You may find that you have turned on the Wifi Hotspot on your iPhone yet can’t seem to find the Hotspot when trying to connect from your windows computer. There can be a number of issues causing this problem. Here’s a workaround so that you can find the WiFi Hotspot straight away without waiting for the computer to find it.
- Turn OFF the hotspot on your iPhone
- Turn OFF the WiFi on your computer
- Turn ON the hotspot on your iPhone
- Turn ON the WiFI on your computer
The Wifi Hotspot should now show up on your Windows Computer almost immediately. If it doesn’t there may be other issues to investigate. It has been reported that if your iPhone name has any characters which aren’t alpha numeric such as an apostrophe it makes it harder for Wifi to find the iPhone hotspot.
To see if this is the case – from your iPhone:
- Click to Settings
- Click on General
- Click on About
- Click on Name
- Remove any characters that aren’t alphanumeric
- Repeat the steps in the first solution above and see if you can now see your iPhone Wifi Hotspot.
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If this works this will be awesome. This is the only post I’ve seen to address this issue. Don’t have time to test it now but I have a feeling that the apostrophe in my phone’s name is most likely the culprit since Windows is so touchy about such things.
Did not work for me…
My experience has been that the hotspot is not visible unless the iPhone is on the “Personal Hotspot” page.
I get exactly the sane.
This is the only thing that worked for me! Simple and easy, too. thanks for posting.
This just worked for me. Thanks for helping me save time.
Spent the last 3 hours trying to get it to work. Followed this tip. Didn’t think it would have the slightest chance of working and it worked immediately. Great tip!
Thank you for sharing that it worked for you as it msde sceptical me try it! And it worked!! The instructions were so simple that I dudnt believe it wiul work!! Thank yoi!!
Iv done everything I possibly can including this and iv literally read about 125 pages full of things that could help and my hotspot still won’t show but everyone else’s will I don’t understand this
IOS iPhone 15+
personal hotspot is seen and connected to from another Android and iPhone Xr phone.
ROKU and WinPC do not see the hotspot name when scanned.
Did all the on/off steps. Not seeing iPhone15 hotspot on network scan.