Can i use the personal hotspot on my iphone without switchin on my cellular data ?

I wanted to do this on a Southwest flight today. They charge $8 per device to connect to the plane's wifi. I wanted to connect my iPhone so I could use iMessage and a couple apps, but also use the same connection for my PC, so I wouldn't have to spent $8 twice.

Every way I tried didn't work, so I just spent an extra $8.

That's one reason why someone might want to use their iPhone to hotspot their laptop to Wi-Fi vs. 4G.

So, what's the best way to do this? That is connect an iPhone, Windows 10 PC, and maybe my wife's iPad 4G to a single Wi-Fi connection?

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For you Mac guys, I do have a MacBook Pro, too. We use Office Business Suite 2016, especially Outlook and Exchange for our email server, for business. When the Mac version of Office comes anywhere close to the PC version, I'll consider using my Mac for business, too.

And... I did dual boot via Boot Camp for a couple years. My newer Dell Inspirons are the same horsepower for about 2/3 the price of a new MacBook Pro.

I completely digressed off topic. Just saying, I'm as big a fan of Macs as about most people. It's not the right tool for every application.

So Apple decides how to use hotspot. This feature

and control I miss from Android. The iPhone doesn't

even show its consuming from mobile connection

to feed my laptop. My iPhone is connected to wifi

but my hotspot using cellular wow what an idea

and transparency.

A hotspot on the phone shares the cellular connection on the phone with other devices connected to the phone using wifi.

Dunno why that's difficult...

DMFD305 wrote:

This is not my post, but instead of all the snide remarks would have been better to give a straight answer

Yeah, this was accomplished in the very first response.

Use personal hotspot to create a wired network connection between ipad and PC. In such a way, you can use teamviewer for ipad to act as secondary monitor of pc.