How to Turn Your Phone Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

With a few taps, you can turn your smartphone into a source for internet that laptops, tablets, and other phones can use. Here's how to turn your phone into a hotspot.

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[wesleypage]

Thank you for this video. I was in a pinch and it was really helpful.

[BookofJobXVII]

Sitting here thinking, why pay $100 on internet service when you already paying monthly unlimited internet on your phone for $100+ on your phone that you can use it on your desktop or laptop. Sure. its slower, but as long as you are not using for trading or online gaming is great. The problem is my phone gets super HOT.

[piyushkuhikar]

Please make a video on how to charge your iPhone, I'm really struggling with it right now. I have only got 13% battery 🔋 left on my smartphone . I don't know what I will do once my phone runs out of Juice 🥤.

[apositivelybetterlife]

If I turn off my iPhone's cellular connection, connect the phone to a public WiFi such as in a coffee shop or airport, then activate the phone's hotspot and use my computer (iPad and/or Chromebook) on the internet from my iPhone hotspot, is the data on my computer still vulnerable or does the phone act as a sort of cutout or vpn? I don't type in any passwords in such a situation.
Can PCMag (or someone reading this) answer that question?

[whitrose]

I had to twice check what’s the year the video was published.

[howtotruckdriver]

Is there any firewall for your mobile hotspot?

[bikersoncall]

Win 10 laptop so far only showing me options
to use my laptop as hotspot, not
have my laptop connect to my phone hotspot.
All steps taken shown below;

Android Moto G Pure
trying to use this as hot spot for
my Windows10 laptop, using USB cable;
>Net & internet
mobile, wifi, hotspot
> Hot spot & tethering
> USB Tethering
(laptop still offline)
--
Windows10 laptop; Settings
>Mobile Hotspot
msg; ''We can't set up mobile hot spot
because your pc doesn't have
an Ethernet, wi-fi, or cellular data connection.''
X In other words, the only option I'm finding
with my laptop so far, are to use the
laptop as a hotspot, not have the laptop
use my android as a hotspot.
shrugs...

[danlford]

Is there any way to make your phone only run internet while hotspotting? In other words i dont want any apps running in the background, no phone calls no texts, no nothing but being a hotspot.

[barrycrump]

Please lose the irritating background music.

[NeverStopImproving-wd]

I am a student go into my first year college. What laptops can you recommend in-between $1000-$1500. Nothing Apple please.

[davidkay]

Androi.
Do you know how to set up a phone as a hotspot to allow someone to use it with a password but then block that person from setting up their phone as a hotspot and allowing others to use it, in other words let's say I wanted to sell my hotspot for £1 to user 1 who then opens their hotspot with user 2, can I prevent user 1 from sharing my hotspot

[mollymolohon]

Not what I thought it was ‼️ Lol, had to escape ‼️ HAHAHA

[kevinNoir]

True but the WiFi never had internet access

[AndrewMares-uije]

This is NOT turning your phone into a hot spot. You are describing USEING YOUR WI=FI. I just love people with an intellectual value. Don't you?