- We have laid the lifespan of the iPhone Air to the test
- It works surprisingly well in certain tasks, given its super vintage chassis
- It is late on other Apple iPhones, however
The iPhone air is there, and there is one thing that everyone wants to know about Apple’s super slim phone: is the battery life good? Because when you see a device as thin as this one, you should ask yourself if it can last throughout the day.
Well, we put Apple’s Svelte phone to the test to see how well its battery is well in a variety of situations, and we were pleasantly surprised by the way it behaved. Apple said that you will get a “all day” battery life from the iPhone air, and in some cases that will absolutely hold – although it really depends on what you do.
Do our web browsing test, for example. To do this, we use an owner application that passes through a series of 22 websites until the battery flows completely. We define the display on 150 brightness nits and deactivate dynamic brightness, adaptive battery options, attention awareness features, location and Bluetooth services, and we also emines in iCloud.
In this test, the iPhone air lasted 12 hours and 2 minutes. It’s only 45 minutes behind the iPhone 17, but you might find it difficult to call it “a day’s battery life” in this scenario. It is also easily outclassed by the iPhone 17 Pro Max, but it always surpasses the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, as you can see in our graph below.
The iPhone air has done much better in our video broadcasting test. Here, we broadcast a video of nature for five hours and noted the percentage of life of the device from the device at the end:
As you can see, the iPhone Air came out with an autonomy of 81%, just behind the 88% of the iPhone 17 Pro Max, but ahead of the 67% of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge.
Extrapolating from these results, we can estimate that you will get 26 hours and 19 minutes of juice while broadcasting a video on the air of the iPhone, which exceeds the own Apple estimate of 22 hours. It’s quite impressive.
How is it compared
The number of lives you will get a single load varies depending on what you use iPhone air, but it is clear that certain tasks (such as video streaming) justify the claim of “battery life all day”. It will not last so long if you mainly spend your day traveling the web, so be sure to manage your expectations there.
However, the removal of so much battery from such a thin product is a notable realization for Apple. If you are looking for a slim and light smartphone that always offers a respectable battery life, iPhone air could be a better option than the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, at least according to our tests.
