Re: iOS 6 Missing Personal Hotspot

dont worry...i got it...thank you guys

YES!!!! This worked. I have been asking about this with Apple and AT&T for a month. They were clueless.

I called AT&T and had them change my data plan and then changed it back and.... Pow. The ability to turn on or off my personal hot spot was back.!!

Thanks for the help!!

I dont think Onavo is the problem . I have an iPhone 5 and if I turn Cellular Data off in Settings> General>Cellular it is greyed out but if I turn it back on again it reapearrs as normal I think if you stop the data coming int the phone thats when the problem arrises. I too have Onavo Extend and Onavo Count installed.

None of these "settings" solutions works for me. What I am getting from this thread is that the solution appears to mostly be a function of the carrier now. That's a foul! Personal hotspot is a feature with my phone. It has nothing to do with any one else. If I want to use up my plan using 5 of my devices, it's no one's business but my own. Another case of Apple screwing up something with an update that used to work fine.

Hi, I have an Iphone5 upgraged to 6.0.1 and went to use my hotspot and it just up and disappeared. Reading your post I went looking in settings->general and there is no Profile section on my phone. I opened up cellular in settings general and there in the bottom was the hotspot selection feature. I tried it out and it works. In closing I would question what is going on with Apple products. Phantom changes to my phone makes me suspicious.

Imagine that, upon returning to Settings page after testing hotspot feature found in the cellular section, the hotspot feature was again showing on the main settings page below bluetooth. Go figure?

i dont found profiles in general . can you plz tell me exectly where it is ???

i have same proplem in ios6..in iphone 4s

regard!

I'm in the UK so things may be different, there is certainly no Onavo component to the problem in my case. After reading various posts I went into Settings-General-Cellular-Cellular Data, turned that off and on again and hey presto, my missing personal hotspot came back. Odd. But simple.

I have tried it all, including including navigating through to cellular data and the personal hotspot option just keep circling on and on and on.

Sure restoring the phone works for a day or so then everything is back to uselessness !

Apple give me my iOS 5 back. I liked it and did not want 6, but you convinced me my phone was showing the battery usage incorrectly and upgraded my iOS. It was the battery in the end after all and now I have no hotspot!

Removing the certificate fixed my issue also. In mine, I did not have the ONAVO certificate, but had one for my local network WiFi. But I deleted it, then the Personal Hotspot reappeared in the main Settings panel, 4th from the top right under 'Bluetooth'.

Kudos to Silvio

My issue is fixed , without going back to iOS 5!

My phone required carrier settings for tethering so that the hotspot option would reappear in settings. The setting was within Settings > General > Cellular > Cellular data network > Internet tethering

Just for clarity I could always see personal hotspot under cellular but it was not accessible to me as the phone was just showing the moving circle like it was trying to load it without success.

my devices is 4s to n already upgrade to ios6.after upgrade to ios6,my personal hotspot missing to.try to reset your network setting,than after that u can find your personal hotspot in general-cellular-personal hotspot

Personal Hotspot and Internet Tethering is an option provided by the carrier. Generally it is a part of your plan however sometimes it won't be and that is entirely up to the carrier. While it is a feature of the phone, it must be enabled in advance before the feature will be displayed.

Sure the error came to be with iOS 6.0, but as with any operating system, the people who provide services that use that operating system must provide the support for it. Think of a video game you might own on Windows XP, then Windows Vista comes out and you install it, you then try to use that same video game however it doesn't work on Vista because of how the software works. Who do you blame? Do you blame Microsoft for releasing a new OS with new features? Or do you blame the video game producer who hasn't yet supplied an update that supports Windows Vista?

Kn9. Your suggestion was the answer! Thanks much!

Good day sir. I have a new Iphone 5 with updated IO6 6.0.2 as a graduation gift from my father which was bought in California last December 2012. My problem is i cannot enable the Personal Hotspot's menu Set Up Personal Hotspot in my phone. Cellular Data, Enable 3G, and Data Roaming are already enabled but this "Set Up Personal Hotspot" menu is not active.... it just appear on the phone... please help... thanks in advance for your kind help..

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