How to set up my hotspot on my iphone

Q: Why cant I set up personal hotspot on my iPhone?

If you cant find or turn on Personal Hotspot, check that your wireless carrier enabled it and that your wireless plan supports it. Restart the iPhone or iPad that provides Personal Hotspot and the other device that needs to connect to Personal Hotspot. Make sure that you have the latest version of iOS or iPadOS.

A Personal Hotspot lets you share the mobile data connection of your iPhone (or iPad) when you don't have access to a Wi-Fi network.

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Set up APN for Personal Hotspot
Set up Personal Hotspot
How do I activate my hotspot?
Why can't I set up personal hotspot on my iPhone?

Set up APN for Personal Hotspot

1. You can view your APN settings in the following location (the name of the menu depends on the language — English (UK) or English (US) — selected on your phone):

Settings > Cellular > Cellular Network
Settings > Mobile Data > Mobile Data Network

2. Scroll to the very bottom until you see Personal hotspot. Add data.be as APN. No username or password is required.

3. Do NOT click on Reset settings. Instead, hit Mobile data on left top to go back. The setting will be saved.

4. Reboot your iPhone.

Set up Personal Hotspot

Once the reboot has been completed, go to Settings > Cellular > Personal Hotspot or Settings > Personal Hotspot. Tap the slider next to Allow Others to Join.

To change your Personal Hotspot password, from the Personal Hotspot screen select Wi-Fi Password. Edit the password as desired, then click Done when finished.

That’s it, now you can use your iPhone to share the Internet connection between your devices!

When a device is connected to the Personal Hotspot, the icon will be displayed in the status bar of your iPhone.