Enable Airplane mode (if available) or simply disconnect and reconnect to the Personal Hotspot on your iPhone. Personal Hotspot stops working after a few secondsĪn easy way to get your data connection “flowing” after it stalled while using the Personal Hotspot, is to briefly disconnect from the Personal Hotspot with the other device. Unfortunately, there is no way to specifically target only the cellular network settings. Note that you will have to re-enter all of your Wi-Fi network passwords when resetting the network settings. Now select “Reset Network Settings” to restore the defaults.
If you feel that something is off with your internet connection on the iPhone, you can also wipe and recreate the network settings by going to your “Settings” app, the “General” section and (after scrolling down all the way) tapping “Reset”. Reset your Mobile Data Network settings Settings → General → Reset → Reset Network Settings This will recreate the necessary details and allow you to reconnect to the cellular data network, be it 3G or 4G/LTE. Either retrieve your details from the documentation your carrier gave you with the contract/phone, or better, hit the “Reset Settings” button at the bottom of the page. If those fields are all blank on your device, your network settings were either missing from the start or they have been corrupted for some reason. Go to “Mobile Data” and tap “Mobile Data Network” to view your detailed network settings. We need to make sure that everything is set up correctly in order for your Personal Hotspot to work correctly. Personal Hotspot troubleshooting: Checking the settings Settings → Mobile Data → Mobile Data Network Note: It might be necessary to restart your iPhone or the other device during the troubleshooting to make sure that all of the settings are actually carried over correctly. Installing all of the current updates will make troubleshooting far easier, although this is clearly not something you can easily achieve while on the road.