Issue with Hotspot to iPhone

[Alicia1]

Hi All

I am having a bit of a weird issue that I haven't experienced on previous operating systems.

When I am out, I like to hotspot my macbook to my iphone which works as intended. The issue I am experiencing is when I close the lid on my macbook, the hotspot connection stays active. This has only started happening with Sequoia / iOS 18. It used to disconnect when the lid was closed so I now have to manually turn off hotspot on my phone.

Is this happening to anybody else? Does anybody have any ideas how to fix this please?

Thank you

 

[Alicia1]

Nobody else experiencing this?

 

[Ifti]

No

 

[bogdanw]

It used to disconnect when the lid was closed so I now have to manually turn off hotspot on my phone.

You could disable networking during sleep.
To read the current value for tcpkeepalive from Terminal: pmset -g
To disable tcpkeepalive: sudo pmset -a tcpkeepalive 0
To enable tcpkeepalive: sudo pmset -a tcpkeepalive 1
But it also disables Find my Mac for a Mac that is in sleep mode.