iPhone Hotspot keeps disconnecting

Use these steps first

Restart the iPhone or iPad that provides Personal Hotspot and the other device that needs to connect to Personal Hotspot. Make sure that you have the latest version of iOS. On the iPhone or iPad that provides Personal Hotspot, go to Settings > General > Reset, then tap Reset Network Settings.

If Personal Hotspot is not working on your iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi

The Hotspot is a carrier-specific feature. Contact your carrier, if it is not appearing on your device.

Also, check the following

1. Network coverage and stability
2. Data Balance
3. On your windows (See if WiFi Auto Joins is enabled)
4. Also, check if you have any stronger WiFi signal around your computer.

I have an I phone 13 pro max and was facing this issue! All I did was turned on the hotspot and turned off the option maximize compatibility and connected my hotspot and it works well! Try this and hope it helps all those who are facing this issue.

I have the same issue ever since I got the iPhone 14. Tried all the steps that literally all pages recommend : reset network settings, change iPhone name, change password, update iOS, reboot - everything.

It is like Kristaps mentions. Hotspot is being turned off on the iPhone itself. Has nothing to do with windows.

Any real help would be appreciated.

I have the same issue with a Lenovo laptop running Fedora Linux. This laptop ran like a champ on my Pixel 4a. Now I am connecting to an iPhone 14 Pro.

This is a dealbreaker for me, and it's telling that one user had success if he connected with a Mac. This smells like too much system integration going on, and too little simple following of standards.

I don't think it's solved by the customer doing a bunch of backflips to get it to work. This sounds like a bug.

Tried all the methods several times. Only windows does not connect to iPhone hotspot. Either this is a bug that they are refusing to fix or this is on purpose to keep people inside the Apple systems. Very disappointing.

Same here. Iphone 14 connected to new Dell-i7 by USB-C charge cable that came with the phone. On a daily basis, it periodically drops the connection despite me being active at the time - there's no apparent trigger - happens at random. Very frustrating! Have done all the suggested fixes, but the issue persists.

IT does not work. apple software keeps it disconnecting. i reset it more than 20 times. its feel like nonsense now.

i have alot of data available. same sim card is being used in android and its not disconnecting.

there is no strong wifi. i checked all your points. only issue is with mobile.

using 14 promax and lastest software updated

iPhone 13 Pro after latest update same issue. This morning I wasn't able to join meeting due to hotspot randomly disconnecting. It was connected to charger all the time, after disconnection did hard restart, reset. Nothing helped!

Also lock screen notifications are still squared for some miliseconds, not rounded right away, seems like a lag.

And guess what iPhone 13Pro without any harsh usage and healthy charging now battery health is 87%.

FOR WHAT ARE WE PAYING Whats the point of releasing new model every year if none of them are working fully ??

Same here. They better can call this "No Support From Apple Community" Of course it's pathetic that nobody of Apple is reading this and helps solving the problem. As a 33 (!) year long Apple user ... it used to be a brand that was user friendly, now it is as pathetic and complicated as ms/dos then and just as autistic and nerdy as Microsoft. When they were a niche brand it was okay. Now they became a money making machine like the rest.

I can confirm that this issue has been going on for YEARS with iphones personal hotspot. Why can't it work as reliably as hotspot on android phone? If I turn on the hotspot feature on an Android phone it stays on and works for hours, perfectly, if I need it. In my experience, connecting a second apple product to the iPhone's hotspot works more reliably than connecting an Android device or a Windows PC, but it is still not flawless. I remember reading somewhere that apple designed the hotspot to turn off automatically if no data traffic is detected over the hotspot for a certain period of time. That is fine but there should be an option to disable this feature, because having to go fiddling with the wifi setting on my second client device and the personal hotspot on the host iphone, every time I want to share my cellular data is a huge pain. Let me leave the hotspot on and discoverable and let me worry about my battery. My guess for the reason apple has persistently refused to fix this issue is a mix of micromanaging "their iPhone" (you only pay for the device, you don't own it) and more apple ecosystem, walled-garden, BS.

I’m a gamer and heavy on the spectrum and this is happening to me constantly as well and it’s driving me insane. Like literally I am having fits of anger and I have become very unsportsmanlike due to the constant irritation. I’m already pretty high, strong and irritable, but this is putting me over the edge and for the life of me it makes no sense because while the PC will disconnect my tablet or Nintendo switch and the PC is where all my games are. Apple, please do something about this. It’s on your end. It had to be. all my stuff is constantly up-to-date almost religiously.

and honestly, this 13 Pro is just not a good phone. It’s a Bizzarre & small size that I would expect for the regular version but I can’t imagine it being smaller than this, it doesn’t run the newest games smoothly and not without overheating like crazy. And the battery life just keeps getting lower and lower seemingly quick. I’ve only had the thing almost a year and a half and it’s down to 86% battery health. And while I realize that things may get taken out of your store, I thought the arrangement was if you have linked it to your account that you could re-download it forever as long as it will function on the current iOS, and when you guys went back on that I cried and screamed and cursed your name. The biggest kick to the nuts to me though is that I do not want to step verification on my device. It automatically set it to do that and apparently you do not allow us to unset it if it has been several weeks since it was implemented. And yet we did not get a severe warning that you implemented it without our knowledge, and I don’t want it. I feel betrayed by you I’m reconsidering, whether or not I can live without the Apple App Store.

The only option is to disable auto locking on your phone. When the screen is active the iPhone’s hotspot will not disconnect your devices.

Hello everyone,

you don’t need to try anything, nothing wrong with your devices..

i’ve been using iphone since iphone 5 and this issue since then till now still there..

simply if you open hotspot on your iphone and try to connect any other device, it will connect for a while and randomly it will get disconnected.. not matter what the device you trying to connect is iphone or android or even windows.. same behavior. The only stable connection you can have through hotspot is only by USB Cable!

the issue with hotspot over wifi & bluetooth never been fixed for generations on apple devices. Also when you connect iphone to iphone through hot spot, you cannot install IOS updates as it dont recognise it as a wifi for some unknown reasons..