Inside Apple’s Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part for Its New iPhones

Re:Inside Apple’s Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part fo... by mcculley on Thursday September 21, 2023 @05:51PM (#37604921)

I am amused by some of the responses to this. I am traveling right now and needed to stop at a rest area and deal with some email. I just tried to tether my MacBook Pro to my iPhone and once again got “Failed to enable Personal Hotspot”. Those who keep defending Apple’s choices because tethering is “flawless” seem to live in a different universe.

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Re:Inside Apple’s Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part fo... by makeitdouble on Friday September 22, 2023 @05:50AM (#37609990)

It might feel less "magic" that what Apple promises, but doing regular hotspot through wifi might work better. I do it a lot with a pixel phone and it's pretty reliable.

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Re:Inside Apple’s Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part fo... by mcculley on Friday September 22, 2023 @06:10AM (#37610126)

I am unsure of the distinction you are making. In the case I described, I was trying to connect my MacBook Pro to my iPhone 11 Pro via WiFi. After I wrote the above comment, I tried a couple more times and it eventually connected.

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Re:Inside Apple’s Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part fo... by makeitdouble on Friday September 22, 2023 @08:28AM (#37611111)

For me by default the MacBook would bridge the phone connection through bluetooth. And I think there's still some custom stuff happening when choosing the phone in the wi-fi dropdown when the mac identifies that the phone is on the same account and connects without password prompt.

In the iPhone days I "force" connected to the phone hotspot through the standard password required procedure and it did better than the other more convenient options.

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