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- Turn on your hotspot
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You can use your phone's mobile data to connect another phone, tablet or computer to the Internet. Sharing a connection this way is called tethering or using a hotspot. Some phones can share Wi-Fi connection by tethering.
Most Android phones can share mobile data by Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or USB.
Important: Some mobile operators limit or charge extra for tethering. We recommend checking with your operator.
Important: Some of these steps work only on Android 9 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.
1. Swipe down from the top of the screen.
2. Tap Hotspot .
If you don’t find Hotspot , at the bottom left, tap Edit and drag Hotspot into your Quick Settings.
Connect another device to your phone's hotspot
1. On the other device, open that device's list of Wi-Fi options.
2. Pick your phone's hotspot name.
Tether by Wi-Fi
1. Swipe down from the top of the screen.
2. Touch and hold Hotspot .
3. Turn on Wi-Fi hotspot.
Tip: To find or change your hotspot name or password, tap it. You may need to first tap Set up Wi-Fi hotspot.
Tether by Bluetooth
• Plug in your devices while tethering.
• Turn off tethering connections when you've finished with them.
Feb 5, 2019 · You can use wired tethering if you wish—it should be as simple as plugging in your Android phone or tablet via a USB cable and then enabling USB tethering on your mobile device.
Sep 3, 2023 · If you don't have access to Wi-Fi on your PC, you can plug your Android phone into a USB port and use its mobile data via tethering. It can be tricky, though.
- Shikhar Mehrotra
You can also do this a different way by purchasing a USB-C to RJ45 Ethernet ( LAN) adapter cable (ideally with Android v11 installed), which might work better if you’re using a device that doesn’t have a USB-C port or support tethering via USB (we didn’t try this ourselves).
Dec 2, 2017 · A guide on how to share a Wi-Fi network or hotspot to a computer that doesn’t support Wi-Fi using an Android phone’s USB tethering.