{"id":37949,"date":"2022-12-22T16:59:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T21:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37949"},"modified":"2022-12-22T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T21:59:43","slug":"fixing-the-failed-to-enable-personal-hotspot-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/22\/fixing-the-failed-to-enable-personal-hotspot-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing the &ldquo;Failed to Enable Personal Hotspot&rdquo; Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tempel.org\/2022\/12\/failed-to-enable-personal-hotspot-on.html\">Thomas Tempelmann<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.tempel.org\/2022\/12\/failed-to-enable-personal-hotspot-on.html\"><p>Some of my older Macs running High Sierra or Mojave were unable to join the Personal Hotspot of one or even two of my iPhones.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>There is a file called <tt>com.apple.airport.preferences.plist<\/tt> in the folder <tt>\/Library\/Preferences\/SystemConfiguration<\/tt>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Delete this file. But that will also reset all your network interfaces[&#8230;]<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>If you&rsquo;re more adept, edit the file, e.g. with the app PrefEdit or BBEdit, then find all entries that mention &ldquo;phone&rdquo;, and remove those. After saving the changes, you should be able to reconnect to the phone without even requiring a restart.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Tempelmann: Some of my older Macs running High Sierra or Mojave were unable to join the Personal Hotspot of one or even two of my iPhones.[&#8230;]There is a file called com.apple.airport.preferences.plist in the folder \/Library\/Preferences\/SystemConfiguration.[&#8230;]Delete this file. But that will also reset all your network interfaces[&#8230;][&#8230;]If you&rsquo;re more adept, edit the file, e.g. with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-12-22T21:59:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"5286fb22-3c7f-4ad3-a273-dc7e7b10353f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-12-22T21:59:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AUob7Ijx_StOic9x-exA1Pw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,986,1529,1609,751,1174],"class_list":["post-37949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-cellular-data","tag-macos-10-13","tag-macos-10-14","tag-network-neutrality","tag-personal-hotspot"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37950,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37949\/revisions\/37950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}