How To Use Personal Hotspot On iPhone/iPad

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One of the main features I really love it and think it is very useful is the Personal Hotspot. For those who don’t know what is Hotspot and what does it do.. Using Hotspot you will be able to turn your iPhone/iPad into a wireless router, thereby sharing the devices internet connection with other Mac, PC, or any other capable hardware. We often call it “Internet Tethering” or Wi-Fi hotspot. This is a very great features for travelers who need internet in critical situations..

 So here’s how to enable Personal Hotspot on your iPhone and turn it into a wireless router: 
  • Go to Settings—>Personal Hotspot and switch it on. 
  • Optional but highly recommended: Tap on “Wi-Fi Password” to set a new custom wireless password to access the device through wifi
  • From the Mac, PC, or other iOS device, choose the newly created personal hotspot as the wireless router, typically it’s named “iPhone” or “iPad”, or whatever the name of the device is set to

Very simple right ? Whatever device becomes connected to the iPhone or iPad will treat it as a normal wireless router and use it’s internet connection as usual, never knowing the difference. The iPhone/iPad will display a blue status bar indicating Hotspot is on and devices are connected to it’s internet connection.

Connecting through wi-fi is by far the easiest way to use the iOS devices internet service, but you can also connect through Bluetooth if desired, which is often slightly slower, or through a tethered USB connection, which is often the quickest and has the advantage of also charging the iPhone or iPad, but it’s disadvantaged by the physical USB attachment between the devices. Most carriers place a five device limit on Personal Hotspot use, so be aware of that and don’t try to provide the entire officer neighborhood with an internet connection through your cell phone.

When you are finished using the iPhone/iPad internet connection, go back into Settings and toggle Personal Hotspot back to OFF. This will stop broadcasting the wi-fi and Bluetooth signal as a hotspot, and also save some battery life.

Personal Hotspot isn’t Showing Up On iPhone/iPad ? 

Can’t you see Personal Hotspot on your iPhone/iPad ? Well there is a lot of things that may cause such thing.. First not all carriers support Persoanl hotspot feature, so you will have to call your carrier and ask them if this feature supports your carrier or not..

On the other hand, if you know for sure that you do have support for internet sharing on your iPhone or iPad with a data plan to support it, but Personal Hotspot has mysteriously disappeared, you can often just reset the devices network settings to bring it back into the Settings menu. Then just flip it on again as usual to get going.

How To Watch Personal Hotspot Data Usage:
So you have successfully turned your iPhone into a Wireless router, but maybe you want to know and keep your eye on the personal hotspot data usage.. But remember using personal hotspot is very expensive, so don’t try to download a movie or watching a YouTube video from computer… Just surf the web and check Facebook or etc…
Here’s how to check this in iOS:

  • Open Settings, go to “General”, then go to “Usage”
  • Scroll down to “Cellular Usage” and look under “Cellular Network Data” to see a live count of network use

Following these steps will make you sure that you don’t mess up anything when using personal hotspot.


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