{"id":28881,"date":"2023-07-26T19:56:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T02:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=28881"},"modified":"2023-07-26T19:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T02:56:49","slug":"tiny-tip-tether-kindle-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/tiny-tip-tether-kindle-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Tip – How to Tether Your Kindle to Your iPhone\u2019s Hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Maximize
Maximize Compatibility Toggle in iOS Hotspot Settings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the plane out to Chicago for Macstock<\/a>, I finished the book I was reading on my Kindle. One of my favorite things about reading on a Kindle is that I can easily buy another book and keep on reading. I don\u2019t have to wait until I can find a bookstore, or drag along several heavy, made-of-wood books.<\/p>\n

When I got to my hotel, I used my Mac to buy another book from Amazon and sent it to my Kindle. I turned on the Kindle, and went to WiFi settings, but realized I wouldn\u2019t be able to connect to the hotel WiFi. Connecting to WiFi had the typical interstitial popup page where you have to enter your hotel room number and your name. The Kindle does have an \u201cexperimental browser\u201d that\u2019s been experimental for about 10 years now, but connecting to the hotel WiFi didn\u2019t make the popup happen.<\/p>\n

No worries. Books are just mostly text files so they\u2019re wee tiny, which means even the worst cell phone signal over tethering would be good enough to download my book. My iPhone\u2019s hotspot was enabled, but when I opened up the WiFi section of my Kindle, my iPhone wasn\u2019t visible in the list of available hotspots.<\/p>\n

I tried rebooting the Kindle, turning off the hotspot on my phone, and on again, but nothing would make my iPhone\u2019s hotspot appear.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a solution to the problem and that\u2019s our Tiny Tip for today. In Settings > Personal Hotspot, you\u2019ll see a toggle called \u201cMaximize Compatibility\u201d. If you toggle it on, the Kindle can immediately see the WiFi created by your iPhone. As soon as I connected, I was able to download my book in short order.<\/p>\n

Underneath the Maximize Compatibility toggle it says \u201cInternet performance may be reduced for devices connected to your hotspot when turned on.\u201d That\u2019s nice, but I got curious about what it was actually doing under the hood. I know Apple doesn\u2019t want us to worry our pretty little heads about such things, but I like to understand things.<\/p>\n

I had a theory about what this toggle might be doing, but I wanted to confirm my theory. I looked for an Apple support article explaining it, and while they did explain when<\/em> to use it, the support article didn\u2019t say what it actually does. I kept digging and I eventually found a tutorial by Apple that says:<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonal Hotspot uses a 5 GHz connection by default. On iPhone 12 or later, you can turn on Maximize Compatibility for Personal Hotspot to use a 2.4 GHz connection. \u201c<\/p>\n

That confirmed my theory. I was pleased to be right, pleased to find the answer in writing from Apple, but I was glad I found this for another reason. I had stumbled across the Apple Device Support Tutorials at it-training.apple.com\/…<\/a>. If you\u2019re an Apple Certified Support Professional, you already know about these tutorials, but I sure didn\u2019t know they existed.<\/p>\n

\"Apple
Apple Device Support Tutorials<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While this series of tutorials is designed to prepare people for the Apple Certified Support Professional test, the tutorials are available to all of us for free!<\/p>\n

The tutorials assume you know your way around Apple devices, so they get you that deeper knowledge you may have been seeking about how things work. I guess that\u2019s two Tiny Tips in one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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