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<span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">The thinnest iPhone ever. With the power of pro inside.</span>
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{{iPhone lineup Navbox}}

The iPhone Air is a [[smartphone]] designed and marketed by [[Apple|Apple]], announced on September 9, 2025, and released on September 19, 2025, alongside the [[iPhone 17]] and the 17 Pro models. It opened a new product category in the lineup — the name borrowed from the MacBook Air playbook — replacing the Plus tier with a different trade entirely: at 5.64 mm, the thinnest iPhone ever made, a titanium-framed 6.5-inch flagship that weighs less than the base iPhone 17 while carrying the Pro-class A19 Pro chip and 12 GB of RAM.

Thinness set every other spec. A single 48-megapixel Fusion camera sits in a full-width plateau; the phone is eSIM-only worldwide — the SIM tray physically doesn't fit — and its radios are Apple silicon end-to-end: the C1X modem and the N1 networking chip (Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, Thread), making the Air the most Apple-silicon iPhone shipped. The battery, the design's obvious hostage, lands closer to adequate than heroic, with a matching MagSafe battery pack sold as the tacit accessory.

At $999 between the 17 and 17 Pro, the Air is the lineup's style flagship — and, by wide consensus, the dress rehearsal for a folding iPhone's thin halves. It remains on sale as of 2026.

= Design =

A 5.64 mm slab — thinner than the camera plateau that interrupts it — in polished grade-5 titanium around Ceramic Shield front and back (the rear's first Ceramic Shield), at 165 g for a 6.5-inch device. Space Black, Cloud White, Light Gold, and Sky Blue. The full-width plateau holds the camera, flash, and the relocated speaker; the frame carries Action Button and Camera Control despite the thickness budget. Apple's launch demo bent it on stage on purpose — the titanium structure's answer to the bendgate ghost — and IP68 held.

= Hardware =

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| style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple|Apple]]
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| style="text-align: left;" | 19th
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| style="text-align: left;" | September 9, 2025
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Released
| style="text-align: left;" | September 19, 2025
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Discontinued
| style="text-align: left;" | — (on sale)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Predecessor
| style="text-align: left;" | — (new category; lineup slot of [[iPhone 16 Plus]])
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Related
| style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 17]] · [[iPhone 17 Pro]] · [[iPhone 17 Pro Max]]
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Display
| style="text-align: left;" | 6.5-inch Super Retina XDR OLED<br>2736 × 1260 (460 ppi)<br>ProMotion 120Hz · Always-On<br>3,000 nits peak · Dynamic Island
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Chip
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple A19|Apple A19 Pro]] (5-core GPU)<br>· 16-core Neural Engine
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Radios
| style="text-align: left;" | Apple C1X modem (5G, sub-6)<br>Apple N1: Wi-Fi 7 · Bluetooth 6 · Thread
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | RAM
| style="text-align: left;" | 12 GB
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Storage
| style="text-align: left;" | 256 GB · 512 GB · 1 TB
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Rear camera
| style="text-align: left;" | 48 MP Fusion, f/1.6, OIS<br>(2× crop tier)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Front camera
| style="text-align: left;" | 18 MP Center Stage (square sensor)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Body
| style="text-align: left;" | '''5.64 mm — thinnest iPhone''' · 165 g<br>titanium frame · Ceramic Shield<br>front and back · IP68
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Battery
| style="text-align: left;" | 3,149 mAh · MagSafe · Qi2<br>(companion MagSafe Battery accessory)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Connectivity
| style="text-align: left;" | USB-C · '''eSIM only (all regions)'''
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Colors
| style="text-align: left;" | Space Black · Cloud White · Light Gold · Sky Blue
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Launch price
| style="text-align: left;" | $999 (256 GB) · $1,199 (512 GB) · $1,399 (1 TB)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | OS
| style="text-align: left;" | iOS 26 ~ current
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The A19 Pro (a five-GPU-core bin of the Pro silicon) with 12 GB of RAM gives the Air genuine Pro-class performance within a thermal envelope that throttles sooner under sustained load — the thinness tax, alongside the 3,149 mAh cell and a single speaker whose quality drew the launch cycle's sharpest criticism at the price. The all-Apple radio stack (C1X + N1) debuted here ahead of the rest of the line.

= Camera =

One lens, deliberately: the 48 MP Fusion main with sensor-crop 2×, Night mode, Dolby Vision 4K — the [[iPhone 17]]'s primary camera without its ultra-wide sibling. The 18 MP square-sensor Center Stage front camera (shared with the 17 generation) frames landscape selfies from a portrait grip. The missing ultra-wide and telephoto are the price sticker of the 5.64 mm figure; buyers photographing at 0.5× or 5× were pointed at the Pros.

= Software =

Shipped with iOS 26 (the Liquid Glass redesign year, version numbering unified across platforms); Apple Intelligence full-featured on its 12 GB. Current release train since.

= Release and reception =

The Air drew the launch's longest hands-on lines and its most divided reviews: the thinness and weight registered as genuinely new in a way spec bumps had not for years — "the first iPhone in a decade that feels different" — against pointed criticism of the single camera, single speaker, and day-long-but-no-longer battery at $999. Early sales reporting sketched a familiar pattern: strong launch curiosity, then a settling into the style-buyer niche while the Pros carried volume. The consensus reading — the Air as public beta for the folding iPhone's engineering — was strengthened by the strikethrough entry on every 2026 roadmap: [[iPhone Fold]].

= Legacy =

Whatever the Air's own sales trajectory, its parts list is the future the lineup announced: Apple's complete radio independence (C1X + N1), Ceramic Shield backs, and the sub-6 mm structural engineering a folding phone requires. It retired the Plus tier's screen-per-dollar formula in favor of desirability-per-gram — the first time since the [[iPhone 5c]] that Apple aimed a lineup slot at want over need, and this time at the premium end.

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{| style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #333; text-align: center;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- | colspan="4" style="padding: 28px 20px 42px;" | <div style="font: bold 2em/1.2 -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'SF Pro Display', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: var(--wiki-color); margin-bottom: 0.8em;">iPhone Air</div> <span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">The thinnest iPhone ever. With the power of pro inside.</span> |- | colspan="4" style="padding: 0;" | <div style="max-width: 300px; margin: 5px auto;">![[iphone_air.webp]]</div> |- | style="width: 25%; background-color: #000; color: #fff;" | '''Space Black''' | style="width: 25%; background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #000;" | '''Cloud White''' | style="width: 25%; background-color: #fffcf5; color: #000;" | '''Light Gold''' | style="width: 25%; background-color: #f0f9ff; color: #000;" | '''Sky Blue''' |- | colspan="4" style="background-color: #333; padding: 8px;" | [https://www.apple.com/iphone-air/ <span style="color: #fff;">Official site for iPhone Air</span>] |} {{iPhone lineup Navbox}} The iPhone Air is a [[smartphone]] designed and marketed by [[Apple|Apple]], announced on September 9, 2025, and released on September 19, 2025, alongside the [[iPhone 17]] and the 17 Pro models. It opened a new product category in the lineup — the name borrowed from the MacBook Air playbook — replacing the Plus tier with a different trade entirely: at 5.64 mm, the thinnest iPhone ever made, a titanium-framed 6.5-inch flagship that weighs less than the base iPhone 17 while carrying the Pro-class A19 Pro chip and 12 GB of RAM. Thinness set every other spec. A single 48-megapixel Fusion camera sits in a full-width plateau; the phone is eSIM-only worldwide — the SIM tray physically doesn't fit — and its radios are Apple silicon end-to-end: the C1X modem and the N1 networking chip (Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, Thread), making the Air the most Apple-silicon iPhone shipped. The battery, the design's obvious hostage, lands closer to adequate than heroic, with a matching MagSafe battery pack sold as the tacit accessory. At $999 between the 17 and 17 Pro, the Air is the lineup's style flagship — and, by wide consensus, the dress rehearsal for a folding iPhone's thin halves. It remains on sale as of 2026. = Design = A 5.64 mm slab — thinner than the camera plateau that interrupts it — in polished grade-5 titanium around Ceramic Shield front and back (the rear's first Ceramic Shield), at 165 g for a 6.5-inch device. Space Black, Cloud White, Light Gold, and Sky Blue. The full-width plateau holds the camera, flash, and the relocated speaker; the frame carries Action Button and Camera Control despite the thickness budget. Apple's launch demo bent it on stage on purpose — the titanium structure's answer to the bendgate ghost — and IP68 held. = Hardware = {| style="max-width: 500px; border: 2px solid #555; text-align: center;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left; width: 22%;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Developer | style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple|Apple]] |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Generation | style="text-align: left;" | 19th |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Announced | style="text-align: left;" | September 9, 2025 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Released | style="text-align: left;" | September 19, 2025 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Discontinued | style="text-align: left;" | — (on sale) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Predecessor | style="text-align: left;" | — (new category; lineup slot of [[iPhone 16 Plus]]) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Related | style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 17]] · [[iPhone 17 Pro]] · [[iPhone 17 Pro Max]] |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Display | style="text-align: left;" | 6.5-inch Super Retina XDR OLED<br>2736 × 1260 (460 ppi)<br>ProMotion 120Hz · Always-On<br>3,000 nits peak · Dynamic Island |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Chip | style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple A19|Apple A19 Pro]] (5-core GPU)<br>· 16-core Neural Engine |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Radios | style="text-align: left;" | Apple C1X modem (5G, sub-6)<br>Apple N1: Wi-Fi 7 · Bluetooth 6 · Thread |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | RAM | style="text-align: left;" | 12 GB |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Storage | style="text-align: left;" | 256 GB · 512 GB · 1 TB |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Rear camera | style="text-align: left;" | 48 MP Fusion, f/1.6, OIS<br>(2× crop tier) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Front camera | style="text-align: left;" | 18 MP Center Stage (square sensor) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Body | style="text-align: left;" | '''5.64 mm — thinnest iPhone''' · 165 g<br>titanium frame · Ceramic Shield<br>front and back · IP68 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Battery | style="text-align: left;" | 3,149 mAh · MagSafe · Qi2<br>(companion MagSafe Battery accessory) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Connectivity | style="text-align: left;" | USB-C · '''eSIM only (all regions)''' |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Colors | style="text-align: left;" | Space Black · Cloud White · Light Gold · Sky Blue |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Launch price | style="text-align: left;" | $999 (256 GB) · $1,199 (512 GB) · $1,399 (1 TB) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | OS | style="text-align: left;" | iOS 26 ~ current |} The A19 Pro (a five-GPU-core bin of the Pro silicon) with 12 GB of RAM gives the Air genuine Pro-class performance within a thermal envelope that throttles sooner under sustained load — the thinness tax, alongside the 3,149 mAh cell and a single speaker whose quality drew the launch cycle's sharpest criticism at the price. The all-Apple radio stack (C1X + N1) debuted here ahead of the rest of the line. = Camera = One lens, deliberately: the 48 MP Fusion main with sensor-crop 2×, Night mode, Dolby Vision 4K — the [[iPhone 17]]'s primary camera without its ultra-wide sibling. The 18 MP square-sensor Center Stage front camera (shared with the 17 generation) frames landscape selfies from a portrait grip. The missing ultra-wide and telephoto are the price sticker of the 5.64 mm figure; buyers photographing at 0.5× or 5× were pointed at the Pros. = Software = Shipped with iOS 26 (the Liquid Glass redesign year, version numbering unified across platforms); Apple Intelligence full-featured on its 12 GB. Current release train since. = Release and reception = The Air drew the launch's longest hands-on lines and its most divided reviews: the thinness and weight registered as genuinely new in a way spec bumps had not for years — "the first iPhone in a decade that feels different" — against pointed criticism of the single camera, single speaker, and day-long-but-no-longer battery at $999. Early sales reporting sketched a familiar pattern: strong launch curiosity, then a settling into the style-buyer niche while the Pros carried volume. The consensus reading — the Air as public beta for the folding iPhone's engineering — was strengthened by the strikethrough entry on every 2026 roadmap: [[iPhone Fold]]. = Legacy = Whatever the Air's own sales trajectory, its parts list is the future the lineup announced: Apple's complete radio independence (C1X + N1), Ceramic Shield backs, and the sub-6 mm structural engineering a folding phone requires. It retired the Plus tier's screen-per-dollar formula in favor of desirability-per-gram — the first time since the [[iPhone 5c]] that Apple aimed a lineup slot at want over need, and this time at the premium end.