iOS 7.1 Personal Hotspot APN settings won't save on iPhone 4

https://twitter.com/SupportIOS/status/448596611820978176

Now let's hope for official confirmation.

hi

iphone 4s 16gb with ios 7.1
Provider: bob Austria

everything works fine.

greetz

According to @SupportiOS the 7.1.1 update should correct this big.

https://twitter.com/supportios/status/448823598737006592

Excellent! 😎

This small issue may not be a threat to you, but i bet that not a single person who are suffering because of your update will neigther buy an iphone nor suggest an iphone to anybody. I am using iphone since so many years and I have also inspired so many people to buy iphone but from today I will not support iphone. I will never recommend iphone. Apple is very rigid company. They are taking care of carriers only not customers those who are using it.

Ahhhh. I just installed T Mobile SIM after OVIVO went bust and I cant access anything!!!

NO phone, no messaging nothing. Cant change APN settings from Vodafone to T Mobile!!!

And this on an unlocked phone....

I am having the same problem with iPhone 4 and iOS 7.1.

My operator is PepePhone, a Spanish Mobile Virtual Network Operator. As an answer to an enquiry about this problem, PepePhone has answered me that they just sell the mobile communication service and that they do not sell mobile phones and hence they do not have any agreement with mobile phone manufacturers.

PepePhone does not say it, but I assume they are not going to sign any agreement with Apple. So, let's be realistic. Either Apple solves the problem or iPhones cannot be used with Mobile Virtual Network Operators anymore.

Same problem. Kazakhstan, KCell, iPhone 4, 16G. F*** I can't do my work!

and silenced by the administrator because i report the abuse of this company who don´t let us choose our carrier, messing with my own job by the way. you know what? i´m happy to be banned... ANDROID!!!!!!!

this is no other thing than a dictatorship!

In Germany, i switched from simyo (e-plus) to congstar (telekom D1) and this solved the problem!

German iphone4 User

Hi bossa,

please don't take my answer as personal..... but I think that your experience actually confirms the problem, doesn't solve it!

I'm happy with my current carrier price and service and don't want to change just because Apple messed-up with their latest iOS update! I'll rather try to switch back to iOS 7.0.x until this will be fixed, btw does anybody know if/how is possible to do that?

K.

Hi Kinsem,

Actually, you cannot switch back to a previous iOS version.

Otherwise, may of us would have done that to overcome this blocking bug.

By the way, I am exactly in your same situation: I don't want to change my carrier just because of an issue with iOS.

Yes, it would be great to be able to downgrade back to 7.0.6. But haven't heard of anyone mentionning any possibility. But I would give a lot to be able to do so.

Does anyone have any clue as to whether that @SupportiOS twitter account is anything serious ? And has anybody got any updated information as to if/when we could expect anything ?

The continued silence of Apple on this subject is quite puzzling. And I really wonder if I will be able to reuse Personal Hotspot someday (only one carrier, so not even possible to change SIM card...) Definitely a productivity collapse there.

I did the OTA update on both an iPhone 5S and an iPad Mini Retina and have noticed the issue. In my case tethering still works because settings were inherited from previous OS versions. I think it is nor really a problem with the tethering functionality itself but rather a user interface bug in the Settings app that does not allow saving the setting after modifying a text field. Therefore, I believe changing the APN settings by adding a settings file through online services like www.unlockit.co.nz might work. I have not tried it though.

no, the unlockit.co.nz method doesn´t work neither, at least in my case. it´s been a deliberate move from apple, not a bug.