Cannot turn off personal hotspot

I realize this is an old post and you may already know this by now but, when you create a family share, you control what the kids can purchase and download. My kids love this idea because we put iTunes gift cards in their accounts and they can decide what they spend it on. I have three children and when they want to purchase an app, music (we have apple music but, my daughter makes lots of videos and has to have downloaded non-drm music) or in-app purchase, they choose the same way we do to purchase it. At that point, my wife and I (since we are the "parents") get a notification that the child (notified by name) would like to purchase [name of app/in-app purchase] for $$$. At that point, we can choose yes or no. It's actually a great system because it allows us to control what the kids are downloading the same way that we could if they were to bring the phone to us and ask us to download it in-hand. It prompts the "parents" the same way for free apps as well. If you already know about this then disregard. 🙂

Same issue here, new iPad Mini 2 & iPhone 6s Plus. Drove me nuts, solution that worked for me after trying everything here. Signed out of iCloud on the iPad, then signed back in, that pesky Hotspot was gone.

Cheers

Simon Murray wrote:

Meg thank you - I've been trying for a couple of weeks now to figure out why one of our iPhones appears as a hotspot on my iPad Air and the other doesn't. Finally I find out why! One iPhone shares an AppleID with the iPad - the other iPhone has a different one. Simple when you know how !!

Many thanks and regards

Simon

Glad it helped!

Why this feature is commonly considered an issue ???? I was looking for a way to reactivate it, since it seems not to work anymore with iOS 10. I have always appreciated this option: to access the personal hotspot of my iPad (where the internet connection is much netter due to a different provicer) without getting the iPad off my bag, unlocking, opening the settings / personal hotspot and switching it on. When I don't need it, nobody can see the hotspot. So its a feature, not a bug when I can turn on personal hotspot from a trusted device. Thanks to all who complained for driving Apple to remove this feature 😐

It is not an option if you use the Apple recommended feature of one Apple ID for all your devices, so in case one or more devices are stolen, you have one convenient Apple ID for all your devices to log in to for remote locking. If I turn off Bluetooth on my phone, I loose connectivity to my Apple Watch. If I turn off Bluetooth on my iPad, I loose the ability to use my keyboard. If I create a special Apple ID for my iPad, then I have a bunch of separate umbrellas that are kind of linked, but not really conveniently. If Apple really wanted this as an option, they would give us the ability to opt in or out of the Instant Hotspot feature. As far as I can tell, it has not been eliminated. My iPhone 6S is running iOS 10.1.1 and my iPad Mini 2 is running the public beta of iOS 10.2. When I lose my Wi-Fi, Instant Hotspot kicks in and turns on without my consent. It just happened tonight.

Just a little background info: My iPad Mini 2 is on my phone's data contract with my phone company, so it shares my iPhone data, whether I use the iPad's built in cell modem or hotspot with my iPhone. I can turn off my iPad's cell modem and turn on Wi-Fi so that my iPad does not use any cell data from my plan, though I can not prevent my iPad from auto enabling the "Instant Hotspot" feature of my iPhone, so it can still use my data without my approval. Somebody at Apple clearly wasn't thinking when they designed Instant Hotspot.

Thanks for the insight about 'bluetooth.' Once I turned bluetooth "Off", the Personal Hotspot disappeared. For good measure, I turned "Off" (or tried, are they really "Off"?) all iCloud access on the iPhone with the exception of "Find My iPhone."

Any feature that lies about an "Off" state that can be turned on without my knowledge is neither professional nor production ready. Sounds like just the kind of toy the "Blackhat" convention should play with.

Bob Wilson, Huntsville, AL

The ONLY way it can be turned on is by another device sharing your Apple ID. So if you don't share your Apple ID it isn't an issue. Apple IDs are personal; they are not intended to be shared. All sorts of other bad things can happen if you share an Apple ID.

It appears that this is a new design feature for the latest releases called Instant HotSpot. I'm not sure I like it either.

Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

nicastm wrote:

they should give us the ability to turn the Personal Hotspot completely instead of disabling your iCloud account.

So, tell Apple that:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Apple recommends using your AppleID across your personal devices, iPhone, iPad, MacOS, since this how Continuity and Handoff works.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681

Turn off the personal hotspot on devices on the same account. Turn off mobile data on all devices. Then turn off Bluetooth on all devices before turn off the devices altogether and turning them back on. Just reset mine this way and it works

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Try dis-connect any connected devices before turning off the hotspot. If that does not work try restarting your iPhone.

Unless you are connected to and using the iPhone hotspot it is not going to make your iPhone hot nor drain your battery.