Can I use Personal Hotspot without a password?

In iOS, this is not possible, as this discussion has pointed out several times.

Share your Internet connection with Personal Hotspot - Apple Support

No, in iOS you cannot use wifi hotspot connections without a password.

You also mention iPhone 7, but there is no such device. Since Apple just released the 6s and 6s+, and going by their previous iPhone releases, any new models most likely won't be announced until next fall.

restaurantpattybob wrote:

Maybe I should buy a different device then... What I mean by iPhone 7 is that when such a device is released after some time, I'll probably be buying it, but then if it won't let me tether without a password (the idea is immediately turning the hotspot off when someone I don't know connects to it just to be safe) I'll probably buy something else.

Sorry, but that makes no logical sense. Why not just use the password so you have an encrypted wifi hotspot if you care at all about security? If you're security model is to sit and monitor, in real time, all connections, then it's pointless to even use a hotspot for connectivity. Not to mention if someone wants to connect to an unsecured node for packet sniffing, they may only need all of a very short time to steal some important password or other private information, so you'd really have to be monitoring connections in real time.

It just makes no sense to run any unsecured network and then mention your concerned about security in the same sentence? And I'd point out, on your connecting devices, you only have to enter the password once. After that they will remember it (if left unchanged in the hotspot hosting device) and just auto connect when you enable and then select the network.

Of course, it's your choice, but I know I would never run a home or my own hotspot node without securing it. We live in an age where information theft is rampant and growing. On an unsecured wifi network, it's also trivially easy to capture network traffic.

See also the answers given you here:

Is there a way to remove the Personal Hotspot Wi-Fi password?

restaurantpattybob wrote:

(the idea is immediately turning the hotspot off when someone I don't know connects to it just to be safe)

"Immediately" is too late. It takes only milliseconds to capture a packet stream. Plus the fact that if someone was using a packet sniffer they could use it for hours and you would never know, because it would not be necessary for them to actually connect to monitor your data.

restaurantpattybob wrote:

I was continually monitoring and turning the hotspot off as soon as I can on my Samsung Galaxy S4, but do you mean there is really no option to use Personal Hotspot without a password?

Sure, but without a password its not a 'Personal' hotspot, it's anybody's hotspot.

restaurantpattybob wrote:

I was continually monitoring and turning the hotspot off as soon as I can on my Samsung Galaxy S4, but do you mean there is really no option to use Personal Hotspot without a password?

But you have no idea how many hackers sampled your data before you turned the hotspot off. And the number was almost certainly greater than zero. How do you monitor continuously if you are actually using the hotspot? Do you have more than 2 independent eyes?

restaurantpattybob wrote:

I was continually monitoring and turning the hotspot off as soon as I can on my Samsung Galaxy S4, but do you mean there is really no option to use Personal Hotspot without a password?

To me that sounds like leaving your front door unlocked and wide open and saying you'll slam it shut and lock it as soon as you see some goon walking through it. Pointless and wholly UNsecure. Reacting to a security breach after it has occurred gains you nothing - the damage is already done.

Just curious, why would you not want to use a password? Authorized devices would remember the password when you connect, so it would be a one-time entry.

Based on the OP's posting history, I suspect we are being trolled repeatedly.

restaurantpattybob wrote:

Maybe I should buy a different device then...

Absolutely. All you've done here on the forum is whine about decisions made by Apple.

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