Macbook Personal Hotspot to your iPhone, iPad or iPod via iPhone USB

Nitipat Wuttisasiwat (Ken)
2 min readDec 6, 2017

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With a macbook wifi connnected, you can share the connection without using more network interface card (e.g Wifi USB Adapter) but use only your iPhone USB, follow these steps.

Quick Step

On your Macbook.
1. Click on the  icon in the top menu bar and select System Preferences.
2. Click on Sharing.
3. Click on Internet Sharing, set Share your connection from: Wifi and To computer using: iPhone USB
4. Check mark next to Internet Sharing in the sidebar.
5. Click Start.

On your iPhone, iPad or iPod
1. Connect device to macbook with a iPhone USB.
2. Turn off wifi and cellular data.
Enjoy your internet!

Screen Capture Step

On your Macbook

1. Click on the  icon in the top menu bar and select System Preferences.
2. Click on Sharing.
3. Click on Internet Sharing, set Share your connection from: Wifi and To computer using: iPhone USB
4 & 5 Check mark next to Internet Sharing in the sidebar then Click Start.

On your iPhone, iPad or iPod

1. Connect device to macbook with a iPhone USB.
2. Turn off wifi and cellular data.
Enjoy your internet!

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Nitipat Wuttisasiwat (Ken)

Innovation Engineer @KBTG, Doing full-stack development both web and Flutter