Cannot Connect to Personal Hotspot (iPad Mini Retina WiFi to iPhone 5)

sir, please try to connect your ipad to your ip5s when your ip5s is still on the personal hotspot window.. ü

 

Just keep toggling the wifi button of your ipad until it sees your IP5. What I usually do just to be sure is to turn off both the ip5 hotspot & the iPad wifi, once they're both off, turn on the hotspot first, & then after a few seconds, turn on the wifi of the iPad. In my case, it's been a surefire method that the idevices will see & communicate with each other.

 

have you tried my suggestion above?

 

or force restart both iphone and ipad (press home and sleep button simultaneously)

 

When this happens, I do the same procedure. It works every time whether it's the iPad, MBA or MBP for me.

 

hi greta, try my suggestion i think it works 100% of the time..
for testing purposes try connecting to hotspot when your hotspot device is not on the personal hotspot window then try again connecting to hotspot when your device is on personal hotspot window

 

^ thanks but I think you directed your suggestion to the wrong person. He he. I'm not the OP.

 

it is for you, you said that you always turn off/on when the devices doesnt see each other..

 

Ok thanks. But I think your suggestion doesn't apply to me anymore since as I mentioned, sometimes the idevices don't/ can't see each other regardless of what window you're looking at anymore. & when I say that, I, of course, refer to the fact that I've already done that hotspot window thing that you're suggesting. Besides, I have multiple Apple devices that have their own peculiar quirks with regard to connecting with an iPhone hotspot, whether it was with my old iPhones or its current iteration, & the best solution for me so far has been the toggling thing which has worked for me 100% of the time, regardless of whatever Apple device, iMac, MBP, MBA, iPod or IPad that I need connected. Don't get me wrong,I appreciate the suggestion, except that the remedy to whatever issues I have with the hotspot (which I discovered through the help of fellow Philmuggers by the way) has gone beyond what you have suggested to me as a solution, .

 

ok, np. that was long ü

 

just reset your network settings,both the ipad and iphone.

 

try to "Forget" the hotspot network from your ipad, then re-connect to the hotspot and re-enter your password. sometimes changing passwords works for me too.

 

The personal hotspot of the ipad mini retina always stops whenever i lock the screen of the ipad and the iphone. Is there a fix to this? Besides bluetooth?