Q: Why does my iPad connect to my iPhone personal hotspot even though I turned the hotspot off?
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Oct 22, 2016 6:30 PMby ADAMdotK,It's called Instant Hotspot. I believe it works only for the devices sharing the same Apple ID.
For more info, go here Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch - Apple Support and find Instant Hotspot.
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Oct 22, 2016 6:44 PMby Doug Lerner2,Looking at the info page (Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch - Apple Support), it does say that the personal hotspot being on is a pre-condition for "instant hotspot." So something is wrong.
I just did a forced restart of my iPhone after making sure the personal hotspot settings are turned off.
However, after that "Doug's iPhone 6 Plus" still appears in my iPad's list of wi-fi and if I select it my iPhone's Personal Hotspot gets turned on and the iPad connects.
I really want to avoid "reset all settings" if at all possible. The last time I did that it took me two weeks until I found all the settings which needed to be set up again, and doing that didn't solve the problem at that time.
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Oct 22, 2016 6:45 PMby ADAMdotK,the personal hotspot and the Instant Hotspot work differently guys.
"With Instant Hotspot, the Personal Hotspot on your iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) can provide Internet access to a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch without requiring you to enter the password on those devices."
Your Mac/iPad/iPhone or iPod touch will not connect automatically with Instant Hotspot.
However, when you do want to connect you don't have to set up anything on the sharing device. Nor to turn the personal hotspot on. Just browse for available wifi networks on the device that needs the internet access and you will find all instant hotspots available. provided these devices use the same Apple ID.
As long as the device that you want to use as a hotspot has the wifi and Bluetooth turned on, you can use Instant Hotspot.
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Oct 22, 2016 6:48 PMby Doug Lerner2,But at
Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch - Apple Support
it says to use Instant Hotspot that a condition is:
"Your iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) has Personal Hotspot turned on in Settings > Cellular > Personal Hotspot."
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Oct 22, 2016 6:51 PMby Demo,I Know that resetting all settings is PITA. Try turning off Bluetooth, then turn off Personal Hotspost and it should not turn back on by itself. I have used the Personal Hotspot in the past but never used Instant Hotspot.
Yes, I realize that.
the personal hotspot and the Instant Hotspot work differently guys.
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Oct 22, 2016 7:04 PMby ADAMdotK,It actually says that you need to do that to Set it up, not to use.
In that case I don't know if it's a bug or not but I can tell you this:
My mac can turn on the hotspot on my iPhone even when it's turned off.
When my wifi and Bluetooth are on on both devices the only thing I need to do is to find my iPhone in the list of available wifi networks on my mac. That's it. I always thought that's a cool feature, it never bugged me.
Honestly I don't know at this point if it's meant to work like that or not.
I found this in settings. have never read it before, actually. But I believe that the last sentence clears everything up.
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Oct 22, 2016 7:04 PMby Demo,ADAMdotK wrote:
It actually says that you need to do that to Set it up, not to use.
In that case I don't know if it's a bug or not but I can tell you this:
My mac can turn on the hotspot on my iPhone even when it's turned off.
No bug. After experimenting, I believe that you are correct. My point is that if you turn Bluetooth off, then you can't make the connection at all. If you need to use Bluetooth, then that's a different story.
