Internet tethering/personal hotspot feature disappeared

[Pejo]

My personal hotspot feature has just vanished from my phone. Any ideas?

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[bab2010]

Hard reset the phone or just iOS.

[mrtim]

I just had the same problem. I tried several turn-off, turn-on combinations, and was about to try a complete restore of the phone from iTunes, but then found an easier answer.

Go to General -> Network

In my case, here I saw the Personal Hotspot entry, but with the spinning busy indicator which never went away.

The fix: turn Enable 3G to Off, and then back On again.

Poof, my Personal Hotspot works again.

[iGaz]

You need both wifi and mobile data turned on for it to work...

[Pejo]

Thanks guys, but none of those fixes work. looks like i will have to hard reset...:-(

[iGaz]

Is it turned on in Settings > Network > Personal Hotspot...?

[blessed]

Question: on my iPhone 4 (AT&T) I can see the personal hotspot feature, but when I click on it, I'm told to contact AT&T. Is this a feature they want me to purchase? Again......on the (JB) phone that my son has, it's free for him,but not for me. Help?!?!?

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[iCrank]

Question: on my iPhone 4 (AT&T) I can see the personal hotspot feature, but when I click on it, I'm told to contact AT&T. Is this a feature they want me to purchase? Again......on the (JB) phone that my son has, it's free for him,but not for me. Help?!?!?

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Well to answer your question. You have to pay monthly for tethering. That's why it's telling you to contact AT&T. You're son will be replaced on a tiered plan because AT&T is cracking down on jailbroken devices that use tether and don't pay for it

[iHolophyte]

Well to answer your question. You have to pay monthly for tethering. That's why it's telling you to contact AT&T. You're son will be replaced on a tiered plan because AT&T is cracking down on jailbroken devices that use tether and don't pay for it

Or you can tether though your unlimited data plan like ones self. In the UK we are not assigned to AT&T's which allows us to tether I'd your are with a network that gives unlimited data, which you'd have thought America would be one up on Europe on that one but obviously not!

[DaveM]

In the UK we are not assigned to AT&T's which allows us to tether I'd your are with a network that gives unlimited data, which you'd have thought America would be one up on Europe on that one but obviously not!

For the moment, maybe...

Better be looking over your shoulder.