Unable to connect my MacBook Air M1 to my hotspot on my iPhone 12 Pro

having the same issue as well

iphone 15 pro max with m1 pro mac (sonoma 14.2.1)

I am having the exact same issue with my iPad and MacBook. Nice punitive feature. Any other fixes?

I think we need to get rid of apple, i am an iPhone user since 10 years, but they mess with us! Hot spot wich is missing now was a very important thing for me!

I tried it out on my MacBook Air M2 with OS14.3 into an iphoneSE2 iOS17.3.

I did not have an issue connecting to the internet through the hotspot of the iphoneSE2.

You might try turning the WIFI off and then back on with both the Mac and the iPhone.

I have even had to restart my iPhone on occasion to get things right.

As an update here, I've been given a different laptop at my work, crucially still running 14.1

The same up to date iPhone that cannot connect to my M1 14.3 hotspot, connects to my M3 14.1 hotspot no problem. This HAS to therefore be a 14.3 bug – the issue is not with iOS 17.2.1

No way am I updating the software on the new Mac to 14.3!

Did you try updating to ios 17.3 on your iphone? You are not on the latest IOS.

Technically you are not using an "up to date" iphone. Is it an Iphone SE2 or iphone15?

Information about the iphone you are using and what Mac laptops are being used may be helpful.

The hardware radios in the phones get updated to different wifi protocols.

One can guess the M3 Mac is a Macbook pro 14 or 16. What was the M1 Mac??

When I said the iOS was the "same up to date" I meant it's the same iPhone on the same iOS I was using when I first reported the issue, using hotspot on the M1 MBP. I was trying to illustrate that the same iOS does work with the M3 and so there's no change in variables on the iPhone side. This implies to me that the cause is not down to the phone since it can establish a hotspot with other Macs in the house on an older OS, be it an intel on Big Sur or the M3 on 14.1. The only variable that is unsuccessful is Sonoma 14.3

The iPhone is a 12

The M1 is a MBP 16", same for the M3.

I have tried all the workarounds in this thread, be them on the phone or the Mac and none have been successful whilst connecting with 14.3

I will update the iOS 17.3 but I think it's pretty clear where the blame lies?

I am having the exact same problem. On my Mac M1 I am running Sonoma 14.3 and my iPhone is running iOS 17.3. My Mac connects to my home wifi without any problems. When I bring it into work and connect to the wireless there it connects and runs for a bit then drops off.

I tried connecting to a Verizon Mi-Fi and it would connect for a bit, then drop off.

On my iPhone hotspot it would do the same thing.

I tried everything above including resetting the OS and same problem.

So frustrating.

See if a work college or a friend has an Android phone and put your SIM into that and test that to see if that works, just as an experiment.

For me that is the only solution that I have personally found to work (at least for a Mac that is older than July 2022, older than M2 / M3 chips)

This is the solution! I spent the entire day with Apple Support, and they scheduled an appointment for me at the Genius Bar for in-person support. However, this resolves the issue. Thank you for sharing—let’s get this to the top so everyone can see it.

Same issue except im on bigsur. None of the solutions work. It will connect finally after the ipv6 thing but no internet.

the thing is im on same ios version. So i suspect that is the issue here and not the laptop. Is there any way to revert the version update? I cant work without a hotspot and neither can anyone oncall at my org. We will have to switch to android for this?

Changing the ipv6 settings to automatic doesn’t do it for me, the only thing that works is tediously changing them all manually (as above) every time I want to hotspot, which is very tedious. Has anyone else come up with a permanent solution? This is all extremely frustrating that two relatively new apple products don’t play together reliably.