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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i had the same issues with my xs max but with my 15 plus not anymore
Happens quite often on my 11 pro, no issue with my 15 pro. Probably due to 11 pro having a shitty intel modem
iOS 16.7.2 here and unless my hotspot is actively in use at all times, it will disconnect any and all devices connected to it after approx 5-10 minutes of standby. Irks me to no end. Activate a family member’s Android hotspot and it’ll stay on until we deactivate it.
Also struggle to get any of my ereaders to connect to my hotspot, even when “maximize…” is on. What a hot mess Apple, do better!
Personal hotspot doesn’t disconnect because locked screen but rather if there is no network traffic I think.
Im pretty sure it’s not about locking the screen but could be wrong.
But there is different problem that probably not much people recognized.
You can’t simply run hotspot and click power button to off the screen.
Hotspot is only visible to devices when you STAY on Hotspot settings for few seconds before second device connects to it.
This is kinda annoying.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.
I have never had this issue….
Me either
Same here. I’ve had my hotspot on my laptop all day long with no disconnects, and my phone being locked.
Same
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, it can’t. That’d require 2-way wifi antenna, which the iphone doesn’t have.
No but iOS makes sharing WiFi passwords trivially easy.
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.
Never heard this before.
I’m not sure I understand you completely, since most of your post is incoherent, however, if I get the point right, I believe you either have a defective device or some funky setting, as I have no issue using this function. I used my iPhone hotspot on my car stereo on long journies, obviously my phone screen wasn’t on all the time. I also share with friends from time to time and don’t keep my phone screen on while they’re using my wifi. So it’s definitely not the intentional way of it working.
Never experienced this before either
I’m going to clear up something, because I don’t think my post was clear enough, so after amount of time not specified by the user regardless if you have low data mode, enabled or disabled, it automatically turns off the hotspot, regardless of how much battery you have, regardless of your mobile signal, regardless of what mobile plan you’re using regardless of what service provide you using regardless of what iOS version you’re using, regardless of what iPhone or iPad you’re using Regardless of what security settings you have and it’s affected me, using an iPhone 6s Plus and my cousin using an iPhone 14 and iPhone 11 and an iPhone 8 and it’s really frustrating to have this problem as it means me a visually impaired person having to go to her individual just to make her turn on the personal hotspot again. This doesn’t happen on android is android has a setting in mobile hotspot to allow devices to stay connected for as long as possible so say if my iPhone 5 like even though I don’t have one but this is just an example so my galaxy S 24 ultra is using is using a hotspot from an iPhone 6 ultra promax and then like 10 2030 minutes later, the hotspot gets disconnected, but yet on the flipside, when I use my galaxy as a hotspot, it doesn’t disconnect The iPhone
I’m just saying I’ve never replicated your situation with a few devices and iOS releases.
I know what you’re saying though, I often have to go to my hotspot settings and remind the iPhone that it should be available, even though my settings are set as such. My son will have to ask me to do it whenever he wants to join from his iPad.
“I’m going to clear up something” - Proceeds to write a few run on sentences that are even more confusing than the original post.
I’ve not seen reports of this bug and I’ve never experienced it. I’ve run basically every beta since iOS 13, had every generation since the iPhone 7, and I have my own iPads plus all of my kid’s iPads across a couple of generations and I’ve never experienced it disconnecting when the screen becomes locked.
I’ve had it where they couldn’t see the network if I lock before they’ve connected, but once they’ve connected I’ve never seen disconnects just because the screen is locked.
I would be royally irritated if I did experience it though. Have you tried erasing everything and setting the phone up as new and hotspotting? Maybe there’s a small bug somewhere in your backup causing the issue that a restore carries over?
Did you have the iPhone on low power mode? I ‘believe’ that maybe disconnects it if you lock the screen. At least it used to.
No
when i give ppl my hotspot, most of the times its far better than the wifi network. may be because i have a lot of mobile data.
I understand your issue and I face it on daily basis. Whenever a device is connected to an iPhone’s hotspot and then locks, the hotspot automatically disconnects. Idk if other people here didn’t really understand that, in which for example hotspot with laptops won’t disconnect cuz the laptop won’t be locked. They might really have not faced it yet.
However, as this issue is common per my experience and people I know, a quick solution is to pair the hotspot iPhone via Bluetooth with the receiver device, and it won’t disconnect even when locked.