MacBook Pro. 2019. Just installed Sonoma 14.0. No problems connecting to WiFi at home. But now at my cottage, I can’t connect to iPhone hotspot. No problem when I connect iPad to hotspot so the issue is the Mac. Have booted in SAFE MODE. No issue reported. Reboot in normal mode. Did not help. Tried turning off firewall. Did not help. Renew DHCP. Did not help. Now I need more ideas… not happy with this update at all.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 14.0
I was having this issue. I tried all the options listed in this thread with no success. Just talked with Apple support and they eventually suggested that I try to add a new network location
Could you please follow the below steps and try adding a new network location?
1 Choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click Network in the sidebar.
2 From the More pop-up menu below the list of services, choose Locations > Edit Locations.

3 Click the add (+) button below the list of locations, then type a name for the new location, such as Work, Home or Mobile.
4 Click Done. Any changes that you now make to your Wi-Fi, Ethernet or other network settings will be saved to the new location. The network settings in your previous location will remain as you left them, so you can switch back at any time.
5 To save your changes and complete the switch to the new location, exit Network settings or quit System Settings.
This ended up fixing my issue.
Hi every body ! im so happy to found back my hotspot connection between my IPHONE SE 2nd GE and my brand new lenovo tab P11 2nd gen !
For all of the people who have this hotspot issue between IOS 17.5.1 and an android device, this method work !!!
"The only thing that worked for me was setting the IP manually instead of DHCP:
Share it every where and thank you a lot for the tips.
Exact same problem, was just going to report. Network reset on my iPhone didn’t solve either. Looks like a major bug.
Same issue here. The only thing that seems to work is just to keep trying until it randomly works for no apparent reason. I don't have the time or energy to bang my head against a digital wall every time I want to use my hotspot. Please, Apple, let's restore the seamless integration.
Brother I cannot thank you enough, days and hours of searching for a fix trying everything I read with nothing working. Then I finally came across your post and tried it thinking it would be like the others and BOOM it instantly connected after adding a new location.
It does make sense that this works because I kept getting the cannot connect and that the router or device was not near, although I don't fully understand what the issue was tbh.
I literally made an account here just to say thank you, I really appreciate it.
For everyone that is having the same issue, this fix works.
Hi Vancouver22. But I can connect my iPad to the same iPhone hotspot. So I am thinking that the iPhone hotspot is not the issue.
Unfortunately that did not resolve the issue. But thanks for the idea.
I have same problem with MacBook Pro 2019 Sonoma 14.1.2
Same thing happened to me. Updated once and was all good but then when I tested it again, I cannot be able to connect. What a headache!!
Thank you, the new location fixed the issue for me as well... Would love to understand what was broken with previous "location"...
deleting post - got posted twice
did you try my solution?
No connection to iPhone hotspot after Sonoma update
