

Open Control Center, 3D touch (press hard) on the network options, then tap the Personal Hotspot button to turn it on. Once you've enabled personal hotspot, you can quickly turn it on from Control Center in iOS 11. By default, your device will share the internet over a new Wi-Fi network with your device's name (which you can set it your General -> About -> Name settings) and the password right below the on/off slider. To enable it, open Settings, select the Personal Hotspot option near the top, then tap the slider to turn it on. Have an iPhone or an iPad with a cellular connection? The built-in Personal Hotspot feature makes it easy to share your connection. Have an iPhone, iPad, Android device, Windows PC or tablet, or Mac? All let you easily share your internet connection. Good news: every major operating system supports internet sharing today.

What You Need to Share Your Internet Connection

Here's how to share your cellular data or a wired ethernet connection-and make your own Wi-Fi hotspot from any device. And it's the way we get work done at coffee shops when the free Wi-Fi doesn't cut it. We've used these tricks at hotels where there was only one wired internet connection but needed to get laptops, phones, and tablets online-as well as at conferences where only one phone had cellular data but everyone on the team needed to get things done. With one device connected to the internet, you and your family, friends, or co-workers can all use that single connection to get online from multiple devices. Odds are, you have a backup internet connection in your pocket. Try as you might to connect, sometimes airport and hotel Wi-Fi networks won't let you get online or they limit you to just one connection-and, if you're anything like me, your home and office internet always seems to go out at the worst time possible.ĭon't fret.
