Contact your phone company, or log into your phone company account online, to see if you already have Personal Hotspot or if you need to add it.
Checking with your phone company is definitely one way. But probably the easiest way is to check on your iPhone by following these steps:. Tap the Settings app to open it.
Scroll down to the Personal Hotspot section. The simple presence of this option should indicate that you have Personal Hotspot on your phone, but continue to the next step to be totally sure. Tap Personal Hotspot. If the next screen has a slider whether it's set to on or off , Personal Hotspot is available to you. In most cases, Personal Hotspot itself doesn't cost anything.
Generally speaking, you just pay for the data used by it along with all of your other data use. This all depends on what monthly plan you have and what phone company you use. If you've got an unlimited data plan, Personal Hotspot is almost definitely included.
Good news: unlimited data plans that support tethering are back! For a few years after the debut of the iPhone, unlimited monthly plans were common. Then phone companies changed to plans that capped the amount of data that any one person could use and charged people more for exceeding those caps. In those situations, you often had to choose between having tethering or unlimited data.
These days, phone companies are offering unlimited data plans that include tethering. These plans still have caps, but not the same kind. The difference is that, when you exceed the cap, your data speeds — including tethering — are drastically slowed until the next month.
All the data used by devices tethered to your iPhone over Personal Hotspot counts against your monthly data limit. This means you'll want to keep a close eye on your data use and ask people tethered to you not to do data-intensive things like streaming movies. To learn how to use Personal Hotspot on your iPhone, check out these articles:. When a device is connected to the web via tethering, your iPhone displays a blue bar at the top of the screen on most models that reads Personal Hotspot and shows how many devices are connected to it.
After you connect your iPhone to your computer via USB, it will sync unless you've disabled automatic syncing. If you prefer, you can then eject the iPhone by clicking the arrow buttons next to it in iTunes without losing your connection to the Internet.
Every iPhone Personal Hotspot is given a randomized, default password that other devices have to have in order to connect. You can change that default password if you prefer.
Usually, the name of your iPhone is something like "Sam's iPhone" and that's what people look for when they try to connect to your Personal Hotspot. If you use your Hotspot in public a lot, you may want to change the name to something more fun or less personally identifying. There are lots of reasons Personal Hotspot might stop working on your iPhone. Some of them are minor and easy to fix, others are complicated and require a number of steps.
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Then verify the Wi-Fi password and name of the phone. Then tap the Wi-Fi network to join. If asked, enter the password for your Personal Hotspot. Then on your Mac or PC, follow the manufacturer directions to set up a Bluetooth network connection. Learn more about using Personal Hotspot with Bluetooth. To connect another iOS device, use Wi-Fi.
Make sure that you have the latest version of iTunes on your Mac or PC.
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