iPhone Air Sales Are So Bad That Apple's Delaying the Next-Generation Version

The thin, airy iPhone Air sold truthful poorly that Apple has decided to hold the motorboat of the next-generation ‌iPhone Air‌ that was scheduled to travel retired alongside the iPhone 18 Pro, reports The Information.


Apple initially planned to merchandise a caller ‌iPhone Air‌ successful autumn 2026, but present that's not going to happen.

Since the ‌iPhone Air‌ launched successful September, determination person been reports of poor income and manufacturing cuts. Apple's proviso concatenation has scaled backmost shipments and production. Apple supplier Foxconn has reportedly dismantled each but 1 and a fractional of its accumulation lines for the ‌iPhone Air‌, and each accumulation is expected to beryllium stopped astatine the extremity of the month. Luxshare, different supplier, stopped accumulation astatine the extremity of October.

Apple was counting connected the caller look of the instrumentality to spark interest, due to the fact that it features the archetypal important plan update that we've seen to the iPhone lineup since the ‌iPhone‌ X added Face ID and an all-display plan successful 2017. Creating a ace bladed 5.6mm ‌iPhone‌ required compromises, truthful the ‌iPhone Air‌ has a smaller artillery and a single-lens rear camera, but it inactive has a precocious terms tag. Apple priced it starting astatine $999, and that appears to beryllium much than customers are consenting to wage for benignant without substance. The ‌iPhone Air‌ is lone $100 cheaper than the $1,099 iPhone 17 Pro, which has a triple-lens rear camera and overmuch amended artillery life.

Apple has not been capable to onshore connected a 4th ‌iPhone‌ that volition merchantability good alongside the modular ‌iPhone‌ and Pro ‌iPhone‌ models. Apple experimented with a smaller 5.4-inch ‌iPhone‌ mini that suffered from disappointing sales, past moved connected to the larger "Plus" ‌iPhone‌ that served arsenic a much affordable mentation of the Pro Max. Plus models besides failed, starring to the ‌iPhone Air‌.

Apple has already been readying for a divided motorboat for the ‌iPhone‌ starting with the ‌iPhone 18‌ models. The ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro, ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro Max, and foldable ‌iPhone‌ are planned for autumn 2026, portion the ‌iPhone 18‌ and ‌iPhone‌ 18e volition beryllium held until aboriginal 2027. It's imaginable that the next-generation ‌iPhone Air‌ volition travel retired alongside the ‌iPhone 18‌ successful the spring.

Apple has been moving connected a second-generation mentation of the ‌iPhone Air‌ with a lighter weight, vapor enclosure cooling, and a larger artillery capacity, but Apple could rethink the design.
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