How To Stop Iphone Hotspot From Disconnecting

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After further experimentation I found that if I create a Bluetooth connection (pair) between iPhone/iPad it stays connected throughout screen locks etc.

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answered Aug 7 '18 at 7:10

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Confirmed this also works with two Iphones

Jun 24 '19 at 16:46
I'm impressed with this ingenious design and ux by Apple.

Nov 6 at 16:08

I had the same issue with 2 iPhones. It appeared that iOS 12 is saving power by disabling Hotspot broadcast then the signal disappears afterwards.

To fix this Go to iPhone setting -> 'Battery health' and disable the battery saving mode. You find a small link under 'Peak Performance Capability', the option once disabled disappears and cannot be enabled again.

answered Aug 21 '19 at 11:35

you can re enable it again

May 18 '20 at 10:07
How do you re-enable the link?

Mar 16 at 14:13

Finally a working solution!

Turn off Auto-Lock on your iPhone/iPad. If you set Auto-Lock to "Never", the Personal Hotspot will stay active. Even with screen locked for hours.

No more disconnects after 1 to 5 minutes.

answered May 12 at 21:19

I think it's partially by design. Whenever my son wants to connect to my Personal hotspot, I have to open the Personal Hotspot screen, even if it's already on and he's got the network/password saved away. But, I don't have to toggle it off/on.

Also, disconnecting from a hotspot is automatic when the client device sleeps.

answered Aug 6 '18 at 8:43

its such a nightmare if you connect a router to the tether

May 18 '20 at 10:08

iPhone is trying to save battery when there is no data being transmitted to the connected device, for a given duration, by switch off the hotspot. If you live stream any video in youtube from your connected device, you could get around this problem.

answered Oct 29 '20 at 2:04

I was annoyed by this battery-saving feature of iPhone tethering for over a year. What it normally does is to drop the connection when the traffic was not intensive enough, for example downloading a huge file vs. watching YouTube video with buffering.

After searching around, I found the following methods that actually work!

Tethering over a USB
Disable Auto-Lock, and leave the screen to the hotspot setting page.
Play Spotify in the background on PC (or whatever device that's using the hotspot).

answered May 22 at 21:02

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