Apple just announced the iPhone Air at its “Awe Dropping” event. At just 5.6 millimeters thick, the iPhone Air is officially Apple’s thinnest iPhone ever, even slimmer than the company’s ultra-thin M4 iPad Pro. It has 3 times the scratch resistance as the previous glass Apple would use for iPhones, and is made out of recycled titanium. It comes in black, white, gold, and blue. The inside was precision-milled to make room for all of the necessary chips and sensors.
The iPhone Air is powered by the A19 Pro chip, which Apple says is the fastest CPU in any smartphone. It’s also highly energy efficient compared to the A19 chip that powers the iPhone 17. A new 5-core GPU most notably helps power AI thanks to neural accelerators into each GPU core. Apple calls it MacBook Pro levels of compute,