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under cellular data Facebook is listed, under Facebook it says Personal hotspot. What does that mean?

under personal hotspot it says other devices and the second line says android-a bunch of numbers. I've never used my phone as a hotspot why would this have 13.6 mb under an android device?


iPhone 6s, iOS 13

Posted on Sep 1, 2020 5:13 PM

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Sep 2, 2020 5:31 PM in response to Jamiepavlas

By new phone you mean no one else ever owned it? When you first turned it on a screen appeared that said “Hello” in many languages? When you go to Settings it shows your name and your Apple ID at the top of the screen?


What you describe can only have happened if either the phone was previously used, or if someone with the device with the Android-like name knows your Apple ID and password. That is the only way another device could have used your hotspot without you having to approve it. And they would have had to have been very near you.

under cellular data Facebook is listed, under Facebook it says Personal hotspot. What does that mean?

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