How To Use Your IPhone As A Hotspot

We've all been plagued by cruddy Wi-Fi, whether at the airport, our local coffee shop or even just a friend's house. And while you can always fall back to your cellular connection on your iPhone, the same isn't necessarily true for your laptop or your tablet. Fortunately, you can share your iPhone's cellular connection with your laptop and other electronic devices, turning it into an impromptu wireless hotspot. Note: While some cellular providers don't have any additional charges to use your iPhone as a hotspot, some may. Slide the Personal Hotspot switch to the On position. Keep in mind you won't be able to connect to Wi-Fi networks on your iPhone while this is enabled, and certain features, such as AirDrop, might not function. To set a password for the Wi-Fi network you're creating, tap Wi-Fi Password. Enter a password of at least eight characters. Navigate to wherever you usually connect to Wi-Fi on your laptop, tablet or other connected device. Select the network that has the same name as your iPhone. When prompted, enter the password you chose in step 5. You should now be online. Your iPhone will tell you how many other devices are using your connection. To disable the feature -- and avoid chewing up your data allowance -- tap the blue status bar to return to the Personal Hotspot settings and slide the Personal Hotspot switch to the Off position. Got a question about your iPhone you want answered, Ask our experts in the Tom’s Guide iPhone forums.

Please note that you'll be using data from your mobile network and charges may apply. Scroll to and touch Set Up Personal Hotspot. You can use your Apple iPhone 3GS as a portable Wi-Fi hotspot. This lets you share your phone's Internet connection with other devices via Wi-Fi. Please note that you'll be using data from your mobile network and charges may apply. You can use your Apple iPhone 3GS as a portable Wi-Fi hotspot. This lets you share your phone's Internet connection with other devices via Wi-Fi. Please note that you'll be using data from your mobile network and charges may apply. If Bluetooth is turned off, the phone will prompt you to turn it on. Touch Turn on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. You can use your Apple iPhone 3GS as a portable Wi-Fi hotspot. This lets you share your phone's Internet connection with other devices via Wi-Fi. Please note that you'll be using data from your mobile network and charges may apply. To connect to the iPhone, choose the iPhone's name on the connecting device and enter the password shown on the iPhone.

Sailing in the seven seas is a lot of fun. But sometimes, me fellow pirates and I also miss our friends on land. That’s why our gadgets are very helpful as they keep us buccaneers connected to our lads. We used the gold coins we found on our last treasure hunt to buy our new iPhones. And Yo ho ho! These phones can be used as hotspot. Avast ye, let me tell ye fellows about how you can do it on your device. The iPhone comes with numerous useful features that make it worth buying. One of these features is the ability to convert an iPhone into a personal hotspot. This means that you can wirelessly share your iPhone data plan with other WiFi capable devices. The ability to share Internet connection over WiFi was first introduced in the iPhone 4 as supported by the iOS 4.3 version. The iPhone 3GS was already capable of Internet connection sharing or Internet tethering albeit limitedly via Bluetooth and USB cable connection. It is however through the latest iOS version, the iOS 6, that this feature has been made more easily accessible.



The iOS 6 provides a neat new Personal Hotspot shortcut on the main menu screen so users can quickly turn the feature on or off without having to go deep into the settings and connectivity options. The Personal Hotspot feature is quite easy to use but it requires an active data plan with a tethering option. Mobile phone service companies are quite keen on the usage of their data plans. They only allow Internet tethering or the personal hotspot feature with added fees or through a specific service package. That’s why, to sum it up, you will not only need an iPhone that has Internet tethering capability to make use of the Personal Hotspot feature. You will also need a data plan with tethering to share WiFi Internet access legally. If you have the iOS 4.3 version, ye buckos can set the Personal Hotspot feature by going to the Network tab and opening the General Settings app. You will need to set up your iPhone’s data plan to enable tethering if your plan does not include tethering yet.