iFixit Teardown Reveals How Apple Made the iPhone Air So Thin

Repair tract iFixit contiguous did 1 of its accepted teardowns on the iPhone Air, which is Apple's thinnest iPhone to day and the archetypal large redesign we've seen successful the ‌iPhone‌ enactment successful respective years.


To acceptable each of the indispensable components successful a 5.6mm frame, Apple designed a camera "plateau." The iPhone Air's logic committee is partially wrong of the camera bump, providing abstraction for a large, metal-encased battery. The presumption of the logic committee besides ensures that it's protected from bending accent if the ‌iPhone Air‌ happens to flex, though we've seen successful respective tests that the titanium framework of the instrumentality is astir bend-proof.

iFixit tried bending the ‌iPhone Air‌ framework without immoderate of the components inside, and it wasn't rather arsenic durable arsenic it is erstwhile it's afloat packed. The framework easy bent, due to the fact that determination are anemic points wherever Apple had to adhd integrative gaps to forestall cellular interference. As to whether the anemic points volition beryllium an contented for ‌iPhone Air‌ owners, iFixit says "time volition tell."


Earlier this week, iFixit took isolated MagSafe Battery that Apple designed for the ‌iPhone Air‌, and speculated that Apple was utilizing the aforesaid artillery for the accessory that it utilized successful the ‌iPhone Air‌. That's present confirmed, and Apple did so see an ‌iPhone Air‌ artillery wrong the MagSafe Battery pack. The artillery has a 12.26 watt-hour capacity, and you tin instrumentality the artillery retired of the ‌MagSafe‌ Battery battalion and enactment it successful an ‌iPhone Air‌ with nary issue.

Though the ‌iPhone Air‌ has a thinner plan than usual, it's easier to repair than you mightiness think. There isn't country for layers of components, and iFixit says that the bladed chassis keeps parts from getting buried. Apple is utilizing a clipped-in show and backmost glass, with nary adhesive successful sight. Where adhesive is required, specified arsenic for the battery, Apple is utilizing adhesive that tin beryllium loosened with low-voltage electrical current. It's a plan that Apple introduced past twelvemonth with the iPhone 16, and present it's expanded to different models.


Apple 3D printed the USB-C larboard for the ‌iPhone Air‌ to get it to acceptable successful the chassis, and iFixit recovered that the institution is so utilizing a 3D printed titanium alloy that's not arsenic scratch resistant arsenic the frame, but is "structurally robust." The USB-C larboard is glued successful place, but it is modular and tin beryllium removed if needed.

The ‌iPhone Air‌ logic committee includes the C1X 5G modem, the N1 networking chip, and the A19 Pro, each of which Apple designed. The ‌iPhone Air‌ is the archetypal ‌iPhone‌ to person truthful galore custom-designed Apple chips. The different iPhone 17 models besides person the A19 and the N1, but the ‌iPhone Air‌ besides gets the C1X alternatively of a Qualcomm modem.

Overall, iFixit gave the ‌iPhone Air‌ a provisional repairability people of 7 retired of 10, due to the fact that it's easier to get to the artillery and not excessively hard to regenerate a screen. Apple has besides made efforts to merchandise spare parts and manuals for ‌iPhone‌ repair, and has scaled down bundle locks and restrictions connected parts pairing, improving its ‌iPhone‌ repairability scores.

Make definite to ticker iFixit's afloat video to spot the ‌iPhone Air‌ disassembled portion by piece.


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