iPhone Air MagSafe Battery Pack Uses Same Battery as iPhone Air

iFixit today took apart the iPhone Air MagSafe Battery pack, an accessory designed to work exclusively with the ‌iPhone Air‌, and discovered something interesting.


The battery inside the accessory has an unusual shape, leading iFixit to conclude that it's possible that Apple is using the same battery for the ‌iPhone Air‌ and the ‌iPhone Air‌ ‌MagSafe‌ Battery.

iFixit compared the battery in the ‌MagSafe‌ Battery pack to the ‌iPhone Air‌ battery that Apple showed off when introducing the new device, and it does appear to be a close match if not identical.

The battery has a 12.26Wh capacity, and it is 2.72mm thick, which means it is thin enough to fit inside the 5.6mm ‌iPhone Air‌.

The ‌iPhone Air‌ ‌MagSafe‌ Battery pack is only able to charge an ‌iPhone Air‌ to 65 percent even though it appears Apple is using the same exact battery that's in the iPhone, but that's due to energy transfer loss during wireless charging.

The ‌iPhone Air‌ ‌MagSafe‌ Battery is thicker than the ‌iPhone Air‌, and iFixit speculates that the size was the minimum needed to make it a viable product. The battery inside is protected with plastic and it does not have the same titanium frame as the ‌iPhone Air‌.

Tag: iFixit

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Top Rated Comments

AnotherOpinion Avatar
20 weeks ago
This is hilarious… like… let's make the battery half as thick and charge extra, and call it the thinest iPhone ever…
Score: 29 Votes (Like | Disagree)
oneMadRssn Avatar
20 weeks ago

If anyone buys this battery back, why didn't you just a slightly thicker phone?, because with this thing attached it's fatter than a pro phone ?

The Air has way too many compromises.
If 9 out 10 of days, the iPhone Air built-in battery is enough, then you only need to use the battery pack 1 out of 10 days. And even in that 1 day, you'd only have the battery pack attached for about an hour (the time it would take to empty the battery pack at 12w). So all in all, in a given 10-day period, you'd only have a thick iPhone Air + battery pack phone less than 1% of the time, and the 99% of the time you'd just have an thinner phone.

I'm not getting the Air, but it's for camera reasons. The battery is a total non-issue.
Score: 26 Votes (Like | Disagree)
F23 Avatar
20 weeks ago
Tim Cooks us again
Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)
chrisone Avatar
20 weeks ago

This is hilarious… like… let's make the battery half as thick and charge extra, and call it the thinest iPhone ever…
And sell the other half of the battery as an extra battery pack…!
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
neuropsychguy Avatar
20 weeks ago

This is hilarious… like… let's make the battery half as thick and charge extra, and call it the thinest iPhone ever…
Half as thick as what? Charging extra compared to what? Also, is it not the thinnest iPhone ever?

Don't the battery life tests posted here on MacRumors show the Air has similar battery life to the thicker iPhone 17? I'm not sure what your comment is about.
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
oneMadRssn Avatar
20 weeks ago

The iPhone Air MagSafe Battery pack is only able to charge an iPhone Air to 65 percent even though it appears Apple is using the same exact battery that's in the iPhone, but that's due to energy transfer loss during wireless charging.
And this is a perfect real-world example of why wireless charging stinks. 65% efficiency in electric energy transfer is abysmal.
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)