{"id":142752,"date":"2025-09-22T21:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ifixit-tears-down-the-iphone-air-finds-that-its-mostly-battery\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T21:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:25:18","slug":"ifixit-tears-down-the-iphone-air-finds-that-its-mostly-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ifixit-tears-down-the-iphone-air-finds-that-its-mostly-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"iFixit tears down the iPhone Air, finds that it\u2019s mostly battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As is now a long-standing custom, iFixit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/News\/113171\/iphone-air-teardown\">performed<\/a> a full teardown of the latest iPhone\u2014this time, the newly launched iPhone Air. These teardowns got pretty routine for a while, as Apple settled into a fairly consistent design for iPhones, but the new design of the iPhone Air offered an opportunity for compelling observations.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the important components\u2014including the entire logic board\u2014are clustered up at the top of the phone, while the majority of its middle and body house a battery.<\/p>\n<p>iFixit found that this battery is identical to the one included in Apple&#8217;s iPhone Air MagSafe battery pack\u2014you can even swap the batteries between the pack and the phone with no problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/09\/iphone-air-teardown-reveals-a-phone-thats-more-durable-repairable-than-expected\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/09\/iphone-air-teardown-reveals-a-phone-thats-more-durable-repairable-than-expected\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is now a long-standing custom, iFixit performed a full teardown of the latest iPhone\u2014this time, the newly launched iPhone Air. 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