iPhone screen sizes
iPhone Air screen size
The iPhone Air has a 6.5-inch screen that apps lay out in 420 × 912 points. At @3x that is 1260 × 2736 pixels, at 460 pixels per inch.
Checked against Apple's pages on 27 October 2026.
| Points | 420 × 912 pt |
|---|---|
| Pixels | 1260 × 2736 px |
| Scale | @3x |
| Pixel density | 460 ppi |
| Display | 6.5 inches (6.55 inches as a rectangle) |
| Top of the screen | Dynamic Island |
| Safe area | 68 pt top, 34 pt bottom in Borel's preview (Apple publishes no numbers) |
| Screen corner | 62 pt in Borel's preview (Apple publishes no number) |
| App Store screenshot | 1260 × 2736 px, iPhone with Dynamic Island (large display) |
| Released | 2025 |
| Same screen | No other model |
How the iPhone Air compares
The iPhone Air sits between the two Pro sizes: at 420 × 912 points it is 18 points wider and 38 points taller than the iPhone 17 Pro, and 20 points narrower and 44 points shorter than the 17 Pro Max. Its 6.5-inch panel is 2736 × 1260 pixels at 460 ppi.
No other iPhone has this width, which makes it the one most likely to show a layout that was only checked at 402 and 440 points.
What designers need to know
- Test anything with a fixed width here. Three 128 point cards with 8 point gaps and 16 point margins need 432 points: they fit the 440 point Pro Max and are 12 points too wide for this screen.
- Borel's preview gives it a deeper top safe area (68 points) than the 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch Pro models (62 points).
- Its screenshots, 1260 × 2736, are accepted in Apple's large Dynamic Island group.
App Store screenshots
Apple puts the iPhone Air in its iPhone with Dynamic Island (large display) group, which takes 1260 × 2736, 1290 × 2796, 1320 × 2868 pixels in portrait. This group is optional: App Store Connect fills it with scaled copies of another group's screenshots when you skip it.
Build for this screen with Borel
Borel writes iPhone apps in Swift with SwiftUI, whose layouts follow the safe area of whichever iPhone they run on, so one app fits this screen and every other here. You try it in Apple's iOS Simulator in your browser, with no Mac needed.
Frequently asked questions
420 by 912 points at @3x, per Apple's Human Interface Guidelines: 1260 by 2736 pixels on a 6.5-inch display.
Yes. The iPhone 17 is 402 by 874 points on a 6.3-inch display; the Air is 420 by 912 points on a 6.5-inch one.
1260 by 2736 pixels in portrait, in Apple's iPhone with Dynamic Island (large display) group.
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