The Apple iPhone Air is a very Apple product, if that makes sense – the phone sacrifices a lot to hit its design target of 5.6mm thickness and 165g weight. While it is hardly a battery endurance champ, the Air makes up for it with a unique feeling in the hand for anyone who has only used thick and heavy smartphones.

At 165g, the Air weighs more like a 6.3” phone, but instead it has a 6.5” display – a 120Hz LTPO OLED with Ceramic Shield 2 and an anti-reflective coating. The battery that fits inside the slim and light body has only 3,149mAh capacity, but Apple managed to eke out an average 12:44h Active Use Score. The Pixel 10 Pro XL (232g, 5,200mAh battery) only got 12:29h. A vanilla iPhone 17 (177g, 3,692mAh) did better with a result of 14:59h.

The other sacrifice you have to make when going with the iPhone Air is that you only get a single 48MP camera on the back. It’s not a particularly good camera either. Still, the Air is a very popular model – and its arrival caused several Android manufacturers to try and jump on the super thin bandwagon too.

Some of them gave up, but not Apple – the iPhone Air was sold well enough to warrant a sequel. However, this September is reserved for the iPhone 18 Pro models, so the new Air might have to wait until spring 2027.

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