cancel your unpaid balance, stop paying you commissions from then on, or remove you from the program and close your referral link.
• Taxes: you’re responsible for any taxes on what you earn. We may ask for tax information (for example a W-9 in the US, or a W-8BEN outside it) and hold payouts until we have it. We may report payments to tax authorities as the law requires.
• If you delete your account, any unpaid balance is forfeited and your link stops working. Friends you referred keep their discount. We keep records of the payouts we’ve made to you (amount, date and method) for tax and accounting.
• We can change or end the program at any time. We’ll pay what you’ve already earned under the rules in place when you earned it.
• Referring people doesn’t make you our employee, partner or agent, and you can’t make promises on our behalf.

Alerts and email

Stock alerts arrive as notifications on the phones and computers where you turn them on. You can turn them off on any device from your account or in your device’s settings. We also email you each time your iPhone comes back in stock (notifications keep coming while it stays in stock), and your sign-in codes. Now and then we may email you news, like a recap of a restock. Each one has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing never stops your alerts or sign-in codes. If you refer friends, we also email you when we send you a payout and when your payout details change.

Fair use

One account per person. Don’t resell alerts or use the service to buy iPhones in bulk. We may suspend accounts that do.

No warranty

The service is provided as is. Apple can change its store at any time, which can delay or interrupt alerts. Our total liability is limited to what you paid us in the last month.

Privacy

What we collect

• Your email address, to sign you in and to email you your alerts.
• A notification address for each device where you turn on alerts. It comes from your browser’s push service and lets us send that device alerts. It isn’t your phone number.
• If you add a passkey, its public key. Face ID, Touch ID and fingerprints never leave your device; we can’t see them.
• Your country, the Apple Stores you pick, and either your ZIP code (US) or, if you tap Near me, your location rounded to about 1 km. To list nearby stores first, we also use the rough location your connection suggests; we don’t keep that.
• The iPhones you track, and a history of the alerts we send you, including whether you opened one and tapped through to Apple.
• How you found us: the name of the site that linked you here (like google.com, never the full address you came from) and the first page you saw here. It helps us learn what brings people in.
• Billing details through Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.
• If you refer friends or were referred: who referred whom, the link or code used, and when. A cookie remembers the referral link you opened for 30 days. We count how many times each referral link is opened per day, not who opened it.
• To spot people referring themselves, a scrambled (hashed) version of the connection a referrer or referred friend signs in from, never the address itself. We keep it 30 days.
• If you refer friends, the payout method and handle you give us (like a PayPal email or a Venmo username), and a record of each payout we send you.

How we use it

Only to run the service you signed up for: checking stock, sending alerts and sign-in codes, billing you, and, if you take part, the referral program (discounts, commissions, payouts, and catching self-referrals and fraud). We don’t sell your information or use it for ads.

To catch people referring themselves, we compare a referrer’s and their friend’s hashed connections, the fingerprint Stripe gives each card (never the card number), and email addresses in a standard form (for example, a Gmail address without its dots or +tag).

If someone referred you, they see only counts, like how many friends signed up and how many pay, never your name or email address.

We do show anonymous counts of the alerts we’ve sent, like “48 people notified at 36 Apple Stores,” and which iPhones came in at which stores. They never include names, email addresses, or anything else that identifies you.

Who we share it with

Stripe for payments; Apple, Google, Mozilla or Microsoft, whichever runs your browser’s push service, to deliver notifications (they see an encrypted message, not its contents); Cloudflare to host the service and block bots; Cloudflare and Resend to send email; and PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Zelle or Wise, whichever you pick, to send you referral payouts. Each only gets what it needs to do its job.

Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it: email support@newphonescout.com. If you’re in the UK or the EU, you can also complain to your data protection authority.

Deleting your data

Cancel your plan, then email support@newphonescout.com from the address on your account to ask us to delete it. We remove your email address, devices, passkeys, location, and alert history within 30 days. We also delete your referral details and payout handle. If you referred friends, any unpaid balance is forfeited, and we keep records of the payouts we’ve made to you (amount, date and method) for tax and accounting. We keep your old referral code, so nobody else can use it, and the anonymous counts of how often each code’s link was opened. If someone referred you, their record of what they earned stays, without your name on it.