Turn off your phone VPN for a working personal hotspot

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PSA - Turn off your iPhone’s VPN before turning on your hotspot so that the connected devices will have internet access

Aside from resetting network settings, turning on maximise compatibility, this method might work for you

I had this problem for months wherein any device(iPhones, Android, Mac, Windows) that connects to my hotspot, there is no internet access for the connected device. The common problem is “DNS cannot be resolved”

For some reason, when I turned off my phone’s VPN, the connected devices had internet access suddenly

YMMV, it maybe isolated to my VPN or device only. But hopefully this can help anyone with the same problem as mine, as I haven’t found this context in the internet

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hotspot works even with vpn on my 13 pro on 17.2.1

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Strange because my hotspot works better (faster speeds on tethered devices) when my vpn is enabled.

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how do i keep it from disconnecting?

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Yeah like i mentioned on my last paragpraph, YMMV. This is my experience and would like to share, there might be someone having similar issues as mine

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In theory, the connected devices should not route through to the VPN of the phone (but I think this is possible throuh rooted android), but mine just has this weird issue, so I just decided to share it