iOS 16.7.2 here and unless my hotspot is actively in use at all times, it will disconnect any and all devices connected to it after approx 5-10 minutes of standby. Irks me to no end. Activate a family member’s Android hotspot and it’ll stay on until we deactivate it.

Also struggle to get any of my ereaders to connect to my hotspot, even when “maximize…” is on. What a hot mess Apple, do better!

I hotspot to my windows laptop on the weekends when I’m out and about, iPhone is always locked, but my windows laptop is never disconnected

Funny i had this problem with my huawei when it was locked and far away from computer it just turned off the hotspot

Rubbish, I use my hotspot with the screen locked and still in my pocket.

2020 se doesn’t happen to me USB or wifi

I’ve had the same issue, the Hotspot is unstable sometimes it just won’t connect. Has been the most annoying part but lately it’s been okay.

I usually connect to my hotspot during transfers and i never got problems, maybe you need to manually turn it on if you want to connect but i always maintained connection

Happens quite often on my 11 pro, no issue with my 15 pro. Probably due to 11 pro having a shitty intel modem

100000% agree. You can keep hotspot on and visible at all times, so any device can join in, not only Apple devices that are under the same Apple account or family members, some can be scheduled to turn off after an x amount of time, some can even act as a router depending on hardware and root access.

Years ago when I used to jailbreak, there were tools to make similar functions for iPhone, but I don’t touch jailbreak for more than a decade now.

I know many don’t have this issue, but a lot of people do. Just a quick look at Apple forums and you can see “my hotspot stops when screen is locked” types of post.

I do wish it would be similar on how it’s done in Android.

Personal hotspot doesn’t disconnect because locked screen but rather if there is no network traffic I think.
Im pretty sure it’s not about locking the screen but could be wrong.
But there is different problem that probably not much people recognized.
You can’t simply run hotspot and click power button to off the screen.
Hotspot is only visible to devices when you STAY on Hotspot settings for few seconds before second device connects to it.
This is kinda annoying.

Yes, I hate this. I usually use my iPhone hotspot for work so it’s annoying when I’m randomly doing something on the PC and it just shuts off for no reason.

A bit hard to understand you but no iOS does not disconnect all the devices when you lock the phone. I often use hotspot because the internet at work is shit. My phone does not have to be unlock all day, that would be stupid.

I think iOS does disconnect the device if there is no network activity after a certain time but I am not very sure about this. Correct me if I am wrong.

I used my phone as hot spot for my PC for around 4 weeks daily for sometimes up to 16 hours non stop because I had a problem with my internet provider. Never had any problems with this and honestly never heard of this by anyone either. Sounds like a you and your brother problem to me.

Never had that issue and using it all the time for years.