iPhone Air

Contexto histórico

The iPhone Air was announced alongside the lower-priced iPhone 17 and the higher-priced iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max during the Apple Event at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on September 9, 2025. The iPhone Air replaces the Plus series in the iPhone line-up, with a rebranded option focused on lightweight design and enhanced features. With a depth of 5.6 mm (0.22 in), it is the thinnest iPhone ever made, surpassing the 6.9 mm (0.27 in) thick iPhone 6; this excludes the top of the phone with a depth of 11.3 mm (0.44 in). The front glass uses Ceramic Shield 2 with a new Apple-designed anti-reflective coating. The back is protected by Ceramic Shield, and has an elevated section housing the cameras, speaker, and logic board. The iPhone Air is available in four colors: Sky Blue, Light Gold, Cloud White, and Space Black. The iPhone Air features the A19 Pro system-on-chip (SoC) with a 6-core CPU, 5-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. It uses the new Apple-designed C1X modem and N1 networking chips, part of a trend by Apple to reduce reliance on third-party chip suppliers. The N1 chip includes Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread. The iPhone Air features a 48 MP Fusion camera system with a single lens. The front of the device features an 18 MP Center Stage camera. The front camera has the first square sensor on an iPhone, which enables expanding the field of view or rotating from portrait to landscape orientation for group shots, independent of the device orientation. All iPhone Air units support eSIM, and are sold without physical SIM card support worldwide. Starting with all iPhone 17 models and the iPhone Air, devices based on the A19 and A19 Pro include Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE). MIE is an always-on, hardware-and-OS, memory-safety defense that uses Apple's secure memory allocators, Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension (EMTE) in synchronous mode, and Tag Confidentiality Enforcement policies. The iPhone Air has a starting price of $999 U.S. Pre-orders began on September 12, 2025, and sales started on September 19.