iPhone 5 - Personal Hotspot setting not on my phone.

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iPhone 5 - Personal Hotspot setting not on my phone.

I have a iPhone 5 iOS 6.01 on Tesco pay monthly.

I have never had the personal hotspot option anywhere on the phone, not in general settings, the bit at the top or Internet tethering in the cellular options.

I have looked at lots of forums and tried resetting the network settings about 8 times. I don't use the app "Onvao" app thingy. Im just suprised that it's not in any of the settings.

Here are some photos of how its not there.

I am lost to why this has happened and am wondering if there are any steps I can take to rectify this?

Thanks, MrVisneski.

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Nov 17, 2012 9:01 AM

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Answer 1

KiltedTim

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Nov 17, 2012 9:04 AM in response to MrVisneski

You have to be using a supported carrier that supports the Personal Hotspot feature, and you have to subscribe to a data plan that allows tethering.

Do you?

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MrVisneski Author

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Nov 17, 2012 9:06 AM in response to KiltedTim

But wont the setting still be there on the 2nd picture?

Where if I click it it would say like "Personal hotspot not supported" or something it just theres no setting at all.

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AVRHack

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Nov 17, 2012 9:56 AM in response to MrVisneski

No - if the carrier doesn't support it, the UI deletes the option entirely from the phone which is why it won't show up for you.

I have a '3' SIM and an O2 one and if I put in the O2 SIM the option completely disappears just like yours is showing, so your phone is behaving as expected.

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