Apple’s iPhone Air MagSafe Battery is available for $59, a $40 saving from its $99 list price, but buyers should verify stock and seller before ordering.
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iPhone Air Gets a Record $260 Discount Across Every Storage Option at Best Buy
Best Buy is taking $260 off unlocked iPhone Air configurations during its Techtober sale, bringing the entry model to $839 while stock lasts.
iOS 27 dictation improves spelling and punctuation in English on select iPhones
With Apple Intelligence in iOS 27, dictation uses an on-device model to improve spelling, punctuation and capitalization. Apple says it’s available in English on “iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, or later,” and its feature availability page lists nine varieties of English. The A20 Pro chip in iPhone 18 Pro. Image: Apple…
What Not to Buy From Apple Right Now: Five Purchases With a Published Date Against Them
Five things in Apple’s current lineup are the wrong purchase this week, and in each case the argument is a published date or a published price rather than an opinion: AirPods 4 in either version, iPhone Air at $1,099, iPhone 16 at $799, any coverage decision made before Monday, and an Apple Watch pre-order placed…
Apple Intelligence on a Budget: $699 Buys In, and $1,099 Buys the Tier Above
If you are buying hardware purely to get Apple Intelligence, buy the iPhone 17e at $699. It is the cheapest device on Apple’s own price list that also appears on Apple’s Apple Intelligence device page, and the software itself costs nothing: iOS 27 arrives free on Monday, September 14. Siri AI is the headline Apple…
Pro or Not in 2026: Apple's Pro iPhone Line Is Down to Two, and It Sits $100 Above iPhone Air
Most people should buy non-Pro, and specifically iPhone 17 at $899. Go Pro only if one of five published capabilities matters to you: the 4x and 8x telephoto, the variable aperture, ProRes RAW with Apple Log 2 and Genlock, USB 3 transfer at 10Gb/s, or battery ratings above 30 hours. If any of those does…
Apple's iPhone Ladder in 2026: $699 to $1,999 in Six Steps, and Only Two Are Worth Paying For
Apple’s iPhone lineup now runs from $699 to $1,999 across seven models, and only two of the six price steps between them buy enough capability to justify the money: the $100 from iPhone 16 to iPhone 17, and the $100 from iPhone Air to iPhone 18 Pro. Every other rung on the ladder is a…
iPhone 18 Pro Reaches 2TB and iPhone Air Stops at 1TB: Where Each Storage Ladder Ends
Apple’s new iPhones do not offer the same capacities as each other. iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPhone Duo climb to 2TB, iPhone Air stops at 1TB, iPhone 17 stops at 512GB, and iPhone 16 is the only model in the lineup that still starts at 128GB. iPhone Duo, one of three…
iPhone 18 Pro Thickness: 8.75 mm Against iPhone 17, iPhone Air and a Folded iPhone Duo
Both iPhone 18 Pro sizes are 8.75 mm deep, the same depth Apple published for the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max. That makes the new Pro thicker than the 7.95 mm iPhone 17, well thicker than the 5.64 mm iPhone Air, and thinner than the 11.3 mm an iPhone Duo measures when it…
iPhone 18 Pro Storage Costs the Same as iPhone Air and iPhone Duo Storage: $200, $400, $600
Storage costs the same on every new iPhone Apple sells. Moving from 256GB to 512GB is $200 on iPhone 18 Pro, on iPhone 18 Pro Max, on iPhone Air and on iPhone Duo, the step to 1TB is $400 on all of them, and the step to 2TB is $600 wherever it is offered. iPhone…
iPhone 18 Pro Is Aluminum, Not Titanium: Every 2026 iPhone Frame Material Apple Names
Apple’s tech specs page describes the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max as an aluminum unibody design with a Ceramic Shield 2 front and a Ceramic Shield back. Titanium, the metal Apple used for the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro, is now on the iPhone Air and the iPhone Duo instead. Apple…
Which iPhone Should You Buy in 2026? A Decision Table for All Seven Apple Sells
Apple sells seven iPhones as of today, and the price ladder runs from $699 to $1,999. The $699 iPhone 17e is the cheapest way in, the $1,199 iPhone 18 Pro is the model most people asking this question end up buying, and the $1,999 iPhone Duo is the only one that does not arrive until…
Apple No Longer Sells the iPhone 17 Pro: What to Buy Instead Now Older iPhones Cost $100 More
The oldest trick in iPhone buying, waiting for the new Pro so you can pick up last year’s Pro cheaply, does not work in 2026. Apple has stopped selling iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, and the four older iPhones it kept are each listed $100 higher on its store than they were…
iPhone Weight Ranked: 165 g iPhone Air to 254 g iPhone Duo, Every Current and Recent Model
The lightest iPhone Apple has sold in the past five years is the 165 g iPhone Air, and the heaviest is the new 254 g iPhone Duo, according to Apple’s tech specs. The iPhone 18 Pro weighs 211 g and the iPhone 18 Pro Max 249 g, both heavier than the 17 Pro models they…
iPhone Duo vs iPhone Air: Apple's Thinnest Phone vs Its Foldable, 165 g vs 254 g
iPhone Air is 5.64 mm thick and weighs 165 g; iPhone Duo is 5.2 mm thick open, 11.3 mm closed, and weighs 254 g, so the foldable is the thinner phone only while it is unfolded and it carries 89 g more. Both are titanium, both use a 2x crop of a 48MP main sensor…
Every iPhone Apple Sells Now: iPhone 18 Pro, 18 Pro Max, 17, 17 Pro and Air Compared
Apple’s iPhone range now spans six phones with confirmed specifications: the new iPhone 18 Pro at $1,199 and iPhone 18 Pro Max at $1,299, plus the 2025 iPhone 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, iPhone 17 and iPhone Air. Screen sizes run from 6.3 to 6.9 inches, video playback from 27 to 45 hours, and top…
iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone Air: Thin and Light or the Full Pro Camera?
The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 and is the phone with the full Pro camera system, a 2-nanometer A20 Pro chip and up to 36 hours of video playback. The iPhone Air is the 5.64 mm, 165-gram phone with a single 48MP rear camera and up to 27 hours of playback, and Apple has…
Dead iPhone 17 and iPhone Air Models Struggle To Turn Back On
Some iPhone 17 and iPhone Air devices refuse to turn back on after the battery dies completely. Find out how to fix the blank screen issue using MagSafe.
iPhone Air Review Roundup: Apple's Obsession with Thinness Has a Price
We looked at most reviews of the iPhone Air and came up with a roundup that gives you the breakdown whether you should buy it or not
Viral Photo of Bent iPhone Air Reignites 'Bendgate' Durability Concerns
A display unit at Fnac Alicante appears visibly curved, igniting Reddit jokes and a durability debate.
iPhone Air Thickness vs Galaxy, Pixel, Xiaomi, OnePlus and More
iPhone Air vs 2025 Flagships: How Apple’s thinnest phone stacks up against Galaxy, Pixel, Xiaomi, and more.
Will the iPhone Air Bend?
Despite its incredible 5.9mm thinness, the fear of a “Bendgate” repeat is, in my opinion, completely unfounded. The anxiety is understandable, but the engineering of this device tells a story of strength, not fragility. Here’s the analysis.