Use Instant Hotspot to connect to your Personal Hotspot without entering a password
With Instant Hotspot, you can connect your Apple device to the Personal Hotspot on your iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) without entering its Wi-Fi password.
What you need to use Instant Hotspot
An iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) with an activated network provider plan that is providing Personal Hotspot service. To turn Personal Hotspot on or off or view its Wi-Fi password, go to Settings > Personal Hotspot.
An iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or Apple Vision Pro that meets the system requirements for Instant Hotspot.
The device providing the Personal Hotspot and the device connecting to the Personal Hotspot must be near each other and set up as follows:
Each device is signed in with the same Apple ID.
Each device has both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on.
How to use Instant Hotspot
Connecting to your Personal Hotspot is just like connecting to any other Wi-Fi network. But with Instant Hotspot, you aren’t asked to provide the Wi-Fi password of the Personal Hotspot.
On Mac, click
in or the menu bar, then choose the name of the iPhone or iPad providing your .On iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Apple Vision Pro, go to Settings > Wi-Fi, then tap the name of the iPhone or iPad providing your
.
When connected to your Personal Hotspot, the
on your device changes to the .![Personal Hotspot icon in macOS and iOS after connecting](https://cdsassets.apple.com/live/7WUAS350/images/macos/ventura/macos-ventura-ios16-iphone-14-pro-instant-hotspot.png)
If you can’t connect to your Personal Hotspot
If Personal Hotspot is not working on your iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular)