iphone 4 personal hotspot not in options

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iphone 4 personal hotspot not in options

i have recently updated my iphone 4 (o2-uk) to ios i thought that i would use the personal hotspot feature allot but when i went in to my settings to activate it the tab was not listed in the settings. can some please tell me what to do to resolve this issue

iphone 4, iOS 4

Posted on Mar 17, 2011 12:55 PM

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Mar 17, 2011 12:58 PM in response to fishy spud

You went to settings where on your iPhone?

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Mar 17, 2011 12:59 PM in response to Allan Sampson

yes

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Mar 17, 2011 1:01 PM in response to fishy spud

Yes what? You went to settings where on your iPhone?

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Mar 17, 2011 1:02 PM in response to Allan Sampson

it was not listed in the settings on my iphone

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Mar 17, 2011 1:04 PM in response to fishy spud

Once again - where in settings did you go?

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Mar 17, 2011 1:29 PM in response to Allan Sampson

I have checked the network and on the main part of the settings

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wegras

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Mar 17, 2011 2:31 PM in response to fishy spud

Settings>>>General>>>>>Network>>>>
pull down screen and you should " set up Personal Hotspot "
if you tap you will offered the link to O2 to set up a bolt on at a cost
If you want help you may find it forthcoming if you can bother to communicate a little better

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fishy spud Author

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Mar 17, 2011 11:39 PM in response to wegras

I have looked in Settings>>>General>>>>>Network>>>> for set up personal hotspot and it is not listed

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Mar 18, 2011 3:22 AM in response to Allan Sampson

Hi,

I currently have the same issue. I cannot find the hotspot tab on my iPhone.

ANy advice?

Thx

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wegras

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Mar 18, 2011 5:57 AM in response to fishy spud

reboot iPhone
hold sleep/Home buttons until Apple icon appears release buttons ignoring the off slider that will appear during button holding

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fishy spud Author

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Mar 18, 2011 12:26 PM in response to wegras

That did not work

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wegras

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Mar 18, 2011 2:14 PM in response to fishy spud

You are on 4.3 I assume
if so
Restore with back up
restore as new iPhone
if neither work find an Apple retail store make an appointment at Genius bar and have them look at it

Message was edited by: Peter Gillespie

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Mar 18, 2011 3:04 PM in response to fishy spud

As Peter says if you are on 4.3 it should be under network. But unless you already have tethering on your account it will just show as 'Set up Personal Hotspot'. If you have tethering enabled it just gives you a 3rd option as well as USB and bluetooth connect.

So although the phone can do it O2 have decided you need the extra tethering bolt on to do it. And obviously they are going to charge for it, although it is rumoured that o2 are releasing new tarrifs at the end of the month which will include tethering as standard.

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agbert

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Mar 25, 2011 12:54 PM in response to brendan002

Unless we are referring to a specific market. I have been using the hotspot settings in Settings->Personal Hotspot on a Verizon iPhone 4 for quite some time.

This morning the Settings->Personal Hotspot was gone. I changed nothing with my plan, nor with my phone.

Note, as of this writing, Apple/Verizon has not released 4.3 for the verizon iPhone 4.

Thanks for any advice as to why the option might be there one day, and gone the next.

Thanks,
Andrew...

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agbert

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Mar 25, 2011 1:08 PM in response to agbert

For some reason, something did change, not sure what, but whatever.

After several reboots. I found the option appear in Settings->General->Network.

From my perspective, this is resolved...

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