not yet for iphone rite?

Haven't try it yet, some of the website mentioned march 26 onwards

Here another link from different media
https://soyacincau.com/2026/03/26/whatsapp-...l2feuKZwlg7PLXg

https://www.pcmag.com/news/whatsapp-finally...i-draft-replies

https://www.lowyat.net/2026/387548/whatsapp...-chat-transfer/

This post has been edited by GamersFamilia: Mar 27 2026, 02:28 PM

My iPhone no longer has Physical sim, haha

Just reload and now Yes showing "yes 5g advanced"
Later need subscribed plan and see got changes or not

Yesterday morning only update 26.4

This morning 07:50am unplug 100% and now 98% where i idle my phone only just now, hmm

Hope it just (still) doing indexing

95 cycles so far 100% BH

This post has been edited by TongCN: Mar 27 2026, 09:40 AM

At least let the phone doing indexing around 12 to 24 hours, then can evaluate if the new ios cause drain the battery or not 😆

But stil... iphone 16pm signal is really bad , i forgot to mention besides Alipay & DiDi on the last china trip , most of the restaurant in china request to scan QR for the food order , iphone 16pm fail few time to load or taken longer time to load , then on last few day we went to Jiu Zai Gou , my wife want to order luckin coffe and her iphone also fail to load , keep endless pusing , end up guna android phone only able to load. Then wechat sometime will miss notification , need to click in Wechat only receive notification , that quite painful.

This post has been edited by chongkiatz: Mar 31 2026, 03:25 PM

Last year I was using 16PM in China, no such issue. In fact, I was the one paying for everything and checking maps etc.

I may go again in June, this time with 17PM, let's see.

Been using iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 13 in China few times and no issue (Beside i forgot to off iCloud backup and eat up my quota - meaning data signal running good)

Mind share which roaming pack you using - physical sim or eSim ?

that is your telco signal issue. i tried no problem payment using ip16 at china

It doesnt happen daily , or outdoor payment , mostly when u entering some mall underground , indoor or underground restaurant.


eSim from trip.com , even china people ownself also say that Apple signal reception is bad on their country & also wechat delay notification , other than that it got no problem , they say huawei phone have the most strong signal reception in their country which i believe because 5g is under huawei for sure good loh I do google abit on reddit and found out other people also had the same issues , not a big deal because i'm not staying in china 365 day

This post has been edited by chongkiatz: Apr 1 2026, 09:46 AM

ios26.4.1 will be available soon

So soon? Feels like we are beta testers for iOS already

lots of update definitely better , bug fixed and security purpose 😈

I'm on family sharing, and I am the organizer. Where to set so that all future purchases charged directly to each individual member?
All members are on iOS 26.4, but each time they buy something, it will still default to my payment although they have added their own card.

Actually I had the same experience when going to Beijing last year. My Galaxy S25 (brand new that time) and an Honor phone had issues with retail coffee chains. Really, really slow loading or just didn't load when ordering from the QR menu. The iPhones were doing better (still laggy) but not by much. Restaurant menus glitched out on both Android and iPhone. Ended up having to ask the staff to order for us half the time. I think the issue isn't the type of phone but rather the simcard. We were all using roaming lines (Celcom & Maxis) and not local numbers so some filtering due to the Great Firewall of China was probably still going on in the background when it came to connecting to China websites/servers. I had zero issues with paying using Alipay/TNG but the food menus didn't play nicely at all. All the maps and whatever regular apps worked fine. Didi through Alipay was flawless except for the annoying search bug.

Alipay/Amap/Didi - Nearly flawless
Chagee/Luckin/regular restaurants - Slow or buggy as hell
Google/Apple Apps - No issues

I believe the solution is actually to get a local China simcard and data if you want to order from the local restaurants/coffee chains. Otherwise you're gonna have issues because of the network filtering/censorship even with roaming. Unless you never eat out in China

my wife iphone and my android phone was purchasing china sim data , as its always cheaper than telco roaming , but stil the signal is stil weak on iphone side.

I was using China SIM card as I have a China number all these years. At the same time, I also have an eSIM I bought to access some blocked apps. But most of the time whenever I'm in China mainly I'll be using China data + VPN.

This post has been edited by fruitie: Apr 8 2026, 12:22 PM

ios26.4.1 released ✅

WhatsApp’s improved CarPlay experience is now available to all iPhone users ✅
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/07/whatsapps-im...l-iphone-users/

This post has been edited by GamersFamilia: Apr 9 2026, 06:51 PM

Not sure if you noticed trip.com also sells esim from diff providers telco.

Maybe could be the issue and next time try other tcos ?

Successfully updated to ios26.4.1 this morning for my iphone 16 pro max ✅

As the ios26.4.1 released yesterday, there's no rush to update it, usually will update to new ios the next day or two days after the ios rolling out for public, in some case only will update it on the same day as official released date

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