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My iPhone Personal Hotspot is not connecting on my pC laptop. any tricks?

iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 15

Posted on Aug 14, 2022 6:29 PM

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Posted on Aug 14, 2022 7:34 PM

OGJOHNMEYER wrote:

My iPhone Personal Hotspot is not connecting on my pC laptop. any tricks?


Hot spot is a carrier specific feature, if your plan has hot spot capability...


How to set up a Personal Hotspot on your iPhone or iPad


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Aug 14, 2022 7:34 PM in response to OGJOHNMEYER

OGJOHNMEYER wrote:

My iPhone Personal Hotspot is not connecting on my pC laptop. any tricks?


Hot spot is a carrier specific feature, if your plan has hot spot capability...


How to set up a Personal Hotspot on your iPhone or iPad


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Sep 15, 2022 12:29 PM in response to leroydouglas

My plan does have a hot spot feature.


But it's very flaky. Sometimes my laptop will connect right away, though rarely, other times I have to shutdown and restart my phone to get it to connect.


The name of the phone doesn't show on the list of networks, so it's more than a hot spot issue, I guess.

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Oct 11, 2022 7:05 AM in response to Mr. Fazookus

I use iPhone as a hotspot for my Windows PC daily and found it takes many resets and toggling on/off for both iPhone hotspot and PC's wifi before the PC can see the hotspot in the list of wifi networks. Sometimes I just have to walk away in frustration for 20 minutes or so and then come back and try again. There seems problem in the iPhone or its OS since the PC sees all other wifi spots without fail every single time.

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Nov 23, 2022 9:56 AM in response to leroydouglas

If you have a VPN on your iPhone, turn it off, turn on the iPhone hotspot and see if your pc will now connect. I had the same problem. I tried everything I found on the internet for a fix, plus multiple calls to Apple and AT&T (my carrier). Somewhere along the line with upgrading the add on VPN was stopping the iPhone hotspot from connecting to the internet. My pc would show "connected, secure, no internet.

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