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andrew165
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Q: How to get Personal Hotspot working consistently?

Hi All,

 

I have an iPhone 5s 16gb and an iPad Air 32gb (non cellular).

 

I'm having issues with the personal hotspot working/not working intermittently.  It never connects first time, even though wireless,Bluetooth and hotspot are all turned on, I have to toggle them off then on again for my iPad to pick up my iPhone.

 

Even then my iPhone says I have one device connected but iPad doesn't show as connected and wont work, again toggling on and off seems to rectify this and it will connect after a couple more attempts.

 

If I leave my iPad for a couple of minutes and it sleeps the connection is lost again and I have to go through the rigmarole of toggling everything on and off again to get it reconnected.

 

I was led to believe that with IOS8 the personal hotspot experience was supposed to be a lot easier, it certainly doesn't appear that way at the moment............if anything it's worse. You would have thought that this would have been a piece of functionality that should work flawlessly but Apple appear to have dropped the ball on this one.

 

Wondered if anyone else is having similar issues? Maybe I have missed a setting somewhere that I don't know about but if anyone can help that would be great.

 

Thanks, Andy.

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.1.1

Posted on Dec 4, 2014 5:29 AM

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  • by marianogx,

    marianogx marianogx Jul 8, 2015 8:10 AM in response to andrew165
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    Jul 8, 2015 8:10 AM in response to andrew165

    Same here and I have to either deactivate and reactivate every time, or at least navigate to Settings>Personal hotspot menu and leave it there for a minute, for the other devices to detect the network.

     

    iPhone 6, iOS 8.3

  • by Smittyken12 ,

    Smittyken12 Smittyken12 Jan 31, 2016 10:25 AM in response to andrew165
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    Jan 31, 2016 10:25 AM in response to andrew165

    Unfortunately I believe everybody has the same problem and it's a shame. I would also add that that's frustrating Apple doesn't even automatically turn off the setting for hotspot when something doesn't connect or as you said goes to sleep. It certainly seems that it continues to seriously drain the battery

     

    If anybody finds any suggestions or have any thoughts by all means please let me know, as I have unlimited data and use it regularly

     

    The only suggestion I have is getting a Wi-Fi bridge, I got one from Edimax and leave it connected to your phone at all times and have The devices in your home connect to that