How To Use Personal Hotspot On Iphone
Before the iphone 12 lineup apple s personal hotspot feature was limited to the slower 2 4ghz wi fi band.
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. 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. 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. 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. Slide the personal hotspot switch to the on position.
Those who want to use it must have a tethering facility included. 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.