How to block "Personal Hotspot (Tethering)"?

Hello,
I want to block or deactivate the "personal hotspot" function on iPad or iPhone. We want to disallow the use of this function for all of our users.
I checked the "Apple Configurator" and also our MDM solution. It is not possible to block. Also our phone provider is not able to deactivate this function.
Is it possible to send a "mobileconfig"-File or a "IPCC"-File to the device? Someone has an idea?
Many Thanks
Tobias

I thought iOS 7.0 added Personal Hotspot control to the MDM or at least the ability to monitor such.

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FiveLittleFish wrote:
Is your phone on a tethering plan? If not, the option won't appear.
I'm not on the tethering plan and I've got the "Set Up Personal Hotspot" option under my network setting. I haven't pressed it it see if would actually let me do it, but the option is there. The phone isn't jailbroken and has never had anything but the factory software on it.
Prior to the hotspot, I had the set up tethering option too. From what I've heard, though, everyone had the option, but it wouldn't actually work unless you had the tethering turned on by AT&T.
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Message was edited by: Dave Williams

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And just what is the problem you are having? We can't offer a solution without knowing the problem. If you want to know how to use the hotspot, there are instructions available with a simple search.

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Personal Hotspot refers to the Internet-sharing feature on iPhone 3GS or later, iPad (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular or later, and iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular. This article explains how to share your cellular data connection using Personal Hotspot. Refer to the User Guide for additional information on Personal Hotspot.
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How to fix Personal Hotspot

Hey all,
If like many people you're having problems connecting to Personal Hotspot (especially from an iPad) read up!
I was getting really frustrated with connecting my iPad to my 4S via Personal Hotspot. After a fresh boot of the phone it would work as expected but if the connection was terminated (say by switching hotspot off and on) or after the two hadn't been connected for a while it got into this state where I could see and connect to the hotspot but it would drop a few seconds later then try again over and over.
After a lot of experimenting I finally figured out that there seems to be a pretty serious bug in the hotspot's DHCP server. AP discovery and WPA authentication work great but in this weird state the iPhone will not give the connecting device an IP. The only solution to fix the DHCP server is to reboot the phone.
To avoid having to constantly reboot the phone, you need to give the connecting device a static IP address. This gets around the DHCP issue.
For the less technically inclined, here's how to do that with an iPad:
- Reboot your phone and connect to the hotspot as usual and ensure the connection works
- On the iPad go to Settings - WiFi and tap the arrow to the right of your iPhone's name
- Write down all the values you see under the DHCP tab
- Tap the Static tab
- Enter in the same values you just wrote down
- Hit "WiFi Networks" at the top to go back
The iPad will now reconnect using the same settings as DHCP would have given it, but without relying on the broken DHCP server. Subsequent connections will use this same information too. This is also faster than having the iPad wait for DHCP to respond so it's not a bad idea even if yours usually works.
Optional extra: Instead of using whatever DNS values the DHCP server (and by extension your mobile data ISP) gives you, use OpenDNS IP's instead. This will speed up YouTube due to their partnership with Google and prevent your ISP from traking your web usage via DNS interception. To do this enter the following into the DNS field under the Static tab: 208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220 (note the comma)
Cheers,
Graham

I found this happend to my ipad 1 and nothing seemed to resolve the problem......But I found a way around this quite easy: 1. Turn on personal hotspot on your iphone or what ever phone you may have that has this feature. 2. turn on bluetooth on your phone and your ipad. 3. search devices on your ipad and find your phone through the bluetooth feature. 4. now connect the 2 devices and your phone will start to flash "personal hotspot connection"
Your ipad infact does not even need a personal hotspot icon anymore to connect to your phone, its all done through bluetooth anyway. The only downside is that you will not be able to connect the 2 devices via wifi which you could do after 5.1.1 update , but at least you can still tether your 2 devices and enjoy internet on your ipad without needing a 3G sim version of ipad. Hope this helped

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I have an iPhone 5s 16gb and an iPad Air 32gb (non cellular).
I'm having issues with the personal hotspot working/not working intermittently. It never connects first time, even though wireless,Bluetooth and hotspot are all turned on, I have to toggle them off then on again for my iPad to pick up my iPhone.
Even then my iPhone says I have one device connected but iPad doesn't show as connected and wont work, again toggling on and off seems to rectify this and it will connect after a couple more attempts.
If I leave my iPad for a couple of minutes and it sleeps the connection is lost again and I have to go through the rigmarole of toggling everything on and off again to get it reconnected.
I was led to believe that with IOS8 the personal hotspot experience was supposed to be a lot easier, it certainly doesn't appear that way at the moment............if anything it's worse. You would have thought that this would have been a piece of functionality that should work flawlessly but Apple appear to have dropped the ball on this one.
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Hi All,
I have an iPhone 5s 16gb and an iPad Air 32gb (non cellular).
I'm having issues with the personal hotspot working/not working intermittently. It never connects first time, even though wireless,Bluetooth and hotspot are all turned on, I have to toggle them off then on again for my iPad to pick up my iPhone.
Even then my iPhone says I have one device connected but iPad doesn't show as connected and wont work, again toggling on and off seems to rectify this and it will connect after a couple more attempts.
If I leave my iPad for a couple of minutes and it sleeps the connection is lost again and I have to go through the rigmarole of toggling everything on and off again to get it reconnected.
I was led to believe that with IOS8 the personal hotspot experience was supposed to be a lot easier, it certainly doesn't appear that way at the moment............if anything it's worse. You would have thought that this would have been a piece of functionality that should work flawlessly but Apple appear to have dropped the ball on this one.
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From Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3574
Personal Hot spot
iOS System Requirements > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3574
Understanding > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4517
Trouble Shooting > http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2756

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Idea is not a supported carrier.
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I just spent three days with ATT pointing out to them that their website stated a Personal Hotspot would be available for the IPAD 2 with the release of 4.3. I directed them to the page that quoted it. It was a press release dated March 10. It shows the prices for Tethering. They are pointing fingers to Apple. I don't believe them! If you want the link I will email it to you. This post won't allow me to cut and paste the link to ATT's Website.
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Thank you for your response. Verizon offers tethering/ Hotspot on some of their tablets. I personally demonstrated this before I bought my IPAD2. I understand what IOS4.3 offers on the IPHONE4. The IPAD2 is capable of the same. Apple even admitted it to me via phone conversations. They only sympathized with me after an hour of phone patches between ATT and Apple.
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Let me know if this changes your mind? Thank you!
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AT&T* today announced it will sell iPad 2 in its retail and business channels beginning Friday, March 11 at 5 p.m. local time. Online sales will be available at http://www.att.com/iPad at 1 a.m. pacific time. AT&T offers several convenient billing options, none of which require a long-term contract. Customers can choose between AT&T’s prepaid billing options, which are charged to a credit card account, or recently announced postpaid plans that can be added to customers’ existing monthly wireless statements. For a limited time, customers who activate a new postpaid $25/2 GB plan will receive the first month free**.
“We are thrilled to offer iPad 2 in our stores and give customers several easy ways to connect to the nation’s fastest mobile broadband network,” said Glenn Lurie, president—Emerging Devices, AT&T Mobility & Consumer Markets.
Customers may choose from the following options.
Monthly statements: $14.99 for 250 MB or $25 for 2 GB*. Customers who exceed their monthly data allotment will be billed $14.99 for another 250MB on the $14.99 plan or $10 per 1 GB of overage on the 2 GB plan.
Credit card billing: $14.99 for 250 MB or $25 for 2 GB**. Customers who exceed their monthly data allotment may choose to purchase another 250 MB on the $14.99 plan or purchase an additional 2 GB for $25 on the 2 GB plan.
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AT&T retail stores will be open during normal business hours on Friday.
For the complete array of AT&T offerings, visit http://www.att.com/.

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Also if you take new after there close too about other new iPad there not import maybe we are happy with our product.
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