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How to Use 'Instant Hotspot' On a Mac with OS X Yosemite

Ive been using my iPhone hot spot with my old Dell lap top, my iPad air, and my MBP with 10.9. Have it working in seconds.

So what's so special about this instant hot spot?
 
Personal Hotspot what about network extender?

I don't need the personal hotspot on my iMAC unless the DSL goes down. That's pretty infrequent. What would make more sense is for this to be reversed. The iMAC is used as a hotspot and the iPhone can drastically improve its indoor coverage. Much better than using a Verizon Network extender..
 
Well

eas said:
Did that make sense to you when you wrote it? If not, why'd you post it? If so, seek help/get your meds checked.

As for paying extra to use it for a hotspot. Avail yourself of the free market and choose another carrier.

Well he's a conservative, so there's that.... Science, Logic and FACTS don't exist in their world.

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eas said:
Did that make sense to you when you wrote it? If not, why'd you post it? If so, seek help/get your meds checked.

As for paying extra to use it for a hotspot. Avail yourself of the free market and choose another carrier.
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Well, he's a conservative, so there's that.... Science, Logic and FACTS don't exist in their world.
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dannys1 said:
It works as reliably as al the Handoff features, which is, not at all - probably 30% of the time.

I've seen it appear. It doesn't appear right now though.

I'll usually get Handoff working between iPhone and Macbook and not the other way around. Then i'll reboot the Macbook and it'll work from Macbook to iPhone and not the other round.

It's one of the buggiest features Apple has have made...a theme of the times lately unfortunately.

When's the Yosemite update coming?
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I agree, I was pulling my hair out trying to get this to work consistently last night. At first my mac found the iPhone hotspot and tethered with no problems. Then I tried with my iPad and it would find the hotspot but not connect. Then it wouldn't find it at all. Then the mac couldn't connect to it anymore either, but still find it. Then the iPad could connect but the mac still couldn't. Tried resetting all 3 devices and resetting network settings. It just doesn't work consistently.

The big irony is of course that it was supposed to replace the old hotspot method and make it less clunckly and more streamlined, yet it's done the exact opposite, for me anyway.
 
antonis said:
Hm...I guess it's time to try the workarounds then.
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Are you using the Knock app for unlocking your Mac from your iPhone? I was, but it seems like it doesn't play well with Yosemite's Instant Hotspot feature. I told Knock to unlink my iPhone and quit the (Mac) app and then my iPhone started showing up as an available Personal Hotspot in the WiFi menu.
 
dljeffery said:
Are you using the Knock app for unlocking your Mac from your iPhone? I was, but it seems like it doesn't play well with Yosemite's Instant Hotspot feature. I told Knock to unlink my iPhone and quit the (Mac) app and then my iPhone started showing up as an available Personal Hotspot in the WiFi menu.
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No, not using this. But as pointed, it's a new functionality that won't work for some users, unless they do those workarounds (logout/login to icloud account on both sides, mac and iphone, etc). Haven't tried it yet, though, so can't confirm this.

akbarali.ch said:
I'm confused a bit. Couldn't we already do this? How is this 'Instant Hotspot' different from the Earlier 'Hotspot'?
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You're right. I was mistaken. This is supposed to work without the step I've written, but only for devices logged in the same icloud account (hence the 'personal' term).
 
Not much use until Apple get Bluetooth and WiFi sorted

Whereas this is a nice idea, until such time as Apple sort the connection problems and conflicts between Bluetooth and WiFi, that many Yosemite users are suffering, this is a no go for many folk.
 
Is this supposed to work for AT&T customers with the grandfathered unlimited data plan? I have an iPhone 6 and a 2012 MBP (all of this BT stuff is supported), and my phone isn't showing up.

EDIT: Nevermind, you need the hotspot plan from them. So really, I don't understand what's so special about this feature other than you save the step of enabling it on your phone.
 
Worked perfect in the Beta

The weird thing is that it used to work perfectly in the Beta versions...
And now even since 8.1, it just doesn't work for me.

Hand-off only work going from my iPhone to my Mac, but not the other way around. The funny thing is that it worked both ways for 1 day! and then stopped.

Instant Hot Spot never works for me... It tries to connect, and then fail after a few seconds.

Only the making and receiving phone calls on my Mac works.

Again, I find it very strange as all featured worked perfectly in all Beta versions that I tested.
 
I've got handoff with apps and sms, but no phone calls or instant hotspot showing up :/
 
reset everything and still cannot get it to work
ios 8.3
os 10.10.3
tmobile unlimited.

I also cannot make the bluetooth connection between the 6 and the rmbp.
 
finally got it to work by doing this --

Logging in to icloud.com and made sure both the phone and the mac are signed in. in my case they were both signed in already... but logging in and out seemed to trigger something...

Apple w/o Steve is just getting more and more buggy...
 
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