WiFi Hotspot keeps disconnecting - iPhone 11 pro (ios14)

To keep the hotspot,

1 open google maps

2 search for random location to go

3 directions by car or walk

4 Start

Then keep google map running in background, disabled the voice guide, this will keep hotspot on.

That's not correct. There's no "(Sett>Reset>Netw)", I lost almost 20 minutes searching for that.

You have to go to Settings, THEN "General", THEN "Reset", THEN choose "Reset network settings".

I hope this can avoid other users waste time searching the correct way to reset it. :)

One thing I seem to have noticed with mine is it happens more often when my new package of hotspot GB is put on every month or when I’ve been housesitting and come back and try to use the TV again with it. It seems to always have issues turning off at these times the most and it takes forever to get support to do what works because i have to be put through 3 or 4 different types of agents to get someone who will do it. I always do the regular network reset, profile update, turn phone off and back on, try putting it on airplane mode, making sure all updates are downloaded and installed. If none of that works the only other thing that helped was for Apple to reset the hotspot completely and you have to be able to have at least 20 min where you are not going to need to use your phone and can shut it off and once i turned it back on it worked great for weeks without going off at all. It’s just hard to get to someone who will do it even if you tell them you were sent to the special techs and that’s what they had to do they still ask you to try everything then next person and try it again then next and again.

I swear if I can go back and return my iPad Air I would. This is ridiculous. I bought an iPad Air with LTE to use for work when I am traveling - and this thing keeps disconnecting my hotspot. I wish I bought the Galaxy Tab 7, but those idiots were not selling an unlocked LTE version....

This is what worked for me... (iPhone 11)

Reset your Network Settings. Tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. This also resets Wi-Fi networks and passwords, cellular settings, and VPN and APN settings that you’ve used before.

Dear All,

I will tell you the solution to keep hotspot connected:

1- connect to hotspot

2- open GOOGLE MAPS

3- choose any place in your area

4- press STAR

5- disable notifications for google maps

the above steps will keep hotspot connected. I have iphone 11 pro with IOS 14.4

It does not work with my iPhone 8 Plus.

iOS v14.4

and secondly a lot of us need customisation, like:

1) An Open Hotspot without password.

2) Whitelist and Blacklist people.

3) Control hotspot timeout.

It’s 2021 and they haven’t included these very basic options, I have literally no idea why they are announcing 2 new iPhones each year when they should be working on improving the interface.

I used my hotspot for a year smoothly and reliably. I woke up a few days ago to the iOS 14 update, and my life is wrecking ball— as my hotspot no longer stays connected. It is a nightmare. I missed work. I missed all three days of a one time only class I registered for. I have reset my network settings 5 times which helps for 10 minutes, and then the hotspot disappears completely. I am a slave to this. I spent three hours with a very kind Apple support engineer and he is still unable to fix this. All the while I am losing money and class time. Please Apple, resolve this. We need internet like air nowadays.

So someone posted earlier that shutting off Bluetooth helped. This does work!! It’s sucks that you have to shut off blue tooth, but my hotspot does not disconnect any more! Seriously. Turn off your Bluetooth and see.

I've got the newest iPhone (12) obviously the most up-to-date IOS and I'm having the same issue. I recently moved from Android to IOS, I never had this issue with Android, ergo, the issue is with Apple and the IOS.

IMO it's something that Apple needs to fix.

I've spoken with Apple Support - they're worse than useless and kept saying they only deal with billing issues and couldn't give me any advice - in all honestly I wish I'd just upgraded to a new Pixel phone than switching to Apple.

The only way I've found to keep it active is to go into settings and put the time out on the screen to "always on" and then keep the phone on charge - I worry that this is going to greatly reduce the battery life of the phone over time - Apple need to sort this issue!

I was turning on the hotspot or the wifi for the new update IOS14.5.

After connecting the mobile hotspot or the wifi it automatically gets disconnected. I always have to connect and that too I have bought a new IPhone 11 Pro Max and this is happening on the new phone, while I am also having an IPhone X on which this problem is not happening.

Please send the cure as fast.

This is the only solution to circumvent this frustrating bug of the ever disconnecting Personal Hotspot:

Turn off Auto-Lock on your iPhone/iPad. If you set Auto-Lock to "Never", the Personal Hotspot will stay active. Even with screen locked for hours.

No more disconnects after 1 to 5 minutes.

I’m currently facing the same problem and it’s really annoying,since the iOS 14 update I’m no longer able to have a long and secure connection each time I turn on the hotspot from my iPhone 7 connecting to my iPhone X

I also have this issue with iPhone XR IOS 14.6. I've reset all the network connections. I've turned off Blue Tooth. I've set Auto-Lock to Never. The Hot Spot connection still continually drops. To reconnect to the Hot Spot I have to re-save my Hot Spot network password and reconnect to the Hot Spot. This has been an issue since IOS 13 and still has not bee adequately addressed by Apple. Apple developers - please address this issue. The Hot Spot on my iPhone 5 running IOS 10 was more stable.