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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Turn off low data mode. That’ll stop the disconnecting issues.
Rubbish, I use my hotspot with the screen locked and still in my pocket.
2020 se doesn’t happen to me USB or wifi
I have this issue so much! Especially if my connected devices don’t use mobile data heavy apps, my phone for some reason thinks, that I don’t need internet
I hotspot to my windows laptop on the weekends when I’m out and about, iPhone is always locked, but my windows laptop is never disconnected
I have never had this issue….
Same here. I’ve had my hotspot on my laptop all day long with no disconnects, and my phone being locked.
Me either
Same
Funny i had this problem with my huawei when it was locked and far away from computer it just turned off the hotspot
Wut? I’ve never faced that issue, neither with my 6S on iOS 15, nor my 14 Plus on iOS 17. And I use it quite regularly because the sim slot in one of my cars is pooched so I have to hotspot.
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 but iOS makes sharing WiFi passwords trivially easy.
no, it can’t. That’d require 2-way wifi antenna, which the iphone doesn’t have.
Never heard this before.
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.
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.
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.
Damn that phone must have been running hot