You can’t directly edit the details of a contact in the WhatsApp application. You need to make any changes in your ‘Contacts’ app on OSX and Whatsapp automatically syncs any changes that are made. But sometimes it takes a while to sync across.
To speed it up you can change the contact details on your iPhone which seems to sync faster.
If they are not syncing it could be a privacy setting on you phone. Check out this link:
https://faq.whatsapp.com/195231088335525/?helpref=faq_content
I have an iPhone 13 and a new model 14inch m1 MacBook Pro. I’d love to copy the photo’s from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro. I can’t find a way to do it easily. The only option seems to be using a lightning to USB cable, but even then the processes painfully slow. There are some paid apps on the App Store that claim to allow transfer over wifi, which reinforces to me the idea that it can’t be done over wifi without extra software. I’ve done a lot of searching and can’t see that anyone has an answer yet. If you do find a solution, please let me know in a comment below.
There is an option from finder to do a wifi sync of a phone, but even I you select ‘Sync’ for photos it doesn’t’ copy the photos from the iPhone to the computer.
iCloud is obviously Apple’s preferred way of doing it but it requires you to pay for extra iCloud storage space. I just want to transfer the photos directly form my iPhone to my laptop Photos library.
Apple offer the ability to copy photos from an iPhone directly to Photos app. But to do so requires a physical connection, you can’t do it over wifi. I found the copy process to be tediously slow. I connected my iPhone to my laptop before I started writing this article half an hour ago and it’s still sitting at ‘Preparing to import from “Wayne’s iPhone”‘
Airdrop is an option that works, but you need to select the photos one by one, and it drops them into the downloads folder of you MacBook (not into the Photos app).
If anyone has found a way to do this, drop a comment below!
See a great comparison here:
You can slide between shots from both cameras and compare them side by side. (Make sure you move the slider in the middle of the photos.)
I’m surprised by how consistently different the colours in the photos are. The iPhone photos look ‘nicer’ but they also look less realistic. It’s hard to know which is more realistic without seeing the original scene. The colours and saturation on the iPhone seem a little too enhanced to me. What do other people think?
An update on What is causing the iOS11 battery drain problems.
The problem did not clear up. I’ve been in contact with Apple support. They had me do a complete factory reset on my iPhone. They accessed it remotely and did some battery tests. The hardware is fine. The battery dropped from 100% to 75% while I was on the phone to Apple support! I have every possible feature turned off, no mobile data, no Location Services, no Bluetooth, no Background App refresh etc. I now am waiting a few hours for the phone to be able to be able to collect some usage data and then Apple tech support will call me back. I’ll keep you updated.
Another Update: The factory reset did not work. Apple remotely ran some more diagnostics on my phone. They did a test where I had to let the phone battery drain for 4 hours without using any apps in airplane mode. Then Apple got me to download a diagnostic app to my computer which downloaded a 350Mb file from my iPhone and these results were sent to Apple engineers who are analysing them. Apple will call me back soon.
Yet Another Update: Apple need to do more tests. I took my phone into an Apple repairer today.
Final Update: Apple Sent me a new iPhone. So there’s a major problem with iOS11 that can cause an iPhone do die such that Apple need to replace it to fix the problem. If you have an iPhone SE or 6 that’s battery life is problematic since iOS11 and it’s under warranty I’d suggest you take it back.
1:13pm Battery is full
3:13pm Battery is half used after 2 hours.
4:53pm – battery is flat
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My iPhone has been using huge amounts of battery power for almost 2 weeks now – ever since I upgraded to iOS11. It can drop 20% of it’s battery percentage in an hour and it’s using so much power that it takes 5 hours to charge! I’m keen to see who else is having this problem and whether it’s resolved itself for you.
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After some reading I am hoping that this increase in power usage on iOS11 is caused by Spotlight reindexing. This would also make sense as to why all the power saving measures such as low power mode etc make no difference. It also makes sense as to why the battery drain doesn’t seem to be tied to any particular application. If this is the case, all we need to do is wait a few days and the iPhone should finish indexing and eventually return to its normal self. If however it’s some kind of a bug in iOS11, we may need to wait for a fix from Apple. If it is caused form Spotlight indexing, waiting should eventually fix it. If you are camping or in a situation where you you need the phone and cannot put up with the battery drain you have 3 options:
UPDATE: It’s not caused by Spotlight indexing. I turned off all indexing and the problem is still there.
I’m contacting Apple Support and will keep you updated.
In this Google Pixel review I commented that one of the frustrating things about the Google Pixel phone was that sometimes it missed incoming text messages. In fact this was so critical to me that it caused me to switch back to my iPhone. I have since discovered that this was not a problem with my Google pixel phone at all, but rather a problem with Apple messages. If you are changing phones from an iPhone to a different brand, make sure you turn off iMessage first.
Many iPhone users are noticing a fast drain in battery life in iOS 11. You can check which apps are using your battery by going to Settings –> Battery and then scrolling down to where it says ‘BATTERY USAGE.’ You will see a screen like this:
This is a very handy chart that lets you see which apps are using your battery. For me, it’s Google Play Music. I admit, I do use the Google Play Music App a lot to listen to music.
If you click on the App in question, it will tell you how much you have used it. I clicked on Google Play Music and it told me that I have used it for 2.3 hours on the screen and 4 minutes in the background over the last 24 hours.
Click on the app name to see whether the usage is when the app is on screen or in the background.
You can look at your battery drain over the past 24 hours, or the past 7 days.
For hints on how to save battery life, check out “iOS11 battery drain problems”.
I just got caught out for the first time by the missing headphone jack in the new iPhone. I was with some friends and we wanted to listen to a song from one of their iPhones. I went to plug it onto our PA system… no headphone jack in the phone! But it won’t happen again! Here’s my recommendation. If you are a club, a church, a school, a recording studio, anyone who has a sound system, grab yourself one of these Apple lightning to headphone jack dongles from the Apple store and leave it near your mixing desk. Continue reading ⟩
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