iPhone 17 Personal Hotspot not working

Hotspot on new iPhone 17 is not working. Connecting, first, takes extremely long, and then I'm shown the following message



and, of course, internet on my iPhone works just right and it's next to the macbook.


It's 'MacOS 26.1 (25B78)' and the new iPhone 17,

iPhone 17, iOS 26

Posted on Nov 18, 2025 1:06 AM

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Posted on Nov 19, 2025 12:39 AM

Thanks. I did a few restarts, and those did not work. In the end, I ran the "reset network settings" like in the attached tutorial, and that fixed the situation. It's a bit annoying as I have to retype some WiFi passwords, but works in the end

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iPhone 17 Personal Hotspot not working

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