Does the iPhone Air really have all-day battery life? Our test results are in
heres how it compares
Date:
Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:16:35 +0000
Description:
Weve iPhone Airs battery life in a variety of situations to see how it compares to its rivals.
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put the iPhone Airs battery life to the test It performs surprisingly well in some tasks, given its super-slim chassis It lags behind Apples other iPhones, though
The iPhone Air is here, and theres one thing everyone wants to know about Apples super-slim phone: is the battery life any good? Because when you see a device as slimline as this, youve got to wonder if it can last throughout the day.
Well, weve put Apples svelte phone to the test to see how well its battery holds up in a variety of situations, and weve been pleasantly surprised by
how it fared. Apple has claimed youll get all-day battery life from the
iPhone Air, and in some cases that absolutely holds up although it really depends on what youre doing.
Take our web browsing test, for example. For this, we use a proprietary app that cycles through a series of 22 websites until the battery completely drains. We set the display to 150 nits of brightness and disable dynamic brightness, adaptive battery options, attention awareness features, location services and Bluetooth, and also sign out of iCloud .
In this test, the iPhone Air lasted for 12 hours and 2 minutes. Thats only 45 minutes behind the iPho ne 17 , but you might struggle to call it all-day battery life" in this scenario. Its also easily outclassed by the iPhone 17 Pro Max , but it still outperforms the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge , as you can see in our chart below.
The iPhone Air did much better in our video-streaming test. Here, we streamed a nature video for five hours and noted the devices battery life percentage
at the end:
As you can see, the iPhone Air came out with 81% battery life, just behind
the iPhone 17 Pro Maxs 88%, but well ahead of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edges 67%.
Extrapolating from these results, we can estimate that youll get 26 hours and 19 minutes of juice while streaming video on the iPhone Air, which exceeds Apples own estimation of 22 hours. Thats pretty impressive. How it compares (Image credit: Future/Jacob Krol)
The amount of life youll get out of a single charge varies based on what
youre using the iPhone Air for, but its clear that some tasks (like video streaming) justify Apples all-day battery life claim. It wont last as long if you primarily spend your day browsing the web, though, so make sure you
manage your expectations there.
Still, squeezing so much battery out of such a thin product is a notable achievement for Apple. If youre after a slim and light smartphone that still offers respectable battery life, the iPhone Air might be a better option than Samsungs Galaxy S25 Edge, at least according to our testing. You might also like I couldnt decide between the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air, so I bought both which one should I keep? I'm not ashamed to love the iPhone Air I tried the iPhone Air, and it's so exciting I might ditch my iPhone Pro Max
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https://www.techradar.com/phones/does-the-iphone-air-really-have-all-day-batte ry-life-our-test-results-are-in-heres-how-it-compares
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