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All iPads If I use the cellular hotspot from my iPhone on my iPad does it effect my speed if I use both at the same time?
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Yes.
One SIM card, one contract, one connection to the cell tower. The available bandwidth for the iPhone is shared between all devices.
The iPhone “splits“ it into internal use and the hotspot feature for other devices.
But I don‘t know in which ratio/priority.
If you have a 2nd data-only SIM card (in a dedicated hotspot or the iPad) then you have 2 independent connections to the cell tower and it‘s up to your carrier/contract if each one has the full bandwidth available.
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One SIM card, one contract, one connection to the cell tower. The available bandwidth for the iPhone is shared between all devices.
The iPhone “splits“ it into internal use and the hotspot feature for other devices.
But I don‘t know in which ratio/priority.
If you have a 2nd data-only SIM card (in a dedicated hotspot or the iPad) then you have 2 independent connections to the cell tower and it‘s up to your carrier/contract if each one has the full bandwidth available.
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Also remember that your battery life will decrease faster because the hotspot makes your phone hotter.
Just a heads-up from personal experience, using the hotspot everyday it's something that I would not advise, you are going to repay the iPad monthly sim card with an early iPhone battery replacement.
Probably it's still convenient considering the price monthly of the plan + ipad cellular additional cost. If you can deal with your iPhone need of charge during the day.
Maybe it's not your use case, but I just wanted to share my experience
Just a heads-up from personal experience, using the hotspot everyday it's something that I would not advise, you are going to repay the iPad monthly sim card with an early iPhone battery replacement.
Probably it's still convenient considering the price monthly of the plan + ipad cellular additional cost. If you can deal with your iPhone need of charge during the day.
Maybe it's not your use case, but I just wanted to share my experience
Really good tip!
Definitely something to think about if I start to use the hotspot from my phone everyday or even every week!
Confirm re iPhone battery. During COVID isolation I did not have that good Internet at home for the number of calls I had a day so I had to rely on my iPhone battery. Well now the phone is 2 years old and battery health is 89 %. Not the worst but I think it would have been better if I did not rely on it for hotspot at that period.
Yes you can do this with no problem. The iPhone will be the primary priority for internet traffic, I don't know the ratio of the breakdown. Depending on your carriers plan and restrictions your hot spot may have a gimped speeds and a data limit. Your phones battery will drain a bit faster due to it transferring larger data out through the WiFi, and someone else more technical would know better but iPhone uses bluetooth also for this hotspot connection.
This does not degrade your battery more than normal similar use. Just know you are using the phone more and using more of its processing power so usage is increased and heat is the byproduct.
On an everyday use depending on how you plan to roll with that set up, it may be more beneficial to have a separate data plan for the iPad. The also depends on your plan from the carrier, i.e data cap, throtling, slow hot spotting, and the likes.
I am really curious to what the priority ratio is now.
This does not degrade your battery more than normal similar use. Just know you are using the phone more and using more of its processing power so usage is increased and heat is the byproduct.
On an everyday use depending on how you plan to roll with that set up, it may be more beneficial to have a separate data plan for the iPad. The also depends on your plan from the carrier, i.e data cap, throtling, slow hot spotting, and the likes.
I am really curious to what the priority ratio is now.
Depends on how you connect the iPad. You can manually set up bluetooth tethering.
However, the “iCloud Personal Hotspot” only uses bluetooth for the initial handshake and then switches to wi-fi for the actual connection.
The last time I relied on tethering was with the iPhone 4 and I pretty much had to keep that phone plugged in for the whole work day. Tethering killed the battery in like 4 hours or less.
Bluetooth tethering has gone the way of the dodo. The only options for tethering now are wifi, or Lightning cable with a Mac. Personal hotspot uses Bluetooth to set it up, but it’s still wifi tethering.
It probably does but for what I do it doesn’t effect me. I have the 13 pro max which has a pretty decent battery anyway. I also have the MagSafe battery pack should I need extra juice. I don’t need to use internet on my mini 6 regularly enough to justify a cellular plan. I also have unlimited 5G data and tethering on my iPhone plan so I like to
make use of that sometimes. If I do tether it would be to my mini 6. I could be streaming a video on the mini 6 and might be sending messages, using social media or web browsing on my phone. For those use cases I don’t see any slow down on either device.
make use of that sometimes. If I do tether it would be to my mini 6. I could be streaming a video on the mini 6 and might be sending messages, using social media or web browsing on my phone. For those use cases I don’t see any slow down on either device.