iOS 8.1 wifi hotspot - can't connect anymore.

The solution has been posted at Re: Instant Hotspot / Personal Hotspot Not Functioning Correctly

the solution makes a lot of sense for me since now I think that I understand why when we you access the hotspot it doesn't ask you for password, that authentication is done at the icloud level.

Thanks again

Fred

Impossible according to me because, to access to the iCloud in order to retrieve the wifi password, you must first be connected to the wifi

The wifi password is asked before connecting to the iCloud

In order the hotspot to work, all the device must be linked to the same icloud account (you can check this in your icloud account and look for all the devices attached to your account). All this configuration, is pass to the devices back and keep there. Part of that configuration allows one device recognize the others via bluetooth, if the device that want to get access to the hotspot is recognize as "trust" device the hotspot is display otherwise, the hotspot "could" no (necessary it will ) display as another regular wifi signal available where in that case in order to access you will need to provide the password for the hotspot.

Hence, what happen when you upgraded to ios 8.1, the name of the device changed (at least that happen to me) from my previous name to "iPhone", at this point you device is not recognize for your hotspot.

Fred

iOS 8.0 and 8.1 on my iPhone 5 and iPad 3 drop wifi when I'm not using my devices. when i log into my devices i have to go to settings to hook up to my wifi. and it has everything to do with 8.0 & 8.1. my apple tv, 3 iPods 6.1's and 2 androids all keep wifi.

Count me in as well. Upgraded to 8.1 in the hopes that it would better connect to my iPhone 5s Hotspot, but no luck. Seems sporadic if it will connect. I have best chance if I use no security or WEP, but WPA2 doesn't seem to ever want to connect. Which ***** because my tablet will only seem to connect to WPA2 and no security, so if I want security, I have to bounce back and forth between WPA2 and WEP depending on the device I'm using. Had hoped 8.1 fixed this, but Apple can't seem to get this right in any release. I've tried resetting network connections, etc. But will randomly connect as I was saying. Can't find any rhyme or reason as to why it connects one time, and not another. Especially when I didn't even bounce from one security to the next.

+1. After receiving my phone 1 day ago and installing iOS 8.1, it stopped connecting to my home wifi after 6 hours. Since then, it won't connect to my home wifi anymore. Have tried all the reset methods but none have worked. All my computers, androids and tablet (ios7) have no issue and is connected to wifi.

so for your witi issues, one major issue many devices have on wireless n is the channel width set to (auto). The problem is often the devices connect and thrn drop later as the router adjusts. I would suggest setting your wireless N channel width to 20mhz. All my devices including my apple devices on n behave well since i did this a year ago.

I updated Air, 5S and 6, and now all of them are fcked...can't connect to home wifi and keeps saying wrong wifi passcode. When I come close to the router they connected. Apple really fuc.k this update. Believe me I reset all network setting for phone ipad router and shtt.

Hey, I'm not sure if this will work for yall but it's worth a try if you haven't already. After upgrading to iOS 8.1, my phone wouldn't connect to my router anymore. I ended up changing my password to a new password for my router and reconnected to my wifi router using the new password and I've had no problems since.

but this is not working budyy tried 3 to 4 times all the steps but nothing happen the wifi still continuously drops in and out

iPad 2 and iPhone5s both lost WiFi with iOS 8.1. Both were fine on 8.0.2!

Fixed by deleting WiFi network from Apple Airport, rebooting the Airport, then re-creating network with same name and password as before.

HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AFTER UPGRADING MY iphone 5 To Ios 8.1 at first Hotspot option

was gone but when the option was back i cant access the hotspot through my computer!!!

worked perfectly before IOS 8.1 !!! Hope Apple Finds a solution!!! ASAP!!!

Same issue here. First I thought it has something to do with my home wifi network. I have Devolo WiFi through my house with Fritz!box cable router (Kabel Deutschland).

All devices work fine excepts all iOS 8.1.1 devices.

Please Apple this is really not the best way to treat your customers. The 8.1.1 update does not solve the problem at all.

I Do agree. Same thing happened to my iphone 5s right now. Cant connect to my laptop or other devices as a hotspot after upgrading to ios 8.1, i think ios 8,1 is a con, so older iphone users will be forced to buy or upgrade their iphones to iphone 6 & 6+, which is in fact a copycat of samsung devices.

I had the same issue after upgrading to 8.1 however, Click the "Forget This Network" button on the device that is connecting as the HotSpot password had changed on mine.