[arm-allstar] iOS Hotspots became flaky since iOS 13 ?

[John Reardon]

PS
Gerry you may know this but just in case. The hotspot does not like some punctuation marks. I took all out of my phones name. 
Also I think apple reduced the range of the hotspot. I do not have any official info on that but it seems that way. Guess to cut down the load on the battery.   I don’t think it will work well for more than a few feet. This is all from person observation. 

73
John



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> On Feb 10, 2020, at 10:54 PM, Gerry Filby via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I've experienced this myself and have had reports from others.
> 
> Since iOS 13 my nodes running the HamVoIP image are struggling to connect to the Hotspot on my iPhone.
> 
> Apple made some changes including the new "Allow Others to Join" switch in the Personal Hotspot Settings page - I think they are authenticating Apple devices in iCloud.
> 
> So far my experimentation finds that on my phone, if it is connected to WiFi the node completely fails to connect to the Hotspot.  If I move away from WiFi so the iPhone is only on the 5G/4G network the node will eventually connect but not until it's rebooted once or twice.
> 
> I'm wondering if others have experienced something similar ?
> 
> If not, I may have mucked up something in my installation ...
> 
> Best,
> Gerry.
> W6WNG
> 
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