HT203302 How to get Personal Hotspot working consistently?

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.
Wondered if anyone else is having similar issues? Maybe I have missed a setting somewhere that I don't know about but if anyone can help that would be great.
Thanks, Andy.

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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.
Wondered if anyone else is having similar issues? Maybe I have missed a setting somewhere that I don't know about but if anyone can help that would be great.
Thanks, Andy.

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