Making of Automated Tethering of iPhone to iPad Tutorial

Making of Automated Tethering of iPhone to iPad Tutorial

The animated GIF presentation featuring in yesterday’s Automated Tethering of iPhone to iPad Tutorial featured …

• iPad control-command-shift-3 generated screenshot images making their way to Photos app … and …
• iPhone control-command-shift-3 generated screenshot images making their way to Photos app … and …
• coalescing back at Photos app so as to be able to Mail share in a zip file download (iPad ones getting named in the range IMG_1631.PNG to IMG_1639.PNG and iPhone ones in the range IMG_2777.PNG to IMG_2781.PNG) …
• at this MacBook Air … so as to …
• browse for these images as the source for that animated GIF’s contents …

… but in order to tell the story of that blog posting well, what order (because we captured the “story’s images” involving interplay that had us jumping from one device to the other and back)?

Well, at macOS operating systems you get (downloaded) image file …

• datetime created
• datetime added
• datetime modified

… but after downloading, these all end up indistinguishable. What we need is …


datetime image captured


… to make the job easier (albeit, and we did as well, you could load them all into a PDF and use application like macOS Preview to reorder them appropriately (hopefully soon after) from memory)? Oops! Or, is the image metadata going to help us here? These are PNG images and Exif is best with JPEG images, but still, we remember looking into this when we presented the PHP Exif Image Information Revisit Tutorial blog posting that resulted in the PHP (“first draft”) “Exif Information” web application (as the basis for better “Exif Information” web application later on).

We ran this on our local MAMP Apache/PHP/MySql web server …

… and there was enough there to go on to help out getting the order better (where you’ll see us using …

• iPhone Notes app …
  
  … to write down image identifier and capture datetimes … marrying that up when …
• choosing order of images when constructing animated GIF … and sanity checking via …
• macOS Preview application approach that is so good at shaping to (or really) rearranging slide image orders

). Phew!

Previous relevant Automated Tethering of iPhone to iPad Tutorial is shown below.

Automated Tethering of iPhone to iPad Tutorial

Thinking on yesterday’s Automated Tethering of iPhone to Mac Tutorial, the next day …

Was in the car doing a bit of work on the iPad (iOS (8th generation) Version 16.3.1), unconnected at the time, the other day, when we didn’t got get a surprise. Lo and behold, a To infinity and beyond, we looked, but no notification style dialog box came up.

But we went looking in …


Settings -> Wi-Fi -> Auto Join Hotspot


… and discovered the setting was set to “Ask to Join” while we think a better setting to get the ball rolling, here, would be “Automatic” (rather than “Never”). And so it came to pass.

And though we had to adjust Personal Hotspot settings on the iPhone to allow others to connect (automatically, now), Wi-Fi connections on the iPad became automated, and we did get connected to the big wide online connected wooooorrrrrllllldddd on the iPad via the iPhone’s Personal Hotspot this way! Yayyyyyy!

Previous relevant Automated Tethering of iPhone to Mac Tutorial is shown below.

Automated Tethering of iPhone to Mac Tutorial

Was in the car doing a bit of work on the MacBook Air (macOS Sonoma Version 14.5), unconnected at the time, the other day, when we got a surprise. Lo and behold, a notification style dialog box came up …

Personal Hotspot Available
Do you want to join “Robert’s iPhone”?

… presumably because we had our iPhone in the car (and had invoked its Personal Hotspot functionality in the past, as you can read about with Troubleshooting Retethering Windows 10 to iPhone Tutorial) and then, on hovering over it (it took me a day to tweak to) came up with …

Personal Hotspot Available
Do you want to join “Robert’s iPhone”?     Join

… that on clicking the Join button had us connected to the big wide online connected wooooorrrrrllllldddd without needing to do anything on the iPhone! Great integration!

We looked up with Google’s Image search via …


Personal Hotspot Available


… in “full FOMO horror”, getting us to read this webpage, thanks, to see that some people even expect more?! Impressive enough, and stop there, we’d say.

Previous relevant Troubleshooting Retethering Windows 10 to iPhone Tutorial is shown below.

Troubleshooting Retethering Windows 10 to iPhone Tutorial

You might say today’s “Troubleshooting Retethering Windows 10 to iPhone Tutorial” is missing a “Tethering Windows 10 to iPhone Primer Tutorial” on top of the Tethering MacBook Pro to iPhone Primer Tutorial involving the macOS wooooooorrrrrrllllllddd, but sometimes we can intimate the positives during an explanation of the negatives (… and after all that’s what it’s all about).

And yes, things go wrong in I.T.? Who’d believe it? And so, today, we had just such a disconnect re-rehearsing a way to have a Windows 10 laptop be connected to the Internet away from a WiFi router scenario offsite, but taking along the “lassooable” iPhone 6 (you guessed it … as had been done successfully in the past). Well, another whole consideration is “why would the iPhone 6 Personal Hotspot (turned on) not appear in the Windows 10 WiFi connection list” but today’s troubleshooting theme goes past that onto the practicalities of Forgetting the whY and adding the MCAand concentrating on the “how” of “how to fix this”, which via good ol’ Google …


windows 10 will not connect to iphone 6 personal hotspot


… leading us to today’s star turn link (thanks) …

1 Press Windows Key + I shortcut to quickly open the Settings app.
2 When Settings app opens, navigate to Network & Internet section
3 From the menu on the left select Wi-Fi. Now click on Manage known networks.
4 List of memorized Wi-Fi networks will appear. Select your Wi-Fi network and click the Forget button.
5 Then connect to your hotspot network again.

… curiously precursored by a presumption we do not believe to have been true surmising that the hotspot password had changed. No worries, though, because the advice helped, that being to first …

1. Forget the network (on Windows 10 laptop)
2. Retry the reopened Personal Hotspot network (on iPhone 6)
3. Back at same place you “Forgot”, suddenly “remember” via Properties set “Connect Automatically When in Range” on (on Windows 10 laptop) … perhaps needing the iPhone 6 Personal Hotspot password

… that last step above an “addendum” to the great advice quoted above, and summarized via today’s animated GIF presentation.

Voila! Connection for Windows 10 in a scenario where there is no WiFi router but an iPhone 6 Personal Hotspot is available. We have to say, though, two things …

• the iPhone needs Mobile Data to be on, and to get a signal to its ISP here … and that …
• this is likely to cost you more in cold hard cash than your home WiFi arrangements would, in all probability, for the time it takes to get the work done, in this Personal Hotspot way (and for people called “Personal Hotspot” … My way)

We hope you never have this issue, and thank the contributors to troubleshooting advice, who have, and by sharing online, thereby getting answers out of people we’d like to thank, too … Dzięki.

Previous relevant Tethering MacBook Pro to iPhone Primer Tutorial is shown below.

Tethering MacBook Pro to iPhone Primer Tutorial

Today we talk about a networking topic, regarding the idea if you are out and about, out of reach of WiFi connections, with your laptop, notebook or MacBook Pro, but you have available to you a device such as an Android or iPhone or iPad or tablet with inbuilt SIM card network connector, that networks via a mobile network (eg. here in Australia a 4G (soon to go to 5G) network) you (and we) can, perhaps …

• “tether” your laptop, notebook or MacBook Pro (Robert’s MacBook Pro) … to that …
• Android or iPhone (Robert’s iPhone) or iPad or tablet with inbuilt SIM card network connector accessing its mobile network (such as, here in Australia, 4G (soon to become 5G))

No, our MacBook Pro is not Mister Ed, but we do form a “stable” connection … chortle, chortle.

The clue to all this is, for us, in the iPhone’s …


Settings -> Personal Hotspot -> switch on


… and there you will see three modes of “hotspotting” …

1. WiFi
2. Bluetooth … enable on both and “Pair” on both
3. USB … we use in Xcode running and testing mobile applications on iPhone (or iPad)

… the first of which is great with that scenario we talked about at the top of the article.

1. be on iPhone and touch Settings icon
2. touch Personal Hotspot
3. touch to be On
4. over at MacBook Pro and click Settings icon
5. click WiFi
6. pick Robert’s iPhone (or equivalent) in the list and it will have that “tethering” icon (two linked ellipses)
7. voila! … you can surf the net, read your emails and do any of those other “online” activities … but be aware that this arrangement usually costs more in service charges

You can take a look at our PDF slideshow presentation of some of these concepts.

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