When you are going to buy a new iPad surely you have many doubts about whether to make an extra outlay and buy it with the possibility of connecting it to mobile data or staying only with the WiFi connection. If you opt for this second option you should keep in mind that if you are on the street and need to perform some type of task on the iPad you can do it by sharing the data of the rate of your iPhone with the tablet in a simple way.
Although it is extremely convenient to have a connection on the iPad to be able to be connected to the internet from anywhere without having to use the iPhone, we always want to save money. If we do not take out the iPad for a long time from home it may not be worth paying the more than 100 euros that you have to pay extra to have the possibility of having a virtual SIM card. That is why the most advisable measure is to share the data of our own iPhone to the iPad and then we tell you the steps you must take to do it.
How to share mobile data from iPhone
If we want to share our mobile data with another computer such as a Mac, an iPhone or any other device, we must first create a personal access point. To do so we simply follow the following steps:
- On the iPhone go to Settings.
- At the top we will find the option ‘Personal access point’ where we will press.
- In this menu we simply have to activate the option “Allow others to connect” and at the bottom we will have the possibility to choose the password.
- As if it were from a WiFi network we can impose a password although it is not necessary to connect the iPad.
It is important to highlight this last step since if we have several computers registered in the same Apple ID, you will not need to enter any password. This means that if both the iPhone and the iPad is ours and we have both our Apple ID, we should not enter a password, although other people should do it as is logical.
Connect to the iPhone network from iPad
Once we have created this network, our iPhone will act as if it were a router and we should simply search for the network from the iPad. To do this we must follow the following steps:
- On your iPad go to ‘Settings’.
- In the sidebar we will go to the option called ‘WiFi’.
- At the top we will find ourselves as a network that will be called ‘iPhone of …’ following our name or as we have baptized it. We will click on this and as we said before we will not need to enter any password.
It is important to note that in this way we will share our rate data. In other competing devices we have the possibility to share a WiFi network as such. That is, if we are at home connected to the WiFi network we can share this with other computers but Apple believes that this is not important to implement and is limited to this option that we have explained.
