Kindle trouble connecting to hotspot

[jkingrph]

I have a iphone 15promax and occasionally when away from home try to connect to my kindle paperwhite se via the iphone hotspot. My iphone will often see a lot of other wifi locations around which are inaccessible but not my kindle. I can turn both on and off and finally, sometimes after 45 minutes to an hour it will show and I can connect. Any idea what the problem might be.

 

[Jim Becher]

I have a iphone 15promax and occasionally when away from home try to connect to my kindle paperwhite se via the iphone hotspot. My iphone will often see a lot of other wifi locations around which are inaccessible but not my kindle. I can turn both on and off and finally, sometimes after 45 minutes to an hour it will show and I can connect. Any idea what the problem might be.

We basically had the exact same problems with our iPhone. Sixteens. Multiple ones. After playing with it long enough, we found out that when you initially connect, you cannot have the lock screen on or it won't find it. Sometimes we actually had to go into the hot spot screen on phone before it would show up on other devices. Very strange. I am really surprised no one has reported this problem before.

 

[bear7962]

I think I may not understand. There are times when I have to connect my ipad to my iphone hotspot when Wifi is not available because my ipad does not have cellular. Anyway , I do this from my ipad. I open Settings on my Ipad.the go to Wifi. I scroll down to My Networks. It shows my other Wifi frequency and my iPhone. If I click on My iPhone it connects my ipad to my iphone hotspot. It is possible that the first time I did this I had my iPhone settings set to Allow others to Connect but It was so long ago, I no longer remember and at this point, that setting is not clicked on but I can still connect to my iPhone hotspot.