{"id":247323,"date":"2025-09-22T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/247323\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:17:10","slug":"ifixit-tears-down-the-iphone-air-finds-that-its-mostly-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/247323\/","title":{"rendered":"iFixit tears down the iPhone Air, finds that it\u2019s mostly battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As is now a long-standing custom, iFixit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/News\/113171\/iphone-air-teardown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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>Having the battery occupy roughly two-thirds of the device also helps mitigate the problems we saw with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.fandom.com\/wiki\/Bendgate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bendgate<\/a>&#8221; in earlier, thin iPhones a few years ago. Bendgate occurred in part because the logic board was getting damaged under pressure in the middle of the device. Now, the logic board is just at the top, where a bend is less likely to occur, and the battery is more resilient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As is now a long-standing custom, iFixit performed a full teardown of the latest iPhone\u2014this time, the newly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":247324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-247323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115250268930928147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}