Personal Hotspot disappeared with iOS 14

I’ve lost the option of personal hotspot for my iphone xs after the upgrade to ios 14 and 14.1 doesn’t fix the problem. It disappeared from the list settings. What could I do?

iPhone XS

Posted on Sep 30, 2020 1:18 AM

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Posted on Jan 10, 2021 1:05 AM

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. 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.





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Personal Hotspot disappeared with iOS 14

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