Personal Hotspot Set Up Connect to Personal Hotspot USB Make sure that you have the latest version iPhone or iPad with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or USB of iTunes on your Mac or PC. Then You can connect to a Personal Hotspot connect your iPhone or iPad to your A Personal Hotspot lets you share the using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or USB. And with computer with the USB cable that came cellular data connection of your iPhone or iOS 13, devices that are connected to a with your device. If you see an alert that iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) when you don't Personal Hotspot will stay connected, even says tap "Trust This Computer?" tap Trust. have access to a Wi-Fi network. if the screen is locked—so those devices Set or Change Your Wi-Fi Password will still get notifications and messages. • Go to Settings > Cellular or Settings > You need to set a Wi-Fi password in order Personal Hotspot. to set up a Personal Hotspot. To change • Tap the slider next to Allow Others to WI-FI the Wi-Fi password, go to Settings > Join. On the device that you want to connect to, Cellular > Personal Hotspot or Settings > • If you don't see the option for Personal go to Settings > Cellular > Personal Personal Hotspot, then tap the Wi-Fi Hotspot, contact your carrier to make Hotspot or Settings > Personal Hotspot and password.* sure that you can use Personal Hotspot make sure that it's on. Then verify the Wi-Fi with your plan. password and name of the phone. Stay on Choose a Wi-Fi password that's at least this screen until you’ve connected your eight characters long and use ASCII other device to the Wi-Fi network. characters. If you use non-ASCII characters, other devices will be unable to On the device that you want to connect, go join your Personal Hotspot. Non-ASCII to Settings > Wi-Fi and look for your characters include characters in Japanese, iPhone or iPad in the list. Then tap the Wi- Russian, Chinese, and other languages. Fi network to join. If asked, enter the ASCII characters include: password for your Personal Hotspot. All the letters in English, both lowercase and uppercase BLUETOOTH The digits 0 through 9 To make sure that your iPhone or iPad is Some punctuation marks discoverable, go to Settings > Bluetooth * When you change your password, any and stay on that screen. Then on your connected devices will be disconnected. Mac or PC, follow the manufacturer directions to set up a Bluetooth network connection.

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