iPhone Sharing iPad/iPhone WiFi connection with MBP?

[Porsupah]

While I attempt to deal with my MBP’s suddenly inoperable WiFi interface, I’m hoping to set up a simple workaround: sharing the WiFi connection from the iPad Pro (iOS 13) or iPhone 5s (iOS 12) with the ailing MBP over USB. The stock “hotspot sharing” works fine if either device is on cellular data, but not WiFi.

Am I just missing some obvious option, or do I need to delve into jailbreaking?

 

[Shirasaki]

I assume you want your MBP to use cellular data provided by your iPad iPhone. If that’s the case, activate Hotspot first, and activate wifi later. Your iPhone iPad will handle both connections just fine.

However, if you want to share wifi from iPhone iPad to MBP I don’t think without jailbreaking this is possible.

 

[Porsupah]

I assume you want your MBP to use cellular data provided by your iPad iPhone. If that’s the case, activate Hotspot first, and activate wifi later. Your iPhone iPad will handle both connections just fine.

However, if you want to share wifi from iPhone iPad to MBP I don’t think without jailbreaking this is possible.

Unfortunately, no - I’d like to connect to the iPad or iPhone over USB, and use the WiFi connection they have. (Cellular would be costly, and I want access to the home network too)

From what I’ve been reading, yes, it looks like iOS and iPadOS don’t support this configuration. Jailbreak time for me, it seems..