8 Tips to Get Your Mac to Connect to Your iPhone Hotspot | Jobs Vox

The Personal Hotspot feature on your iPhone is probably the most unreliable thing you can ever use to browse the web. It often crashes your devices, halts your workflow or even causes data loss.

It’s a frustrating problem caused largely by Apple’s way of saving power and data on iPhones. But sometimes it can be caused by other factors like incorrect network settings and software errors. However, we have some tips to help you solve this problem and one of them will be useful for you.

1. Turn off low data mode

Low Data Mode is a feature in macOS that helps you consume less data by reducing the number of network-based tasks on your devices. While this is a great feature, it could be the reason why your iPhone is losing network connection with your Mac.

Turn it off on your Mac by following these steps:

1. Click on it Apple logo on the menu bar to open the Apple menu.
2. Select System parameters and choose Ვai – fai on the left window.
3. Connect to your iPhone’s hotspot (indicated by the chain link) by clicking it connect When you hover over the name of your iPhone.
4. After connecting to the hotspot, click details When you hover your pointer over the name of your iPhone.
5. In the submenu that appears, turn it off Low data mode.
6. Click on it ok and return home.

Sometimes, your Apple device may turn off hotspot connections to save power and data when it detects no activity after 90 seconds. Low data mode disables background activities that would otherwise be connected to devices.

2. Forget and reconnect to Hotspot on your Mac

A small reset can sometimes help with minor problems like this. Forgetting and reconnecting your iPhone to a hotspot might just help keep your connection stable. And here’s how to do it:

1. Click on it Ვai – fai icon in the top right corner of your screen in the menu bar.
2. Click now Wi-Fi settings from the drop-down menu.
3. When System Preferences opens, you’ll find yourself in the Wi-Fi menu.
4. Find the name of your iPhone famous networks category and click more icon – indicated by three dots.
5. Select Forget this network.
6. Select take out When the confirmation prompt appears.

After you forget the network, you can easily reconnect with a click connect on your phone name Personal hotspots Wi-Fi settings category. If you’ve signed in with your Apple ID on your iPhone or Mac, you won’t need to enter a password.

3. Restart your iPhone and Mac

A common troubleshooting tip, but restarting your devices can also help with this hotspot problem. Restarting your device stops and restarts scripts that may have malfunctioned because they’ve been running for so long.

You can easily reboot your Mac with a click Restart in the Apple menu. For iPhones, it varies depending on which model you have, but we’ve covered a special guide on how to reset your iPhone even if the buttons are broken.

4. Turn off low power mode

Both your iPhone and Mac have a low-power mode to reduce their power consumption and extend battery life. What Low Power Mode does on the iPhone is disable certain background processes, stop syncing iCloud photos, turn off the screen after 30 seconds, and a few other things.

However, reducing this power can prevent your iPhone from hotspotting by turning it off to save power. Here’s how to make sure your iPhone isn’t in low power mode:

1. tap on parameters on your home screen and scroll down battery.
2. Take it battery Settings and turn it off Low power mode.

You can tell that your phone is not in low power mode if the battery icon is not colored yellow.

5. Keep your iPhone screen on and turn off auto-lock

Sometimes, in order for your iPhone hotspot to stay active, you need to ensure that its screen is on. It’s really a battery drain; So I recommend doing this only with your iPhone turned on.

Here’s how to keep the screen on:

1. Open it parameters and navigation display and brightness.
2. Scroll down auto lock, Open the submenu and tap Never.

If you notice that the auto-lock section is grayed out and stays on for 30 seconds, that means you still have low power mode enabled.

Finally, remember to change this when you’re done using hotspot to minimize battery drain on your iPhone. In fact, turning off auto-lock in iOS is one way to save battery on your iPhone.

6. Connect your iPhone directly to your Mac

Connecting your iPhone to a hotspot is also known as tethering, and you can connect your iPhone to your Mac with a USB cable. With this method, the hotspot connection is much more reliable and less likely to be closed for no apparent reason.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Use a Lightning to USB cable to connect your iPhone to your Mac.
2. Next, tap the weather on your iPhone if you receive a prompt. If your iPhone asks you to enter your device passcode, do that as well.
3. proceed Settings > Personal Hotspot on your iPhone and turn it on Allow others to join.
4. It is now open System parameters on your Mac and click network on the left window.
5. Click to turn off Wi-Fi Ვai – fai and turn off the switch.
6. come back network Menu and color under iPhone USB It should turn green and say connected.
7. Now you can use your iPhone wireless network with USB tethering.

An added bonus of using this method is that your iPhone continues to charge while you’re using the hotspot.

7. Reset network settings on both devices

If all other options fail, reset the network settings on both devices. There’s no easy way to do this, but we’ve explained different ways to reset network settings on Mac in a dedicated guide.

On the iPhone, however, it’s pretty easy. You will find an option Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Network Settings. When prompted, enter your password and continue.

8. Update iOS

Frequent disabling of hotspots on iPhones may be caused by software bugs in older versions of iOS. Apple may have addressed this issue in newer versions of the OS. So it might be a good idea to update your phone software to the latest one to see if there are any improvements.

You will find an option to update your phone Settings > General > Software Update. Make sure you are connected to stable Wi-Fi and enter the password when prompted. Once you’ve finished the installation process, try connecting your Mac to the iPhone hotspot again.

Make your iPhone’s hotspot trusted

Now, you can rest easy using your iPhone’s Internet without worrying about losing your connection. But if your hotspot issues persist, you may have to contact your carrier and see if it’s a problem from their end.

Note that some network providers charge extra for the Hotspot feature. Also, don’t forget that you can always use your iPhone’s Internet connection via a USB cable instead of Wi-Fi.