This is happening Samantha members who use hotspot, so I can use their hotspot, this also happens whilst I’m using my support workers hotspots. Sometimes, I will either have my phone locked on hotspot, randomly, disconnect automatically, without any reason at all. Regardless of devices are connected or disconnected. This is annoying and I see no way to stop this on iOS. This doesn’t happen on android, can somebody help me see if there’s any way to solve this non-problem. This is been happening for a few years now
By Dominic, 10 September, 2023
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iOS and iPadOS
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Longstanding problem
This is just another one of iOS' longstanding problems. There's no real way to get around it, other than leaving your phone turned on and showing the personal hotspot settings screen.
I have no issue once connected
Once connected I have no issue. Maybe if you have a secondary device have someone help you fill out a bug report. After all you don't want it filled with errors.
Situational work-around
If you do not need to physically hold your device that is running the Hotspot, you can do the following:
1. Enable the Hotspot.
2. Plug in the device.
3. Turn the Screen timeout to "never" (under Display settings).
4. Enable Screen Curtain (triple tap the screen with 3 fingers).
5. Pu the device down somewhere an walk away.
As stated above, this is a long standing issue with iOS.
HTH. 🤷🏻♂️
This is absolutely unacceptable
How are Apple does not have the honesty to fix this issue is outrageous. It is absolutely disgraceful Apple hasn’t fix this. Also, the people who are use personal hotspot with Aj all sorted most of the time so screen curtain isn’t an option.
No issues
iPad 9, iPhone 13 pro. Did not had it in the past or now. Go apple long live the apple.
Just a note
For those of you who don't experience the issue, are your Apple devices on the same iCloud account? If so, that explains it, because personal hotspot works differently when the devices share an account, or are connected through family sharing.
When devices don't share an account, what eventually happens is that the iPhone acting as a hotspot stops broadcasting its SSID. Once that happens, and if the connection falters at all, it won't be reestablished.
Devices that share an account don't rely on SSID broadcasts to discover each other, so are unaffected by Apple's absurd power saving measures.