Hi guys, David and David here from payetteforward.com and upphone.com, and in this video, we're
going to show you how to set up Personal Hotspot on your iPhone.
So first, let's just explain what Personal Hotspot is.
Personal Hotspot makes your iPhone a Wi-Fi device that other devices can use to connect
to the Internet.
So for instance, if you're on vacation, you can connect to the internet through your iPhone.
You hook your laptop up to your iPhone using Personal Hotspot.
Yeah.
Connect to the internet.
Sure.
Now, you need to have a data plan to use Personal Hotspot.
Otherwise, there's nothing to use, you know, no internet connection.
Yep.
So if your plan doesn't have any cellular data, or if your plan doesn't include mobile
hotspot as part of the plan, you might not even see the Personal Hotspot in the Settings
app.
But you can go check out upphone.com and find a great new plan with mobile hotspot or cellular
data.
Yeah, Personal Hotspot is one of those things that your carrier has the ability to turn
on and off, and then that affects the actual software on your iPhone — whether or not
it shows up.
So if you know that you have Personal Hotspot and it's not working, check out our other
video called, "Personal hotspot not working on iPhone?"
Card above; link in the description.
But this is how to set it up if you do see it.
Let's actually show them how to set it up then, how about that?
All right.
First thing: open the Settings app.
Right there, you'll see Personal Hotspot.
Tap right on that, and then turn on this switch next to Personal Hotspot.
And there are a few different ways that you can connect another device, like a laptop
or an iPad, to the internet using her Personal Hotspot on your iPhone.
The first is Wi-Fi, and there are instructions here for each one.
The second is Bluetooth, and the third is USB.
We're going to recommend using Wi-Fi, It's the easiest one to do.
You know, no, no cable required.
No Bluetooth required.
Right.
It just seems to work.
Yep.
So there's a Wi-Fi password.
Now you must have changed it.
I did change it to "password" — that is not the default.
Right.
So if you want to make it easier than the string of letters and numbers that you may
see, you can just tap where it says password on David's phone.
I can change that to upphone.
But you have to have 8 characters, so I'll make it upphone1.
How about that?
Perfect.
So, now, I've got my laptop over here, so I'm going to connect to the internet through
David's phone.
So I'll tap on — this is a Mac, works on PC too.
Yep.
I'm just going to tap on the Wi-Fi symbol up here in the upper right-hand corner of
the screen, and it's looking for networks, and David's iPhone will show up in just a
second.
Oh, there it is.
So your iPhone is called "iPhone."
Okay.
And you can tell that it's Personal Hotspot, on a Mac anyway, because of the different
icon on the right-hand side — a little interlocking chain icon.
Now, I'm 99% sure that if my iPhone was named David's iPhone, it would show up as David's
iPhone over there.
I'm a hundred percent sure that is the case.
Alright, perfect.
So in a second we should talk about how to change the Wi-Fi name.
Yeah.
Sure.
Well let's connect to this first.
Yeah, okay, great.
So tap on iPhone.
Now it's going to ask me for a password.
Oh, I wonder what it is? "upphone1".
Connected to iPhone, and I can go to Safari and I'll be using David's Wi-Fi connection
to the internet.
Alright.
Yeah, let's try to, you know, load a page on UpPhone.
Let's find a phone.
Look at that.
Look at these great deals on phones!
We're not promoting the site at all.
So let's show them how to change the Wi-Fi name.
And also I think it's important to mention that you should probably turn off her...
Personal Hotspot.
I keep wanting to say "Hersonal Potspot."
That's not right.
Alright.
You should turn off Personal Hotspot when you're not using it because you don't want
your devices to choose to connect to the internet through this, maybe accidentally if you're
at home, and not the home Wi-Fi, because you'll burn through your cellular data plan.
Also, if you don't have Wi-Fi password and you have Personal Hotspot in a public place,
someone could just connect to your iPhone.
I think you have to have a Wi-Fi password.
Well, if your password is set to "password" like I did, someone could guess that.
A bad password.
Yeah.
Alright.
So, how are we going to change the name of my iPhone and therefore the network?
Let's tap back to Settings in the upper left-hand corner.
And then we're going to head to General.
General.
Yep.
And tap About at the top.
And now where it says "Name iPhone", let's just tap on that.
Let's change it to something else.
Let's change it to David's iPhone.
That's great.
That's beautiful.
What phone is this?
This is a X. Sure.
Really showing off your writing skills there.
Yeah, that's... there's some poor grammar.
Turn hotspot off and back on, let's try that.
Yeah.
iPhone's gone.
That's what you had to do.
Yeah.
You had to restart it on your phone.
Yep.
That was the deal.
Okay.
So now I can type...
David's iPhone X.
The password I have to re-enter, because the iPhone with a different name now thinks it's
a different network.
So, "upphone1".
Back on the internet using Personal Hotspot.
Let's load another page just to... iPhone XR 64 gigs.
Look at those deals!
Wow, 19 bucks a month.
Wow, what a useful website.
You can compare every single carrier in a chart and see how much the phone costs.
Wow.
You can't do that anywhere else.
That's pretty impressive.
Mmm-hmm.
So that's it.
That's how to set up Personal Hotspot on your iPhone.
And we made it look easy.
We made it look very easy.
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