There's a special kind of panic that hits when your iPhone's Personal Hotspot refuses to work on a deadline. No Wi-Fi in sight, your laptop is useless, and the one feature standing between you and connectivity has gone dark.
The vast majority of hotspot failures come down to a handful of simple settings: cellular data switched off, Personal Hotspot toggled out of place, or a network configuration that's quietly gone wrong. Occasionally a carrier issue or software bug is to blame, but those are easier to fix than they sound.
