Austin Evans leaves iPhone Air over the camera, not the feel

His switch to the iPhone 18 Pro comes with a condition: give the Air Pro cameras, and he would return.

Channel: Austin Evans Story of November 1, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 195,135 views a day, 6.1 times a normal first day on this channel (31,778).

Goodbye iPhone Air 👋

Austin Evans calls the iPhone Air "the nicest-feeling phone I've ever used." He's giving it up anyway.

The problem isn't the battery, speakers or screen size, all of which he praises in his farewell Short. It's what happens when he needs to film. After a year with the Air, Evans says its camera limitations have often left him carrying an extra camera, undermining the appeal of traveling light.

His replacement is the iPhone 18 Pro, whose ultrawide, telephoto and ProRes capabilities make it the more practical choice for his work. This isn't a goodbye built around a phone falling apart or becoming unbearable. It's a reviewer reluctantly choosing the tool that does more over the object he prefers holding.

The Short has drawn about 132,000 views in twelve hours, already more than four times the channel's usual full-day audience for that format. Among the gadget-focused comments, viewers discuss the Air's lightness and whether its camera compromises matter as much for everyday use as they do for a creator.

Evans leaves little doubt about which design he would rather use: "Man, if they could ever make an iPhone Air with the Pro camera, I would be back in a heartbeat." For now, he describes his replacement as "the world's most boringly competent phone."

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The numbers

The farewell Short has already passed Austin Evans's usual first-day Shorts audience, with only twelve hours online.

the video's first day

usual first day here

31,778

this video

195,135

subscribers

5,860,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,775,273,890

views per day

446,957

typical day: 744,586

the video

views

132,206

likes

5,130

comments

161

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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7,660,000

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7,060,000

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6,600,000

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6,250,000

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5,860,000

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4,740,000

As of November 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.