macOS Tahoe 26 gets a handy feature that allows your MacBook or Mac desktop to automatically connect to your iPhone or cellular iPad’s Personal Hotspot when no known Wi-Fi is available. Additionally, Mac can also be configured to automatically join the Personal Hotspot of a family member’s iOS device.
Learn how to use Apple’s Instant Hotspot feature to share your iPhone’s cellular data as an internet hotspot that other devices can connect to via Wi-Fi.
Learn how to easily discover and remove devices connected to your iPhone hotspot to ensure your personal data and internet speed remain secure.
Learn how to turn your Mac into a wireless Wi-Fi router and share its Internet connection with other devices or to share your Mac’s Wi-Fi with an iPhone or iPad via a USB cable or Bluetooth.
Learn how to change the AirDrop and Personal Hotspot name of your iPhone or iPad so that it appears with the updated name on other devices.
Find out what to do if your Mac isn’t connecting to your iPhone’s Hotspot or keeps disconnecting after every few minutes.
An iPhone hotspot vulnerability that Apple hasn't fixed yet breaks your ability to connect to wireless networks, requiring a factory reset to restore Wi-Fi functionality.
iPhone hotspot connections have become more secure and private thanks to built-in support for the improved WPA3 security protocol in the iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 updates.
Learn how to make your iPhone Personal Hotspot use the faster 5GHz band for better performance or the slower 2.4GHz one for compatibility with all (old) devices.
Learn how to set up Personal Hotspot on your iPhone to share your cellular data with family members, giving them access automatically or with your approval.
After refreshing my Cydia sources this week, I happened upon a peculiar package dubbed Harpy by iOS developer midnightchips. But more importantly, I was pleasantly surprised after tapping on the package to learn more about it.
As it would seem, Harpy is a lightweight networking app that can help you control the users on your local Wi-Fi network or Personal Hotspot. Right out of the box, Harpy provides users with the following features:
Your iPhone’s Personal Hotspot password is displayed as a string of text in the Settings app, which means anyone can look over your shoulder and figure out your password without you knowing.
A new free jailbreak tweak called MaskedHotspotPass by iOS developer Andreas Henriksson helps to do away with this problem by concealing your Personal Hotspot password from the preferences pane.