My home wifi service dropped out and my phone automatically connected to my phone hotspot even though hotspot was turned off. I ended up racking up quite a cel data bill. How can I disable hotspot unless I allow it?
iPhone 8, iOS 12
Wait, are you saying the one phone you have connected to its own hotspot? That is impossible. What most likely happened is you lost Wi-Fi and the phone switched to cellular data, as it is designed to do. That is not the same thing as connecting to the phone's own hotspot.
You can go into Settings/Cellular and turn off any apps that you don't want to allow to use cellular data.
Wait, are you saying the one phone you have connected to its own hotspot? That is impossible. What most likely happened is you lost Wi-Fi and the phone switched to cellular data, as it is designed to do. That is not the same thing as connecting to the phone's own hotspot.
You can go into Settings/Cellular and turn off any apps that you don't want to allow to use cellular data.
Problem started when I was streaming a movie on my iPad. When the iPad lost the home wifi signal, it automatically connected to my iPhone as a hotspot even though the hotspot function on the phone was turned off. I've tried testing this several times. When I switch my iPad wifi to my iPhone hotspot, the hotspot on the phone automatically turns on.
When connected at hotspot, the phone connects through cel data and the $$$ start to rack up.
Is there a way to prevent the phone hotspot from automatically turning on?
Did you test it with a device logged in to the same Apple ID as the phone?
Yes my ipad mini
Just tried “Other.” Typed in iphone and the password but it “could not detect network iphone”
Tried bluetooth “xxx’s ipad not supported”
The phone must be unlocked or connected to power, if it isn’t WiFi is off.
On the iPad connect to it, tap the i next to the name, and turn off Auto-Join.
I tested mine twice and when the hotspot is off it is not possible to make it turn on automatically or manually. When it is off it does not broadcast the SSID
(iphone 6S)
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