Anyone here with iOS 13 beta installed on their iPhone? Apparently there's a feature called "Persistent Personal Hotspot". I've been waiting for something like this on iOS for a very long time. So far all of the data points to the fact that it'll work perfectly with iOS devices. What about Android? If an Android device connects to an iPhone or iPad with iOS 13 with the "Persistent Personal Hotspot", is it still going to maintain connection with an iPhone/iPad when it goes to sleep?
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All Devices iOS 13 and Persistent Personal Hotspot?
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It should, kind of the point of naming it what it is. But as always it also depends on the client device..
I worked perfectly between my iPhone XR and my iPad 12.9 up until beta 2. Then it broke in beta 3 & 4 for me.
Just recently, the personal hotspot cannot even last long enough for me to download a 600MB file, let alone “persistent”. Beta 5. That is a connection from cellular iPhone to cellular iPad. Hopefully iOS 13 GM performs better in this regard. And, one major reason I almost never connect Personal Hotspot using Wifi, unless I have no other option. USB Ethernet is much better.
How are people’s experiences with persistent hotspot now?
My persistent hotspot is not very persistent, which is very annoying. In fact, I just lost the connection on my iPad Pro after receiving a phone call on my iPhone, despite the fact the devices were sitting right next to each other.
Hardware:
iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 13.0 beta 8
iPad Pro 10.5, iPadOS 13.0 beta 8
My persistent hotspot is not very persistent, which is very annoying. In fact, I just lost the connection on my iPad Pro after receiving a phone call on my iPhone, despite the fact the devices were sitting right next to each other.
Hardware:
iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 13.0 beta 8
iPad Pro 10.5, iPadOS 13.0 beta 8
It's hardly working for me. I rely on personal hotspot and I can't get it to hold a connection for more than about a minute.
The difference that I have seen is, that when my hotspotted devices go to sleep, hotspot does not drop. I like this feature when I'm constantly picking up those devices and they need to be connected, but at the same time, I don't like it because I need to remember to disconnect them or disable hotspot on my main device, or it will never disconnect. Instant Hotspot still works the same for me as it did in iOS 12.
