Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot Not Working Under iOS 5

Thanks, it worked for me 🙂

I was almost there, but still missing it for two days. Then your post made me rethink and bingo!

I set my cellular data APN, so Internet was fine on iPad, but I left blank my Internet Tethering APN the first time around. When I set finally set it, now all works like a charm.

So, my tip is CHECK BOTH APN settings!

It seems so obvious now, but it cost me two days to figure it out :-(.

The problem I have with my Iphone 4S is similar. The hotspot is visible when I connect with USB but doesn't show using WIFI. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Same irritating problem after 'upgrading' to OS 5.1.

Suggestion to turn Bluetooth off has worked for me.

So thanks for the 'improvement' Apple,

my fancy headset is now useless when tethering!

I have the same issue with my Iphone 4s, since I upgrade the IOS version to 6.2.1 it wont work even the wi-fi grey blockout still and the bluethooth couldn't identify another devices, I did all the procedures mentioned in other post here but it still wont working yet, please help me, what I can do? 😢 😠

Turning bluetooth off on my 4S (ios 6.1.3) fixed this for me too.

I was too quick to blame it on bluetooth. Turning off bluetooth helped, but my iphone still dropped wifi after an hour or so of use.

I wonder whether this is an overheating issue with the wifi hardware? Maybe turning off bluetooth helps reduce heatbuild up in the phone. I falso ound that cold-soaking my iPhone in the deepfreeze fixed the greyed-out wifi problem, and also meant that personal hotspot kept working for much longer before it dropped the connection.

I am having this issue too. Annoying as I use it a lot.

It still works if I connect it over USB but not over WIFI. It has worked over bluetooth once... but who wants to use that its super slow.

I have a feeling this is due to the latest update.

Now I am not sure if it has been answered but if you uys are in the UK and when you go to

Settings -> General -> Cellular ->

If you find that it says Setup Personal HotSpot, please speak to your provider and request for IPhone Thering service on your account.

Once that is applied, they will tell you to go to

Setting-> Carrier-> turn OFF Automatic and select any other mobile network then what it should be, once selected any other network, it will say NO SERVICE on the top left corner (wait for few minutes) and then select the RIGHT network (your mobile network) and then toggle ON Automatic

Now when you go to

Settings -> General -> Cellular ->

you should find PERSONAL HOTSPOT (toggle button set to OFF), turn it ON and you are golden

The only way I can get my iPad 2 to connect to the personal hotspot of my iPhone 4s is to reset the network settings on both devices, reboot both and go from there.

What's causing this?

Hi everybody

As far as I can tell, turing off the WiFi chipset when it's not used for a while, is an important battery safer technique. Most (older) iPhones therefor automatically stop providing a WiFi connection if it's not used for a while.

In contrast to most users reports, I can get a steady WiFi signal from iPhone 4 Personal Hotspot, if I connect to it via Bluetooth **and** WiFi at the same time: Apparently the Bluetooth connection prevents the iPhone from entering a deeper "sleep mode."

Anyone else getting the same?

Cheers,

M.

For months I was unable to establish a connection using my personal hotspot but this solution from Leighinsydney worked for me:

"I had the same problem after countless times speaking with my network provider and searching around I found that the solution that worked from was to change my my phone name as Apples adds an apostraphe 'to the name for example

joe becomes joe's Iphone

go to settings >> General >> About and take out the apostraphe

Turn hotspot off and back on

hope this works for you as it is very frustrating"

Holy smokes. I have been trying to fix this problem forever and just tried this remove the apostrophie fix and it worked! Thanks!

Yes, this worked for me :v

My Hotsopt over the wifi was working but I changed the name to Assassin's - after that my PC wasn't able to detect the hotspot. After that i changed my name to Assassin - Mystically the Hotspot was discoverable by name of Asssassin not the Assassin's...

Hope try to swap using the xxxx's & xxxx as ur name hopefully that will workout for you :-)