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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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, it can’t. That’d require 2-way wifi antenna, which the iphone doesn’t have.
No but iOS makes sharing WiFi passwords trivially easy.
I’ve had the same issue, the Hotspot is unstable sometimes it just won’t connect. Has been the most annoying part but lately it’s been okay.
100000% agree. You can keep hotspot on and visible at all times, so any device can join in, not only Apple devices that are under the same Apple account or family members, some can be scheduled to turn off after an x amount of time, some can even act as a router depending on hardware and root access.
Years ago when I used to jailbreak, there were tools to make similar functions for iPhone, but I don’t touch jailbreak for more than a decade now.
I know many don’t have this issue, but a lot of people do. Just a quick look at Apple forums and you can see “my hotspot stops when screen is locked” types of post.
I do wish it would be similar on how it’s done in Android.
Personal hotspot doesn’t disconnect because locked screen but rather if there is no network traffic I think.
Im pretty sure it’s not about locking the screen but could be wrong.
But there is different problem that probably not much people recognized.
You can’t simply run hotspot and click power button to off the screen.
Hotspot is only visible to devices when you STAY on Hotspot settings for few seconds before second device connects to it.
This is kinda annoying.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.
A bit hard to understand you but no iOS does not disconnect all the devices when you lock the phone. I often use hotspot because the internet at work is shit. My phone does not have to be unlock all day, that would be stupid.
I think iOS does disconnect the device if there is no network activity after a certain time but I am not very sure about this. Correct me if I am wrong.
Yes, but when I accidentally hit the side button on my iPhone SE instantly got disconnected so it’s not got anything to do with the network traffic
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.
Damn that phone must have been running hot
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.
Never had that issue.
Never had that issue and using it all the time for years.
I do have this issue constantly.
Is this the same people that posted the fake 12% battery health post?
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
This only occurs when no one is connected to the hotspot.
Never had this issue. I use my hot spot a lot.
Connect to it with android tablets, iPads, windows PC, other iPhones. I set up the hot spot, lock my phone and lay it on the table.