iOS has had an issue for years now, where if you lock the screen of the iPhone that using the personal hotspot, it will automatically disconnect for some stupid reason. Android doesn’t have this problem. I think the reasoning is, because iOS and android used to different hotspots. Say I use my sisters, android devices are hotspot, and that never happens when I lock my device. Can Apple use the same Wi-Fi hotspot very because this is really annoying
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I used my phone as hot spot for my PC for around 4 weeks daily for sometimes up to 16 hours non stop because I had a problem with my internet provider. Never had any problems with this and honestly never heard of this by anyone either. Sounds like a you and your brother problem to me.
I have noticed that there is no problem using personal hotspot on when I connect my iPhone to say an android device or Windows computer. But once I connected to other Apple devices.
I carry 2 iphones every day and sometimes I get better signal on one of them, enable personal hotspot and keep browsing.
The real stupid thing is apple shutting down the hotspot when you‘re not connected to your second iphone and the other device is not using the internet for a minute. Like when you make a hotspot for your windows laptop. Go to the bathroom -> reenable the hotspot.
Damn that phone must have been running hot
Turn off low data mode. That’ll stop the disconnecting issues.
2020 se doesn’t happen to me USB or wifi
Funny i had this problem with my huawei when it was locked and far away from computer it just turned off the hotspot
I hotspot to my windows laptop on the weekends when I’m out and about, iPhone is always locked, but my windows laptop is never disconnected
Try connecting bluetooth instead of wifi. Turn on hotspot & bluetooth of phone 1 and bluetooth phone 2. Select to connect to bluetooth of phone 1 from phone 2. This solved it for me, i had this issue too.
I play pokemon go on 2 phones. Stable for 3hrs straight gaming no issue with bluetooth, but with wifi will disconnect occasionally.
I’ve had a similar issue where my hotspot would stop after some time when the phone was new. Somehow it got fixed by itself after some time lol
when i give ppl my hotspot, most of the times its far better than the wifi network. may be because i have a lot of mobile data.
Yes, I hate this. I usually use my iPhone hotspot for work so it’s annoying when I’m randomly doing something on the PC and it just shuts off for no reason.
I have never seen this… including multiple multi-hour sessions where my iPhone was the hotspot for other laptops.
I have never had this issue….
Same
Me either
Same here. I’ve had my hotspot on my laptop all day long with no disconnects, and my phone being locked.
Another thing, can iPhones be connected to a wifi and be used as a hotspot for other devices at the same time? Androids can do it
No but iOS makes sharing WiFi passwords trivially easy.
no, it can’t. That’d require 2-way wifi antenna, which the iphone doesn’t have.
Wut? I’ve never faced that issue, neither with my 6S on iOS 15, nor my 14 Plus on iOS 17. And I use it quite regularly because the sim slot in one of my cars is pooched so I have to hotspot.
Never heard this before.
I’m not sure I understand you completely, since most of your post is incoherent, however, if I get the point right, I believe you either have a defective device or some funky setting, as I have no issue using this function. I used my iPhone hotspot on my car stereo on long journies, obviously my phone screen wasn’t on all the time. I also share with friends from time to time and don’t keep my phone screen on while they’re using my wifi. So it’s definitely not the intentional way of it working.