General What happened to remote hotspot?

[sldsnk]

I NO longer can start the hotspot on my phone from my iMac or iPad. Is it me or the feature has been removed? It was handy.

 

[Mlrollin91]

I NO longer can start the hotspot on my phone from my iMac or iPad. Is it me or the feature has been removed? It was handy.

No issues here.. restart device?

 

[ohsnap]

It’s still there for me. AT&T in the US.

 

[shadedred]

It's been hit or miss for me, worked without issue with iOS 10, now it fails frequently.

 

[sldsnk]

thanks all for the replies. I need to make myself clear. I can start the hotspot on my iPhone and then connect to it using my iMac with iOS 11. That’s not the issue. When the iPhone was running iOS 10 I didn’t have to turn on the hotspot on the iPhone first. I go to my iMac and in the airport menu I can select my iPhone and then the hotspot on the phone will be started.

Apple explains how to do it in iOS 10 in this page:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681

 

[hammie14]

thanks all for the replies. I need to make myself clear. I can start the hotspot on my iPhone and then connect to it using my iMac with iOS 11. That’s not the issue. When the iPhone was running iOS 10 I didn’t have to turn on the hotspot on the iPhone first. I go to my iMac and in the airport menu I can select my iPhone and then the hotspot on the phone will be started.

Apple explains how to do it in iOS 10 in this page:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681

Sign out of iCloud on your iPhone and Mac, restart both devices then sign back in again should sort the problem!

 

[sldsnk]

Sign out of iCloud on your iPhone and Mac, restart both devices then sign back in again should sort the problem!

I signed out of iCloud on iPhone and signed back in and it works again! Thanks! Now I gotta add my cards to Apple pay etc.