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So I'm in a hotel room on my iPad when I see my iPhone's hotspot is available (1 Viewer)

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That's weird I say to myself, I'm sure that's not turned on.

I check my phone and sure enough hotspot is off

Huh, well let's choose it from iPad and see what happens.

As I do so I see it UNLOCK the hotspot on my phone and turn it on

WTF witchcraft is this?

So we go searching.

It's called Instant Hotspot only available to devices logged in on same iCloud account, pretty cool, not sure how I missed that announcement...

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204681
 

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I've been using that the past year to tether my iPad to my iPhone when hotel is misbehaving. I thought it was just iPhone tethering that got activated with recently upgraded data plans.
 

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