Instant Hotspot doesn't "just work."

I have a rMBP15 and a iPhone 6 Plus and want the mac to tether to the iPhone using Instant Hotspot. It does... sometimes. Then it doesn't and I have to go through a seemingly endless cycle of shutting down and rebooting, deleting and reestablishing network settings, etc., before it starts working again fairly dependably, until it stops working again. It's not working right now, and the shutting down and rebooting or both devices, and the turning off and on of WiFi and Bluetooth on both devices, has not turned it on again. So at this point I typically have to bring out the big guns of reseting network settings and forgetting networks and setting everything up from scratch. Which is a royal pain. What's going on?

More info: Both devices have the latest OS versions as of today. I can pair the rMBP15 and iP6+ and then manually tether via Personal Hotspot, so there is no problem with the hardware, cellular carrier, or old software.

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