How do I find out who is connected to my personal hotspot on iPhone

You believe you have absolute control over your Wifi key, the key you publish every time you turn on your wifi, albeit with a barely relevant level of encryption?

Interesting you feel that way with your condescending responses. If you truly do have such a blase view of your security, then I wish you good luck, but zero sympathy, on the day you find you have been hacked and personal life messed up.

It's not exactly difficult to discover wifi keys, script kiddy tools are readily available to enable even tech amateurs to decrypt your key.

A simple and very valid question was asked, one which would easily be resolved with an extremely basic feature from Apple.

BeatsMe2017 wrote:

You believe you have absolute control over your Wifi key, the key you publish every time you turn on your wifi, albeit with a barely relevant level of encryption?

Last I checked, the personal hotspot feature was using WPA2-PSK encryption.

Bazzzzzinga wrote:

Imagine a world where Apple build basic functionality into their OS and you don't have to download an app to do even the simplest of things.....

I can imagine it would be an incredibly dull world, where you could only do things the way Apple decided you should. The whole point of an app store is to allow dozens to hundreds of different ways to do the same thing.

But what does your post have to do with who is using your personal hotspot?

Bazzzzzinga wrote:

It seems like a basic feature that should be included without having to download an app to do so.

I disagree; I don't see it as a basic feature. iCloud accounts are personal. So I know that any device that connects to my hotspot automatically is a device of MINE. No one else can connect to it unless I give them the password. Since I gave them the password I know who they are. If you truly need this capability then it's reasonable to get a 3rd party app to meet your need. I certainly don't want Apple to use some of my valuable storage for a function I will never use.

BeatsMe2017 wrote:

What does your 'iCloud' account have to do with connecting to a wifi hotspot, are they now suddenly combined in some way by Apple?

You might have more context if you read the thread from the beginning. The only devices that can connect to your personal hotspot without the password are devices logged into the same Apple ID. So, yes, there is a connection. Anyone else would need to have been given the passcode in order to connect to your personal hotspot.

The iCloud account and the connection to the hotspot are separate and distinct. The iCloud account does indeed pass information to other connected iCloud devices (if enabled), however, the thread is about connections to the hotspot, not connections to your iCloud account.

Define "shows connections." Exactly what do you see? No device can connect to your iPhone hotspot without entering the correct password on each device.

You apparently know nothing about it.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

You apparently know nothing about it.

Thanks for the confirmation.

I was hoping you'd see that and weigh in.

Which is shared in the handshake. As previously mentioned, there are many tools and instruction readily available with a basic search to assist you in discovering that shared key.

I repeat, you know nothing about it. It would take hours to explain why you know nothing about it, so I'm not going to bother.

Repeat till your hearts content Larry, I would strongly disagree.

BeatsMe2017 wrote:

Repeat till your hearts content Larry, I would strongly disagree.

You are entitled to your own opinion. It does not, however, change facts.

guest_user wrote:

People like lawrence finch shouldn't be allowed in discussions.

Thank you for a post that made me laugh out loud!

Imagine a world where Apple build basic functionality into their OS and you don't have to download an app to do even the simplest of things.....