iPhone Air: What Real Users Actually Think After Months

A different look at it. I'm disabled with a progressive terminal illness and as I progress my hands weaken. The air has been an absolute game changer for me so light and easy for me to hold one handed now.

Held one in store and it felt great in the hands. I wouldn't want to take a loss in camera or battery. They just can't seem to make a segment of iPhone that isn't the base or the pro.

Samsung has done same thing to S26 Edge. Not enough demand for slim phones.

You have to sacrifice a lot of features like battery life, cameras, etc to make a slim phone work, and nobody really asked for a slimmer phone. I do hear people asking for a smaller phone, but that's not the same as slim.

iPhone Air is such a great phone. I love mine.

I'd much rather have stereo speakers than a second camera. Just make the single camera as good as possible.

That implies there's a wrong choice. It's just a phone. Get whatever you want.

I miss the camera, but overall I prefer this phone to any other iPhone I have owned.

I smile every time I pick mine up. It's the sexiest phone ever made.

For me the Air has been an absolute delight to use. Does it have limitations that would be deal-breakers for some people? Yes, yes it does, and for those people there is a super-strong iPhone lineup. For my use cases it's a fantastic phone and hints at a really interesting future with gossamer-like devices.

I kept my 16 Pro Max around and when I pick it up it feels like it's 10 years old. Hoping the discontinuation rumors aren't true because it would be a real bummer to 'upgrade' to a substantially thicker and heavier phone someday.

I have the iphone air and i love it. And honestly I don't care if Apple stops making it. If apple discontinues the air, I'll be using my phone for next several years and I'll eventually get bored with it and get another phone.

I can't go back now. Holding my wife's 16 Pro feels like I'm holding an encyclopedia.

1 month in and yeah the camera is underwhelming. Loving the thing tho, finally a refreshing iPhone after all these years for me.

They need to switch to silicon carbon batteries for this phone to make sense. That and an ultrawide lens and i would get one instantly.

The phone is damn near revolutionary. It's the first "different" feeling iPhone in years and it doesn't compromise performance or screen. Battery life has not been an issue in my few days of using it and been on par or better than my previous phone.

A lot of people are saying 'this thing is too fucking heavy', myself included. So I'm very excited.

FWIW, I went from a 16PM to an iPhone Air and it def doesn't feel like a downgrade. I'm really enjoying it.

The author highlights the ultimate hardware paradox: demanding a smaller, lighter device while simultaneously asking for more cameras and better battery life.

Pro and Max were consistently out of stock. Air had been readily available most places I checked, I guess that says a lot about its demand.

Oh no I wonder why. Anyway I hope they'll make a 18 mini...

I replaced my 13 mini with an Air over the weekend. I love it. It fits my niche use case perfectly: I don't care about having one speaker because I always listen to music through headphones, I don't care about the lack of an ultra-wide camera because I never used the one in my 13 for anything more than casual photos of my immediate surroundings, and it has nearly double the battery life of my 13 mini.

I appreciate the optimism, but I think we are cooked, and I love the air.

Looks great but lacks functionality.

Same. I notice the thin and lightness everyday.

I've had the Air since launch, and I agree, its biggest handicap is its camera. I'm betting next Air generation will include a 2nd camera, hopefully minimizing that gap.

I bought my Air in Space Black last week. It was the best decision i ever made! It is the most beautiful iPhone i ever had and everything else is on point. It feels so premium in your hand. Gave in my 15 pro max and don't regret it one second.

I love my Air.

I haven't been a regular iPhone user for about 8 years, but because the Air is selling poorly you can get a new one cheaply (40% discount). I'll be buying one and using it for my next phone cycle.

I love the air. Coming from a 15 PM. The only complaint I have is not so much that it has one speaker but that one speaker starts to 'rattle' or vibrate on sounds that have bass. I do use my phone for meetings occasionally and watching content and in those cases I do notice it.

At first it feels great, but I know when the novelty wears off, I'm stuck thinking I could have gotten a better phone for $100 more.

I need two phones for work. I have the Air and the Pro Max. Its just stunning how I always just pick the Air for almost anything... the form factor is just way way to good... feels magic. It totally destroyed my iphone 17 pro max experience.

It's not about how thin it LOOKS, it's about how light it feels in your hand. Honestly, its incredible.

Let's be honest, ANY modern day camera on a phone from a major manufacturer is good enough for 99.99% of people. Beyond that, the phone calls, texts, web browsers, gpses, etc. It's more than capable and it's super thin and light. The entire point of a phone is to be portable. Performance stopped mattering 5 years ago. Everyone has been asking for thinner and lighter anyways, here it is.

It's a terribly compromised creation. The ONLY usp it has is the thinness.

It's just too expensive for what it offers.

I love mine. Battery life is great. I hardly ever drop below 50% and I only charge to 80%. The mono speaker doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would. The camera is fine. I don't really use it so I don't care.

Real-world battery life 9 hours. 7:10am to 3:42pm before I gave up at 4% and put the phone on car charger. Used wifi on two plane flights (1 hour each). Listened to music on AirPods on each flight and an hour in the lounge. Read Kindle and light web browsing. 3 short phone calls. Some email and text messages. No video. Did not activate low power mode. Verdict - not an all-day battery but passable if you don't mind the range anxiety.

All the stuff YouTube reviewers were complaining about were non-issues. Battery life is completely fine for a large amount of people. Yes if you're a doom scroller or glued to your phone all day, then it will die. But even then, charging is everywhere, and even a 10 min quick charge during lunch or something can add almost 20% of battery. The single camera is fine. Most of the time, I always used the main shooter.

I personally love my Air, the better camera on a Pro is nice but not a must have for me. Battery life is solid, but the size of the phone is absolutely perfect.

I love my Air. The single speaker is much better than I thought it would be and more than suitable for phone calls, podcasts or talking heads videos. Haven't missed the ultra wide camera even once. Battery is fine, performance is excellent.

Yeah I love mine. I came from the 15 pro max, never used pro raw photos, used the 5x zoom once in a year, never used Log video, never edited my photos. I'm a point and shoot person. I think it's also very important when buying a phone to consider your other devices.

Only reason why I pulled the trigger to upgrade this year after 3 years was the air.

The price is the problem if apple priced it around 17 base then it would sold out by now.

This is the exact same scenario when the MacBook Air was released. Last time I checked the MacBook Air is still on Apple's site.

I completely agree with you. If Apple is able to improve the camera, sound and battery life, I'm pretty sure the Air will become Apple's flagship device for iPhone.

I absolutely love the iPhone Air, unfortunately its current form is not a great fit for my lifestyle. There's too many small compromises that simply make it unviable for my use case. Specially in the battery side of things, followed by the single camera.

Sad, I love my Air. No case, so light, lovely to hold for extended periods. I'd hate to go back to a chonk phone. I don't have complex camera needs, find the mono speaker fine in a pinch when without AirPods, and am rarely without a charging source.

When iPhone Air came out, iPhone Air 2 was probably already being worked on. If it really keeps performing bad on sales, it will probably have the same destiny as the Mini: Two generations and then, killed. I'm on my way to AGAIN become an iPhone model orphan.

I love the air, it's my favorite iphone for sure. I don't give a shit about taking pictures and I don't use social media outside of Reddit, so the battery is a non issue for me. Wanted something light with a larger screen and this is perfect.

Swapped my air for a pro. The battery is one thing, but what really killed me was: no fast charging, the torch is weaker and less controllable, the speakers were terrible, and the base camera was worse than the main pro camera.

The worst things are the CAMERA AND THE MICROPHONE, for me. It has been a month now, and the only negatives are the microphone and the camera. Forget the battery, the speaker etc. Love how it feels and it definitely ruined the feel of other phones!