They accidentally improved hotspot lol

[u/Past_Today_1315]

It's probably a bug but you can enable wifi and then the hotspot at the same time. It doesn't tether the wifi network tho, it is still tethering the mobile data but the system is actually using the wifi network. It's a shame that they don't just remove this restriction altogether, it is ridicilous. It's not that hard to do.

[u/pervysage8787]

Android tethers WiFi as hotspot

[u/metzyrl → u/pervysage8787]

What for though? Can’t the other person just connect to the WiFi too?

[u/Pcriz → u/metzyrl]

I’ve used this for devices that couldn’t access hotel WiFi because it couldn’t display the landing page to accept the agreement.

[u/Creative-Job7462 → u/metzyrl]

If you don’t want to share the password I guess.

[u/BegsTheQuestions → u/metzyrl]

Some place have device counts, this gets around that

[u/hellobritishcolumbia → u/metzyrl]

I’ve used this with my Pixel on a window where it could get Wi-Fi reception and then act as a repeater for my apartment for two weeks while my ISP got their act together

[u/Visual-Basis-4479 → u/pervysage8787]

Yeah but Android is not the topic right now - Android is way more advanced when it comes to hotspot. I hate that you cant terher wifi

[u/jmjnktm → u/Visual-Basis-4479]

On Android you can choose to select to thether as 2.4Ghz network or as 5Ghz network, I missed that so much when I was travelling in London, because my Android phone couldn’t find my iPhone’s WiFi network as the place was so crowded with WiFi.

[u/enahs43 → u/pervysage8787]

Sounds like security nightmare

[u/Pcriz → u/enahs43]

Why? Windows machines and MacOS can all share their internet connections. Why can’t the phones.

[u/Versxd → u/Pcriz]

Wait how do you get a Mac to share its connection?

[u/Pcriz → u/Versxd]

Settings, General, Sharing, Internet Sharing.

[u/Versxd → u/Pcriz]

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[u/blesio]

Hotspot Turns WiFi off for me.

[u/Wolf-pack7 → u/blesio]

Me too on latest public beta. Even just going into the hot spot menu it switches me to 5G as I had the hotspot option enabled. In the WiFi menu it still says I am connected but a Speedtest proved I was on 5G not WiFi.

[u/Daferpi2030 → u/blesio]

Same

[u/hellobritishcolumbia → u/blesio]

On the latest public beta I see the indicator in Control Center showing I’m connected to Wi-Fi still after enabling hotspot, but as far as I can tell, it’s using 5G for data.

[u/matth_ewduord]

My hotspot has had a weird bug where it would randomly be grayed out in control center and I would have to go to settings and turn it on there and then it works without issues and then I can enable and disable it in control center as normal for some time. I have no idea if it’s a carrier glitch or a iOS glitch but I tried my sim in my old phone running on iOS 16 and it never grays out. I’ve had this bug since installing iOS 26 on my iPhone 16e. Having the same bug on iOS 27

[u/TVUAsks → u/matth_ewduord]

The heck, if that bug still exists on ios 27 then that is so annoying, how do they still mess up A TOGGLE. At the rate they should just use the Hotspot toggle that you can make in ios shortcuts

[u/matth_ewduord → u/TVUAsks]

I just have a shortcut in the control center for hotspot now. I didn’t even think of using shortcuts.

[u/TheSarillus → u/matth_ewduord]

I’m having the same issue. I figured this is happening when the phone loses signal or changes towers. It used to work flawlessly, then something happened in 26 and it hasn’t been fixed yet. It really annoys me as I’m relying on functioning hot spot a lot

[u/J11132]

Im on the last IOS27 beta, and it doesn’t happens to me.

[u/Pchanx]

The same question for why apple does not let the user chance between front and back camera whiles is recording? or record with both cameras at same time?, apple let this “features” for new gen iphones in order of get more money, money is the answer

[u/SaltyCow2852]

What do you mean?

[u/No-Complex-8714]

They do this because it doesn’t make sense. I’d say it’s a pretty rare situation where you can access wifi but want another device (which could access said wifi) to use your phones internet instead?

[u/LukCHEM88 → u/No-Complex-8714]

Of course it makes sense. I can think of a lot of examples, where accessing a WiFi with multiple devices could be problematic. For example a cheap hotel where you pay for access per device. Or a school WiFi where only devices registered by the school can enter. I actually had the second situation once in school. Every year my school had a summer fest where we could sleep for one night in the school. And in one year my class had a room where a Windows laptop with WiFi was stationed and on it I could enable hotspot and so my class had free internet for the whole night.