Does ios 18 provide both wifi hotspot and cellular hotspot? Till date iphone is creating personal hotspot when cellular plan is on and can't make wifi hotspots through wifi on though it shows password.

Expanding on what lobsterghost said, there is no such thing as a "WiFi Hotspot" as such. The whole point of a "personal hotspot" on any phone is to allow a device that has WiFi but not a cellular network capability to connect to cell, by going through a device that does have cellular service. That cell-capable device essentially acts as a WiFi router to the other devices. So no current or future iOS version is going to offer a "WiFi Hotspot" since that just doesn't exist.

So your current iPhone and its current version of iOS is offering all the "hotspot" services that are or will be available, barring perhaps small details in terms of setup, security, and such.

Regards.

When you set up a hot-spot,

• Wi-Fi is like a driveway in front of your house.
• Cellular data is like a city street in front of your house.
• The Internet is like the massive network of roads that spans the whole continent.
• Your iPhone is like the connection between the end of your driveway, and the city streets.
• Devices that might use a hotspot are like cars parked in the driveway or garage of your house.

If you could set up a Wi-Fi hotspot when cellular data was turned off, it would be pretty useless. Other devices that connected to your phone via Wi-Fi could talk to your phone, and maybe to each other, but none of them would have the ability to get to the Internet.

Since people who are looking for hotspots are generally looking for the ability to get to the Internet … not merely the ability to turn around in the driveway … the idea of using a Wi-Fi hot-spot on an iPhone when cellular data is turned off does not make much sense.

bhanu281 wrote:

Hope wifi hotspots can be made in ios 18 updates through wifi also. We get cellular plan on and get hotspots on and we could not get personal hotspot over wifi being cellular plan off.

That makes no sense.

If the iPhone can already connect to a Wi-fi network to share it, then any other device close enough to the iPhone to use that shared wi-Fi network wold also just be able to connect directly to that same Wi-Fi network the iPhone is sharing already.

Why would you need to go through the iPhone to connect to a Wi-Fi network that's clearly available to all nearby devices already?

I think you are misunderstanding the object of a Hot Spot.

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-18-preview/

I don't understand your question? A hotspot can be created using cellular data WHEN access to Wifi is NOT an option. If you have Wifi and can access it, why would you need a hotspot from Wifi? That is in essence, exactly what using a Wifi network is in the first place.