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 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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