I'm not joking: the iPhone Air is the best-value phone purchase you can make this Prime Day for two very different reasons

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Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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If its on sale, there are two big reasons why the iPhone Air is the
best-value phone purchase you can make this Prime Day.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Full disclosure: I am writing this before Amazon Prime Day . If the iPhone Air is not currently on sale in your region, then you should only pay its $999 / 999 / AU$1,799 asking price if a) you have a bottomless supply of cash or b) you simply must own Apple s most beautiful iPhone (and make no mistake: the iPhone Air is Apples most beautiful iPhone).

But I will eat my hat if there aren't any meaningful deals on the iPhone Air by the time you read this. It's already been discounted by as much as 30% in both the UK and Australia this year, and as such, I have a hunch that Amazon will run similar deals during its annual Prime Day sale (if youre in the US, look out for carrier-based offers on Apples best iPhones ). Browse the full Amazon Prime Day sale Latest Videos From Watch full video here:

If you can snag the iPhone Air for around 20% less than its retail price this week, Im utterly convinced that its the best-value phone purchase you could make right now for two reasons. Today's best unlocked iPhone Air deals 999 719 View Prime Day 799 View 1,149 View Show more We check over 250 million products every day for the best prices Firstly, you will not find a nicer-looking and nicer-feeling phone than the iPhone Air without spending silly money on one of the best foldable phones . The Air measures just 5.64mm at its thinnest point and is some 41g lighter than the iPhone 17 Pro, despite boasting a larger 6.5-inch display. You may like The iPhone Air for 699 might be the best iPhone deal Ive ever seen The real winner of WWDC 2026 was the iPhone Air heres why iPhone 17 Pro vs iPhone Air: which should you buy?

You might not think you care about having a thin and light phone I also
didnt to begin with but trust me: once you start using a device of such svelte proportions, you wont want to go back to a regular-sized phone.

Dont believe me? Heres a recent picture of me with a group of tech content creators showing off our current phones of choice: Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. I promise you this picture wasn't sponsored by Apple (Image credit: Future) All four of us test the best phones for a living, and all four of us settled on Apple's super slim iPhone as our personal handset of choice.

The second reason why a discounted iPhone Air is the best-value phone
purchase you can make right now is less obvious. Not only is this Apples most beautiful iPhone, but its also its most powerful: like the iPhone 17 Pro ,
the Air boasts an A19 Pro chipset and 12GB of RAM.

Now, I dont usually highlight chipsets as a reason to buy phones the iPhone 17e s A19 chipset, for instance, is plenty fast enough for most people but the iPhone Air's A19 Pro chipset and 12GB of RAM combination has suddenly become more significant than most people realize. What to read next iPhone 17 vs iPhone Air: which should you buy? The Honor Magic 8 Pro Air proves thin phones aren't just a gimmick Can we please talk about the iPhone Air's controversial Light Gold color?

Here's an extract from a recent article in which I explain why the iPhone Air is future-proofed in a way that only the iPhone 17 Pro can match : At WWDC 2026, Apple announced its all-singing, all-dancing Siri AI assistant, which will soon be available on all Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhones (read:
the iPhone 15 Pro and upwards) as part of iOS 27. But only three iPhones will get the very best version of Siri AI and the iPhone Air is among that
number.

Specifically, only the iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air will get Siri voice customization and more advanced systemwide dictation, because only these phones run on Apples AFM Core Advanced model and 12GB of RAM. The device requirements of AFM Core Advanced (Image credit: Apple) Admittedly, these two features arent reason enough to buy a top-end iPhone the former gives you the ability to customize the expressiveness and pace of Siris
voice, while the latter makes Siri more effective at converting speech into accurate text but I would bet my (non-existent) house that Apple locks several additional, more significant features behind this AFM Core Advanced paywall in future versions of iOS.

In other words, like the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, the iPhone Air will soon support more software features than any other iPhone and the gap between model capabilities will only grow wider as more hardware-exclusive features are announced. I genuinely believe this under-the-radar feature makes the iPhone Air almost worth its regular $999 / 999 / AU$1,799 asking price, but
if you can pick it up for significantly cheaper than that during Prime Day, its a bona fide bargain. Today's best iPhone Air deals Contract Deals Sim
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