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USB tethering from iPhone to PowerMac?
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Apparently you'll require Leopard to do this with the iPhone.
Unless someone has created a USB tethering driver for Tiger - which has transpired with Android phones.
Unless someone has created a USB tethering driver for Tiger - which has transpired with Android phones.
Just for kicks I tried my first-gen iPhone SE running iOS 15.2 which has a Lightning connector to complicate matters: absolutely no dice on Tiger or Snow Leopard but USB tethering works fine on Mavericks; I'll test Lion and Mountain Lion next.
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I tried it on 10.5.8 and it didn’t seem to work. Gonna try again.
iPhone 8, iOS 14.7.1.
BTW it did not work on 10.6.8 Intel either, though that could be due to absence of drivers for post-2011 Macs.
LOL the very point of tethering is to avoid Wifi. I am stuck now with Express being used to get internet to the Quad, while I would want it to be back to its use for Airplaying music (because there is some issue with Extreme I got, it fails to configure to join a network). USB tethering would make life easier, if it worked.
So...
USB tethering to the iPhone SE running iOS 15.2 doesn't work on Mountain Lion. The "iPhone USB" interface is detected but shown as not connected.
Bluetooth tethering using the PAN profile works out of the box on Snow Leopard, but not at all on Tiger; the profile is shown as available but no network interface is created, and I can't (figure out how to) create it manually.
Bluetooth PAN tethering works out of the box on Tiger using an Android 8.1 phone. Bluetooth is much less of a battery hog than WiFi.
USB tethering to the iPhone SE running iOS 15.2 doesn't work on Mountain Lion. The "iPhone USB" interface is detected but shown as not connected.
Bluetooth tethering using the PAN profile works out of the box on Snow Leopard, but not at all on Tiger; the profile is shown as available but no network interface is created, and I can't (figure out how to) create it manually.
Bluetooth PAN tethering works out of the box on Tiger using an Android 8.1 phone. Bluetooth is much less of a battery hog than WiFi.
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