How To Use Personal Hotspot On Iphone
Personal hotspot is an ios feature that allows other devices to connect to the internet via the iphone s cellular data connection.
How to use personal hotspot on iphone. It didn t matter whether you had a dual band wi fi router supporting both 2 4ghz and 5ghz bands the phone would always use the slower 2 4ghz band for hotspot tethering. With instant hotspot the personal hotspot on your iphone or cellular ipad shares online access to any mac iphone ipad or ipod touch without entering the password. You can connect to a personal hotspot using wi fi bluetooth or usb. And with ios 13 or later devices that are connected to a personal hotspot will stay connected even if the screen is locked so those devices will still get notifications and messages. Slide the personal hotspot switch to the on position.
Keep in mind you won t be able to connect to wi fi networks on your iphone while this is enabled and certain features such as airdrop might. First verify that the ios device you want to use as the hotspot is signed in to icloud with the same apple id as the mac or ios device you want to provide internet access to.