If you have paid for and set up the iPhone to be a wireless hotspot in the past, you might have been left wondering where your iPhone setting for creating it went when you upgraded to iOS 5 or got a new iPhone.
(Read: iPhone 4S Review)
And you’re not alone.Many people were frustrated and bewildered, including me, when we updated to find this feature that we were paying for absent from the new, shiny iOS.
Fortunately getting it back is pretty easy thanks to a tip from the guys at Tipb.com.
How to Fix Missing iPhone 4S Hotspot Settings
Just go into your Settings.
Go to General.
Scroll all the way down to Reset.
Choose Reset Network Settings.
Your phone will go ahead and shut down. When it starts back up, head over to Settings. You should see the hotspot setting back up and running.
If this doesn’t fix your problem, you may need to backup and do a full restore, but this is worth trying before you go down the long restore path.
Thanks, this worked.
I just stumbled upon your article as my issue has resolved itself silently (4S/5.0) and I’m trying to find out how is that possible. I haven’t done anything you’ve mentioned to fix that.
I tried your tips, but is not working, personnal hotspot keeps spinning around.
Me Too… This don’t worked in my IP4S!
This is the matter of battery usage and not a software problem. The function simply disapears when the battery level drops or the phone is not connected through the power cord
its really frustrating just got the new iPhone 4S and my most useful item was the hotspot, its gone.
it has nothing to do with the battery as it is full. I reset my network setting, reset the whole thing, and NOTHING
nope
You can get the hotspot on the iphone 4s, they have moved
the hotspot setting into the network settings, and all you have to do is: in
settings go in to general then in network and select personal hotspot and turn
it on.
Thanks:-)…. Your comment is the only one that actually helped. Cheers!:-).
Yup- you get the gold medal! Thanks!
stop complaining
dear bunch of pussies
SHUT THE FUCK UP U MOTHER FUCKIN WANKER
sincerely Freddy
Guys, I’ve just found out that this f…g option is not visible until you enter Personal Hotspot Credentials in Settings -> General -> Network -> Cellular Data Network
under “Internet Tethering section”
If only you fill in the APN, Username, Password for the section, this option becomes available again!
Hope this helps.
Ummm. Personal Hotspot Credentials? Never heard of those.
(I am having the same problem. Can enable Hotspot but Ipod doesnt list it. Have done reset on both.
YOU know your stuff! It worked when nothing else would!! Thanks!
How to fill APN, username ,and password ?
contact your ISP,or customer care
Nice job.This works :D
Worked perfectly, thanks.
I disappeared Hotspot on iphone how to make me come back
this is not working
what should i do now
have 4s verizon. did reset and nothing more. worked like a charm. thanks
It’s worked, appeared for a second and gone again.. It’s better to leave U my 4S..
It works thanks
Hi the settings with APN works fine. You don’t even have to provide the real ones. Just imagine the APN name for yourself and setup user and password. You have to restart your phone to apply the changes. Thanks a lot :)
Thank you… Its work
that was really helpful- thanks! My hotspot just dissappearred half way through when I was using it!
Don’t listen to all the rest , hotspot is on settings / general / cellular / then turn personal hotspot on
As you said to rest the network on I did bt still hotspot is missing how can I bring it back and why it has gone
hi guys i did reset i ipohne 4s setting and then the personal hotspot disappeared i tried to to reset network setting but still don’t appear what can i do to get it back???
It’s now under mobile data in general settings if you have the 6.1 update
All I did is went to general then cellular then turned on data roaming went back and I got hotspot back then went back and turned off data roaming and still had hot spot
Also their is a hotspot part under data roaming
for me the ‘general, reset’ didnt work but when i went to general, mobile data and set roaming to ‘on’ the hotspot reappeared. Iphone 4s running vers 6.1.1