Personal hotspot problem with IOS 6

I posted on this a while back and applied the fix of resetting my network settings and my ipad hooks up every time to my iPhone 5 via personal hotspot. It has done since I applied the fix. I'm still on 6.0 as I'm waiting for the untether jb this Sunday so if you have the same problem just try resetting all network settings and hopefully you'll be as lucky as I have been. Hope this helps people.

Ok, I gave up the "you never need to reset anything, it just works" -thing. And yes, for the first time ever since zillion iOS upgrades I did reset the network settings. I lost maybe 30 wireless hotspot passwords, but at least client certificates still exist which makes the reset much more tolerable thing. Actually the upgrade path worked overall surprisingly well until these days, considering, I started with iOS4? or even with iOS3 and went all the way to iOS6.1 while also gradually migrating the old setup via backup/restore to new devices and new iOS versions - although maybe it did help to have old and new device always in the same iOS version during the restore from backup.

I tested again Personal Hotspot hosting it with iPad and iPhone 4s via wifi - all clients (iPhone 3s/iOS4.x, iPhone 4 (iOS6.1), iPhone 4s (iOS6.1), iPad 3 (iOS 6.1) again connect very fast without any problems trying with different combinations. Ok course.. I don't know if this is permanent fix, nor if the restart of the devices fixed the issue, like earlier today, or if resetting network settings helped. We'll see along the coming days.

As another quick thing - the iPhone 4 ambient light sensor DOES work still. The changes are just much more subtle compared to iPad/iPhone 4s and the brightness slider doesn't move either in iPhone 4 like with newer devices same way. However I can see definitely difference when unlocking the phone next to light source vs in dark room.

Now, if only the mobiles would stay alive in cold weather without warming them with lighter every now and then I might be actually eehh.. happy? 🙂

-p

I'm glad it helped you out. It's working for me and has done for a few months now without doing any more resets. Tip:- people should make a copy of the wifi passwords and save in notes then you can just get them back easily.

Hello ITSupportGuy,

for now it still seems to be working well (but I'm not using the feature often), just checked this morning and it was ok.

Since my first post, I updated my device (iphone 4) to iOS 6.1, and did a network reset just after the update.

Best regards,

Regis

Just to recap: I am on two devices, My main blackberry 9320 with BES connection and also is my "Home" phone with HK number, and my iPhone 4 on iOS6 which I use at my "work" phone in Macau (which I require to travel and station 1-2 weeks per month) I was living in a happy world until I upgrade to ios6 in October....

Well I updated my iOS, Now is seems more stable, but my blackberry 9320 still cannot connect to BES via Iphone Hotspot automatically (I have to keep refreshing my bb browser to have the constant connection)... Even the iphone wifi will just disappear from time to time on 6.1.2.

My work around to use my blackberry in Macau are 1)Use Macau Company's Lobby Wifi or free public wifi when I'm on site, 2) Ask my colleague who has an Android phone and turn on AndoridAP (which automatically connect to BES)

Anyways no backward comparability of firmware is *****... 5.1.1 was a charm! Well Apple wouldn't care customer like me anymore.... Maybe time to move on???

Check this out guys when you have time: http://t.co/2pUElJ1sOM

I seem to lose http over tcp/ip after 1.5 minutes of connection while udp protocol streams just fine for hours on end.

After exactly 3 minutes, I get tcp/ip back for another 1.5 minutes before it stops for 3 minutes.

Repeats over and over.

Hotspot issues are intermittent on my 4S running IOS 6.0.1. I'm in a shared data plan.

Last week ATT support told me to reset my network settings which worked, but the connection seemed very slow - long time to load basic web pages

Yesterday ATT support reset my phone's SIM on their end (shut down phone, wait 15 seconds, power up). ATT called back a few minutes later after reset. The hotspot worked and is working this morning.

Replaced the phone, used different computers including windows and apple boxes, and still have the same issue.

I believe this is more of an ATT issue but there still is a small chance it is related to IOS6 or later versions.

The only two things that are the same with my issue are ATT and IOS6.

I will get back after running ATT tech support through the ringer.

Thank you for this... resetting Network settings did not work for me, however after doing so and reading your post, I turned Airplane Mode ON then OFF. Now everything works as expected. So for me it was a two step process, one or both of which was required to make it work:

1) Reset Network Settings

2) Turn Airplane Mode On, then Off

Thank you George w.s. Lee

this is exactly what my problem now.

Hotspot is not working by USB and WIfi, but the bluetooth works well. 😟

Please fix this.

Just an update.

I reseted the network setting.

Now I can use the hotspot by Wifi and Bluetooth, but still I cannot do it with the USB.

Phew...

Broke again after the IOS 6.1.1.1 update... starting to think Apple isn't the quality product I thought it was.

Thanks all. I have a IPhone 4 using Verizon wireless and my hotspot worked great on IOS 5. Then through upgrades is just got worse. I'm running 6.1.3 now and I just tried the turn airplane mode on/off and the hotspot came right up. I could connect with my win 7 laptop via wifi with no problem. We'll see how long this works.

Apple please fix. It used to work great.

Hmm...I tried the "Airplane Mode" on/off and that had no effect. Last time, what did work, was to restart the computer after I reset the network settings on my phone, but that solution is no longer working either. Whether or not something works seems like a real crapshoot. I think this is the third time in a week that I'm having to fix it. It works for a day, and then doesn't work.

Fixed mine by going.

Settings

Cellular data

Apn settings

Then copying the information from cellular data and pasting into Internet tethering. Copy apn, password and username.

Badda bing I just made me a hotspot.

I have iPad os6 new retina thingy. Works a treat.