I will never connect my iPad to my phone hotspot or my phone to my iPad hot
spot. It is a stupid addition. How can I make each device forget the other network and NEVER be viewers again?
The same way you'd forget any other WiFi network that's been saved. It's in the Settings - WiFi - select the network you want to forget, tap on the blue icon (i in a circle).
Unless the device providing the personal hotspot is turned off or not nearby, it will continue to show up in the Wifi list.
You cannot stop it from appearing there, anymore than you can stop other nearby wifi networks from appearing there as well.
Its just telling you it exists nearby.
Why do you need it to be gone? Just don't tap on it. Ignore it.
Change your Hotspot password on each device. After that, unless you personally select the other device’s Hotspot name and enter the password (that you just created), it will not connect.
I have found that some of the Apple devices in my house are displaying their Hotspts as if they were turned on for use. They weren’t. Other times, after seeing my son’s hotspot listed under available networks, I’ve gone into his phone to shut it off and it was already off.
and I'm supposed to know you've done it, right?
I only know what you've told us. Reset network settings is my other suggestion. Wait... am I supposed to know that you've done that too and it doesn't forget? I'd be a psychic if I had that ability.
Why would anyone ever attach an iPad to a phone in LTE?
To share the one devices LTE with another. It's designed to let you have share an internet connection when there's no wifi available.
Obviously if both devices have Cellular support this is unnecessary, but when one of the devices is a Wifi only device, being able to share the data connection from another device is very useful. This is what a Personal Hotspot is designed to allow.
I would much rather browse the internet or write an email on my large iPad, then on my iPhone's if I have the choice. My iPad is a Wifi only model, and as such when no Wifi is available, I can choose to use my iPhone's LTE connection to access the internet on it. It let's me not have to pay for 2 cellular service plans, and still have access to the internet when no wifi is available.
And a second device should not turn on a hotspot and use battery life of another device.
Again, it doesn't. Unless you actually tap the hotspot in Wifi settings to activate it, it does not happen automatically. It stays off, and does not use battery at all.
Being listed in the Wifi settings of another device merely serves as a way to know its available. It does not in any way imply the device that sees it is actually using it.
This should be a conscience choice to turn on the hotspot on the original device.
Again, it is a conscious choice. It will not activate and connect to the Hotspot unless you manually choose to do so.
This is not a goof. Hotspot works the same across all devices that support it, Android, Windows, and Apple. Its an industry standard. What you want goes against all the functionality standards set forth since the implementation of the Hotspot.
Thanks. This is unacceptable and needs to be fixed. 1) The 2nd device can TURN ON the hot spot of the 1st device which should never happen. 2) The devices have never joined the other device and should not even know the password but apparently they do which should never happen. 3) While they are both powered on and close to each other they are typically on a stable WiFi at home. If home WiFi fails they should not look for a hot spot in LTE and should connect to the 4G cellular that I pay for. 4) If I am on travel and they are both powered on and in close proximity, I still would not want one device trying to connect to the other—ever. This is a huge fail for Apple. Please fix.
If that worked, I would not be posting here. It doesn’t forget or go away.
Whether I tried it or not, it doesn’t work, so why give answers that are wrong? I don’t want a guess or something to try, that’s not what I asked. How to do it, is what I asked.
I will indeed give feedback. Why would anyone ever attach an iPad to a phone in LTE? I would do whatever I wanted to do on my phone in 4G. So what device does this make sense for? An iPod? No again I would do it on my phone. And a second device should not turn on a hotspot and use battery life of another device. This should be a conscience choice to turn on the hotspot on the original device. Truly Apple goofed this time. Dumb, annoying, and useless.
When I look at any WiFi enabled device at the list of available WiFi I see 1)WiFi devices that are ON and 2) not hidden. So seeing a WiFi for my a device that is not actively a hotspot is contrary to what that list is designed to tell me. And if I want to connect to a WiFi’s source that I own and is powered off or hidden, then I must turn it on and know the password. Why would my phone hotspot be different? It should not be. It should be able to be hidden just like any other WiFi device and when it is OFF it should be be listed just like any other WiFi device. Period. If I had a WiFi only password and want to connect to my phone (that is nearby) I simply go to the hotspot device and turn it on. I should not be able to turn ON the hotspot from the other device—ever for any reason. What Apple has done is contrary to the industry standard.
(Addition) And from my Android phone I cannot see my Android tablet as a WiFi source, nor does my Android tablet see my Android phone as a hotspot while the function is OFF. So I don’t know what industry standard you are citing.
And my Android devices cannot see my Apple devices as hotspot sources until I turn ON the functionality. Nor do my Apple devices see my Android devices as hotspot sources until I turn on the function. And I must know the password for those devices to connect. As it should be! The industry standard!
good luck.
Once forgotten, one device should never initiate a personal hotspot connection to the other on its own. You need to actually tap on the connection to start it.
If both devices are using the same Apple ID, then yes, they will know each other's personal hotspot password. This is designed this way to make it easy to connect to your own devices hotspot, so you don't have to be typing in a password each time.
My iPad however, has never on its own activated and connected to my iPhone's Personal Hotspot when they are nearby. It's not an automatic action.
If the option to see the hotspots is taken away, then there's no way to connect to one when you need to. And even if you could hide them from yourself, what would stop the iPad from automatically connecting to it anyway if that's what its doing. Just because you can't see them listed there, doesn't mean the iPad stops knowing they exist.
Also this is a user to user forum, you are not addressing Apple, as users like yourself, we cannot fix anything.
If you wish to give Apple feedback about it, use their feedback link: Feedback - iPhone - Apple
How to forget a personal hotspot.
