How To Use Personal Hotspot On Iphone
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.
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. Those who want to use it must have a tethering facility included. Tethering is a way to share an iphone s 3g 4g or 5g data connection with other nearby computers and mobile devices ipads with 3g 4g or 5g can also be used as personal hotspots when tethering is enabled the iphone functions like a cellular modem or wi fi hotspot and broadcasts its internet connection to other devices that are connected to it. 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. Before the iphone 12 lineup apple s personal hotspot feature was limited to the slower 2 4ghz wi fi band.
You can connect to a personal hotspot using wi fi bluetooth or usb. 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.