Three-Month Review of iPhone Air: Decent Battery Life, Gamers Advised to Look Elsewhere
Three-Month Review of iPhone Air: Decent Battery Life, Gamers Advised to Look Elsewhere
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Publish Date: 2026-04-09 00:22:00
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In September 2025, the iPhone Air, regarded by the market as the “most failed iPhone,” was released. However, just like the iPhone XR back then, as long as the price is right, even an iPhone with poor configuration has the potential to become a hit. In January 2026, channels including the Apple Tmall flagship store offered a discount of “a direct reduction of 2,000 yuan” on the iPhone Air, successfully “reviving” its already low sales volume.
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Even Xiaolei took advantage of the discount and replaced his old iPhone with an iPhone Air. So, two and a half months later, has my evaluation of the iPhone Air changed?
The battery is not the price for thinness, and the battery life is comparable to that of the iPhone 16 Pro
Perhaps due to the “pioneering” of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, people seem to have little confidence in the battery life of thin and light phones like the iPhone Air. It’s true that the 3149mAh battery capacity of the iPhone Air is not large by any modern standard.
Interestingly, in my daily usage model, the overall battery life of the iPhone Air is not significantly different from that of the iPhone 16 Pro and 15 Plus I used before: When I go out with a full – charged phone, play half an hour of Arcade games at noon, play some videos while cooking in the evening, and with sporadic MagSafe charging time in the afternoon, the iPhone Air usually has about 50% of the battery left when I get home from work.
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Even if I forget to charge the phone before going to bed at night, I can charge the iPhone Air to a reassuring level of battery in extremely fragmented time just by using the MagSafe chargers in the car and at the workstation. If you are using a non – Plus or Max iPhone model, I don’t think the battery life of the iPhone Air is something you need to worry about the most.
Of course, for the common scenario of forgetting to charge the phone before going to bed, domestic Android phones have…
