Learn how to easily discover and remove devices connected to your iPhone hotspot to ensure your personal data and internet speed remain secure.
How to find and remove devices connected to your iPhone Hotspot
Personal Hotspot
How to change the AirDrop and Personal Hotspot name on iPhone or iPad
Don't like how your iPhone or iPad name appears as Personal Hotspot or AirDrop on other devices? It's easy to change that and use a more meaningful or helpful name. All you have to do is tweak your iPhone's name, and we'll show you how that's done.
How to fix iPhone Personal Hotspot not working or disconnecting on Mac
Your iPhone's Personal Hotspot is readily available on your Mac. However, it can be frustrating when it stops working, disconnects frequently, or doesn't even show as an option.
In this article, we'll explore common causes for this issue and provide solutions to get your Mac up and running again with your iPhone Personal Hotspot.
Seize more control over your local network via your jailbroken iPhone with Harpy Reloaded
As capable of an internet communications device as the iPhone is, it seems like Apple doesn’t give users all that many options for Wi-Fi connectivity and network management.
Like most things Apple, the company instead took a user-friendly approach to reduce the number of interactions a user makes with configuration. This makes complicated things more approachable by the masses, but it can be annoying if you’re a power user that demands more capabilities.
Some malformed network names can break your iPhone’s Wi-Fi, requiring a factory reset to fix
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.
iOS and iPadOS 15 keep your Wi-Fi hotspot connections more secure with WPA3 support
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.
How to choose when iPhone should use 2.4GHz or 5GHz Wi-Fi band for hotspot tethering
All iPhone models from the iPhone 12 onward can use a faster 5GHz Wi-Fi band to boost hotspot tethering performance. But if your client devices encounter issues with the 5GHZ band, you can always set your Personal Hotspot to use a slower 2.4GHz Wi-Fi band. Follow along to learn how to switch between 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands for the iPhone hotspot tethering.
The iPhone 12 series adds support for Personal Hotspot over faster 5GHz Wi-Fi connections
If you have one of the new iPhone 12 models, you'll be pleased to learn that your handset boosts the Internet performance of devices that are connected to its Personal Hotspot by using a faster 5GHz Wi-Fi connection (if available) for hotspot tethering.
How to share your iPhone hotspot with family members
You might use the Personal Hotspot feature on your own device so that you have a data connection if you’re without internet. So it’s nice to know that you can do the same for your family, meaning they can share yours.
If you use Family Sharing, setting this up is simple, and your family members can join without the password. Here, we’ll show you how to share your Hotspot with your family members.
If you’re having issues with Personal Hotspot on your iPhone or iPad, you’re not alone
In this day and age of self-isolation amid coronavirus lockdowns, I've been having lots of issues with my broadband Internet connection (as have a lot of other people) now that many of us are working from home. Network congestion interferes with my work, so when this crisis began escalating I figured I should try using my iPhone's cellular network instead.
This tweak generates a QR code for your iPhone’s Personal Hotspot
Personal Hotspot is an indispensable feature of my iPhone that I use virtually every day as I move out of range of Wi-Fi, and while Apple has made it super easy to pair other iOS devices with the tap of a button, the same can’t be said about non-iOS devices, which often necessitate that you enter the hotspot’s password manually.
If you’re lazy like me and hate having to take the aforementioned steps when you or a friend attempts to connect a new device, then you just might come to appreciate a new and free jailbreak tweak called HotspotQR by iOS developer KingPuffdaddi.
How to stop iPhone, iPad, and Mac from joining personal hotspots when Wi-Fi is unavailable
You can control how and when your client Apple device should join a Personal Hotspot running on a nearby iPhone or cellular iPad if no Wi-Fi networks are currently available. Follow this tutorial to learn how to manage this feature and prevent unwanted cellular data charges.