Personal Hotspot disappeared with iOS 14

Hi,

If Personal Hotspot disappear from your device (it should be visible already when you open Settings, right under the Mobile Data),

or you can't use your mobile internet, there are few easy steps to perform to get it back (no re-starting, switching to airplane mode needed):

1. Open Settings -> Mobile Data -> Mobile Data Network
2. 
3. When you are inside Mobile Data Network, make sure that Mobile Data: APN, Username/Password, and Personal Hotspot: APN, Username/Password values are not empty! If they are empty, you have to google which data should be provided for your particular Mobile phone operator company.

In my case, I had lifecell, and the only thing I had to do was to type APN = internet for Personal Hotspot and for Mobile Data.

and

After these easy steps, Personal Hotspot appeared again.

I hope it helped you.

1) Try and Force Restart your iPhone exactly as shown below and see whether that resolves the issue:

• Press and quickly release Volume UP button
• Press and quickly release Volume DOWN button
• Press and Hold the SIDE button until an Apple logo appears then release the Side button (Can take up to 20 seconds. DO NOT release Side Button when invited to Slide Power OFF). 

(2) If the above does not solve the issue then- See whether a carrier update is needed. Open Settings ➔ General ➔ About : Once you get there then if there is a carrier update needed then a window will automatically pop up asking your permission to update the Carrier settings. If the window does not pop up then there is no carrier update available.

(3) If the above does not work then - Contact your cellular service provider to ensure that the hotspot feature is activated at their end.

Axel F.

I had the same problem and was able to get the hotspot back with my iPhone 8. With the phone on, remove SIM card. Shut down phone. Turn on phone and wait for the Home Screen. Replace the SIM card. Go to settings and toggle airplane mode on, then toggle airplane mode off. Wait about 10 seconds or so and see if hotspot returns.

Axle f’s solution failed on all counts.

1. still states “set up personal hotspot “
2. no carrier update needed
3. carrier shows hotspot is active

moved sim to pixel 3, 4 and Samsung s20 fe 5G and hotspot works fine on android.

tested on iPhone se2020 and my iPhone XR

FAILED ON IOS

does any one have a solution on the back end???

feeling I should go back to android again I have more issues on apple :(

I tried all the aforementioned. My personal hotspot is still gone and my provider does not charge. How do I get it back to my iphone 11 and tell me to volume up/ down right side hold cause all it does is shut it down and nothing changes. Thank you

The Volume Up / Down , Right button procedure does a lot more than just shut the phone down. You have to hold the right side button till the Apple logo shows up.

For EXACT procedure see the initial response all the way at the top. Thanks.

Axel F.

This worked for me. I just slid and held the power button on for 10 seconds with my MacBook open and on my laptop it popped up to join to hotspot as usual. Make sure to slide back the power button else it would switch off the iPhone

For me one of the device gets connected either Mac or iPhone If iPhone is connected then personal hotspot gets connected on Mac but Internet doesn't work on iPhone but when I reset network network settings Personal hotspot works on Mac and Mac gets connected but this time iPhone doesn't Work . Only one of the device gets connected I urge and appeal to apple Kindly Fix this glitch . It is causing lot of problems.

Lost my personal hotspot after update. Tried all the suggestions on here and still could not find it. Went under settings then cellular data and it was there. I turned it off then on and now it is back on the main settings screen.

In my case hotspot setting got lost somewhere around upgrade to 14.6 (iPhone CE 2020). After resetting settings and re-entering the APNs cfg I got "Setup personal hotspot" setting (which wasn't working).

Solution was to replace sim card (with new duplicate received from carrier). Per Apple Support - "older cards may have some compatibility issues with particular models". My sim was from 2001 and it was working correctly with iPhone Xr but not my CE. The Apple Support has also stated that this "compatibility" problem may rise after iOS upgrade (as was in my case) ...

i want personal hotspot in my iPhone

This is frustrating. I am sure there is no change from my service provider

I had the same issue, but then realized I was in airplane mode lol.

222amr

Everything is ok but also there is no personal hotspot