A questionable report claiming that Apple had dropped plans for a 2026 iPhone Air update have been partially walked back, just as we predicted.

Maybe there is a little bit of we-told-you-so, but really this yet another lesson in taking one piece of information and making the wrong molehill out of it. On November 10, 2025, The Information reported that multiple sources said Apple had removed the iPhone Air from the 2026 schedule.

Now the publication has found other multiple sources, who are apparently saying the delay is nothing to do with sales. Instead, it is to give time for redesign that would see the next iPhone Air add a second rear camera — which has previously been rumored.

That's the chief extent of the new report. There is also a claim that Apple engineers hope to get a second generation iPhone Air out by spring 2027.

Plus there's a touch of drama in the partial-recant, as some of these various multiple sources say the redesign might not be finished in time.

We don't think The Information fabricated the report. What we think is that they conflated data about a redesign with more features, with sketchy supply chain reports of the iPhone Air not existing in the same form in a future release.

Where this all comes from

The original report included alongside claims that manufacturer Foxconn was scrapping its production line for the current iPhone Air because of weak demand. Luxshare, another iPhone Air assembler, allegedly ceased production in October.

All of this was possible, and while there are easy reasons to dispute stories of poor sales for the iPhone Air, there have been many such reports. Except The Information's timeline didn't seem quite right, and then its detailed leaks were clearly wrong.

That was especially obvious in a claim that the second generation iPhone Air would be lighter than the first while adding the relatively dense vapor chamber cooling and a bigger battery. Physics are remorseless, and it should have been clear to the authors that this part of the claims they were hearing were problematic.

So possible reports of a change in production became an impossible wish list for an iPhone Air.