{"id":232529,"date":"2026-04-08T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/apple-will-grit-its-teeth-and-push-through-with-iphone-air-2-and-its-successor-claims-a-source-as-it-pours-cold-water-over-iphone-18-plus\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:55:10","slug":"apple-will-grit-its-teeth-and-push-through-with-iphone-air-2-and-its-successor-claims-a-source-as-it-pours-cold-water-over-iphone-18-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/apple-will-grit-its-teeth-and-push-through-with-iphone-air-2-and-its-successor-claims-a-source-as-it-pours-cold-water-over-iphone-18-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Apple Will Grit Its Teeth&#8221; And Push Through With iPhone Air 2 And Its Successor, Claims A Source As It Pours Cold Water Over iPhone 18 Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/apple-will-grit-its-teeth-and-push-through-with-iphone-air-2-and-its-successor-claims-a-source-as-it-pours-cold-water-over-iphone-18-plus\/\">&#8220;Apple Will Grit Its Teeth&#8221; And Push Through With iPhone Air 2 And Its Successor, Claims A Source As It Pours Cold Water Over iPhone 18 Plus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/apple-will-grit-its-teeth-and-push-through-with-iphone-air-2-and-its-successor-claims-a-source-as-it-pours-cold-water-over-iphone-18-plus\/\">https:\/\/wccftech.com\/apple-will-grit-its-teeth-and-push-through-with-iphone-air-2-and-its-successor-claims-a-source-as-it-pours-cold-water-over-iphone-18-plus\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-08 11:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wccftech.com\">wccftech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"info\">\n<li>0-20%: Unlikely &#8211; Lacks credible sources<\/li>\n<li>21-40%: Questionable &#8211; Some concerns remain<\/li>\n<li>41-60%: Plausible &#8211; Reasonable evidence<\/li>\n<li>61-80%: Probable &#8211; Strong evidence<\/li>\n<li>81-100%: Highly Likely &#8211; Multiple reliable sources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By now, it has been largely established that the iPhone Air is the weakest link among the recently released iPhones, even if Apple&#8217;s ultra-slim offering has managed to outsell the iPhone 16 Plus and Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, as per speedtest samples from Ookla.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, an established Weibo-based tipster believes Apple will still release the iPhone Air 2 and 3, pouring cold water over the prospects of the iPhone 18 Plus, which was expected to replace the iPhone Air 2 in the event Apple did end up canceling its ultra-slim iPhone lineup.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-apple-to-push-through-with-iphone-air-2-and-iphone-air-3-dimming-the-prospects-of-a-plus-variant\">Apple to push through with iPhone Air 2 and iPhone Air 3, dimming the prospects of a &#8216;Plus&#8217; variant<\/h2>\n<p>Fixed Focus Digital has detailed in a Weibo post that the iPhone Air 2 and 3 are still coming (machine translated):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Air 2 will continue to be iterated as usual. No matter how badly it sells, Apple will grit his teeth and make two generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This aligns with a JP Morgan research note back in November 2025, where the Wall Street titan had penciled in the iPhone Air 2 for 2026 and the iPhone Air 3 for 2027, going against the prevailing chorus that had begun to discount a discontinuation of this new form factor at the time. Of course, we now know that the iPhone Air 2 will likely debut alongside the base iPhone 18 and the iPhone 18e in the spring of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>For the benefit of those who might not be aware, the iPhone Air has a battery capacity that is\u00a0just\u00a062 percent\u00a0of the iPhone 17 Pro Max&#8217;s, and around 11 percent below even that of the base iPhone 17. This means that Apple&#8217;s ultra-slim iPhone can last just\u00a0around 12 hours\u00a0in real-world settings, which is hardly something to boast of, and becomes a debilitating shortcoming for power&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/apple-will-grit-its-teeth-and-push-through-with-iphone-air-2-and-its-successor-claims-a-source-as-it-pours-cold-water-over-iphone-18-plus\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Apple Will Grit Its Teeth&#8221; And Push Through With iPhone Air 2 And Its Successor,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.wccftech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/iPhone-Air-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[124,80,81],"class_list":["post-232529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-16","tag-iphone-17","tag-iphone-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232531,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232529\/revisions\/232531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}