Meet Apple’s thinnest iPhone ever! Usually, when things get smaller, they get harder to take apart. But we’ve been surprised already this year:
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge kept some repair-friendly features in an ultra-thin package.
Here’s the crazy thing, and this phone proves it: Thinner can actually be more repairable. We don’t like having to dig through layers of components for basic repairs.
We broke out all the toys for this teardown: We’ve got CT scans and microscope shots and even some brand new tools.
Let’s see how clever Apple is.
Chapters
00:00 iPhone Air - Thin doesn’t have to mean unrepairable
00:37 Teardown begins - lets take a peek inside the iPhone Air
01:07 A repositioned logic board - no Bendgate 2.0?
01:46 iFixit teams up with JerryRigEverything
02:21 A second look at the iPhone Air battery
03:40 A mystery and a subtle secret in the lower assembly
05:59 Main camera removal saga or “this is why repair manuals are important”
08:05 Splitting an Apple sandwich: the C1X and N1 wireless chips
08:40 Removing the iPhone Airs screen, JerryRigEverything style
08:59 Hidden weak points: Titanium is strong, plastic? Not so much
09:39 What makes an iPhone Air?
10:42 iFixit’s iPhone Air repairability score
11:15 Join us for more gadget guts and geekery
