Just bought the new IPAD and cannot find the option in settings to use it as a personal hotspot, my iphone 4s has the option this is a personal phone, where as I plan to use the IPAD for work with a company supplied sim, but will also require to be able to tether other company non macintosh lap tops.
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As long as your carrier supports it then yes (and it may be extra fee/subscription in order to enable it). I don't have a 4G iPad in order to check, but the manual says that it should appear in Settings > General > Network > Set Up Personal Hotspot
There's no Hotspot option on the 4G iPad, only WiFi and VPN selectors.
The iPad manual says :
With iPad Wi-Fi + 4G models, you can use Personal Hotspot to share an Internet connection with a computer or other device—such as an iPod touch, iPhone, or other iPad—connected to your iPad via Wi-Fi. You can also use Personal Hotspot to share an Internet connection with a computer connected to iPad via Bluetooth or USB. Personal Hotspot works only if iPad is connected to the Internet over the cellular data network.
Note: This feature may not be available in all areas. Additional fees may apply. Contact your carrier for more information.
[shrug] might say that but I'm sitting in front of one and have a hotspot service on my telco account/sim and it will not offer me that option. I can use my iPhone and do the reverse perfectly well however ...
Thanks for the quick reply,
I have inserted my iPhone 4s Vodafone sim card into the New iPad 3 but dont get the hot spot option, when this same sim card is my iphone I readily get the hot spot option in settings between wi-fi and notifications. I have tried Settings>General>Network, but when i get to Network all I get is 2 options:-
1/. VPN - Not Connected, I have had a look around in here bit cannot find anything relating to Hot Spot set up!
2/.Wi-Fi - Which is already set up in my home.
Am I missing something here?
Been busy typing and checking things out did not see the 2 e-mails above, sorry but question still stands I was led to believe this option would be avaiable on the iPad 3 one of the reasons i bought it for work !!!!
Have you contacted your carrier to confirm that they offer the personal hotpsot feature? In the U.S., one major carrier does and the other doesn't.
Thanks Meg St Clair for the reply but as the Hot Spot works on my iphone but not on my ipad using the same Vodafone sim card I must have the feature with this carrier, which brings me back to my same question about my ipad.
Ginny, you really need to call your carrier. As meg points out, this is a carrier controlled feature. In the US, you cannot move a phone sim to a pad without their agreement, and usually some sort of surcharge.
Not necessarily - Vodafone could still chose not to offer it. In the US we can use an AT&T iPhone as a Hotspot, but not an AT&T iPad.
The only way to unlock the hotspot if the carrier has lock it is to follow this :
All you need is the right ipcc file for u're carrier and nation.
iVmichael wrote:
There's no Hotspot option on the 4G iPad, only WiFi and VPN selectors.
Then your carrier does not support iPad hotspot or you did not sign up for their iPad hotspot plan.
IV Michael just wanted to say thanks for your input also, latest is my carrier Vodafone has confirmed that i do have hot Spot with my Sim, hence why I get on my iphone 4s.
Vodafone suggested that I should go into :- Settings> General>Reset in the reset menu!! there is Reset Network Settings, reset network only and let the ipad reboot this has apparently worked in the past and may work for others but not in my case, so I will go down to my local apple Store and speak to them direct.
Thanks again for everones input.
I done it again enterrred a reply then found out there were two more replies!! Luckily my answer adressed both messages, I must be a mind reader.
Thanks again, next time i will refresh before I type.!!!!!
I had the sameproblemI havethree.The onlymethod thatallowsyou to unlockthe hotspotiswhat Iposted above.I tried it andit works.Againthe onlythingyou have tolook for is theVodafoneIPCCfilethat worksin your countryand follow the steps.Evenif you take ittoApplewill notsolve theproblem because it'sa blockofVodafone's carrier configurationon the iPad
Then your carrier does not support iPad hotspot or you did not sign up for their iPad hotspot plan.
As posted: my Telco supports Hotspot, the plan includes it, the iPhone Hotspot function works perfectly ...
I'm well aware that it should work, just posting that for me it currently will not.
Here's an interesting Catch22 question for you:
Some say the Hotspot option is only visible if you turn WiFi Off, but if that's true then how do you then share the service, Bluetooth ?
(Not that I can get this to work either, and I do have a fallback to the iPhone Hotspot, it's just that one plan has 3Gb and the other only 1GB and I'd much prefer to use the iPad)
Wow, a very handy find !
I can confirm this works and restores the (hidden) HotSpot function on Australian iPads, but we really shouldn't have to do this ...
Can the New IPAD 4G be used as a Hot Spot
