My iPhone is not appearing on my mac menu bar wifi icon. They are both connected on the same wifi and have the same iCloud accounts. Everything else handoff, airdrop, iPhone on the mac sidebar works fine. How do I make it re appear on the wifi icon?
Solve the issue by signing out and again sign in into my mac.
Is your Jeff's iPhone personal hotspot enabled on your iPhone?
The screenshot you provided is a list of available WiFi networks; if Jeff's iPhone network is not showing as available then it would appear that your hotspot is either not working or its signal is too weak to be detected.
After checking your iPhone settings, I'd suggest shutting down & restarting both your iPhone and your Mac. See if it reappears; if not, then we can pursue other avenues.
And just for information, if both your iPhone and Mac are already on the same WiFi network (as you said in your original post), why do you want to use a hotspot instead?
It's on Catalina. I used to have that on my wifi icon and it's used to offer to connect to the phone hotspot whenever my wifi goes down. Now it also doesn't offer that.
This is the feature I am looking for : https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/12/how-to-check-iphone-battery-percentage-mac/
And here is a link from apple: Use an iPhone or iPad to connect your Mac to the internet - Apple Support
Connect using Wi-Fi
Make sure your iOS or iPadOS device and your Mac are signed in with the same Apple ID.
On your Mac, click the Wi-Fi status iconin the menu bar, then choose your iPhone or iPad.
After you connect to the personal hotspot on your iPhone or iPad, you can use the Wi-Fi status menu to check your device’s battery status and the strength of its cellular signal.
When you’re not using using the hotspot, your devices automatically disconnect to save battery life.
My phone is just beside my iPhone. After turning on the hotspot on my phone, my mac shows it just another wifi. No, battery icons or signals status. Please see the screenshot I took, mark with yellow is the phone's hotspot.
That's all I see about my iPhone hotspot on my iMac. Just the lock & hotspot icon. I have never seen the signal/LTE/battery symbols there (connected or not). I'm running Catalina.
Is your Mac on Catalina or Big Sur or Monterey?
A description will be more helpful. By default, I kept this disabled.
I want this to come back:
Picture taken from google.
Wifi icon not showing iPhone on mac.
