I wonder which field is responsible for disabling the Personal Hotspot feature? About a year ago mine suddenly got disabled in the phone's UI. Since then, the only time it got enabled was when I was traveling and using a travel eSIM.
It's sad that phone companies allow carriers such anti-user things.
seems like the relevant plist keys are CarrierEntitlements (to be removed from plist) and APN type (to be OR'd with the tether enable mask) see here for example https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Carrier_Bundle
(and BTW, you can find more in-depth articles by quickly googling that term in duckduckgo or elsewhere)
No, there are many SIMs/plans (typically those with unlimited data) that disable the hotspot (so you can't share the data with others or even your own laptop).
I saw this linked from MacRumors during the AT&T iPhone 18 Pro Max lockup news discussions. It was interesting to see what AT&T/Apple did to try to get ahead of the issue. So far it looks like they disabled 5G Standalone mode, possibly just to prevent a bug from literally destroying the hardware (possibly only on one batch of phones).
Apple/AT&T still haven't released any kind of statement addressing the issue other than to replace affected hardware.
I straight up returned my iPhone 18 Pro Max last week. This was infuriating. I was having the baseband lock up and drop to SOS Mode on Verizon, so I got an AT&T eSIM (spent money). Same issue, full loss of connectivity 5 times a day requiring a reboot. So I got a T-Mobile eSIM (spent money). Same issue, full loss of connectivity 5 times a day requiring a reboot.
Then I read online that ONLY the Pro Max uses a Qualcomm modem and the Pro uses Apple C2. My wife's iPhone Air with C2 has great connectivity, better than my 17 Pro Max did before I swapped it for 18.
So I returned the Pro Max, got a Pro, am on T-Mobile full time and my signal strength is good now in buildings that I had 0 or 1 bar before, for years.
You could use SpamBlocker and configure it to block everything. AFAIK you can't do this at the android level. If you don't need outgoing calls either, just use a data-only SIM.
Nice! Thank you for this public service. Phone makers & carriers should be ashamed of themselves for hiding such important configuration behind proprietary formats. If you [lurker] are a decision maker who decided to make our world this way: for shame, for shaaame!
It's sad that phone companies allow carriers such anti-user things.
(and BTW, you can find more in-depth articles by quickly googling that term in duckduckgo or elsewhere)
I have mine on an automation to turn on when I get in my car.
There are apps that can act as a SOCKS proxy for limited hotspottivity. Probably mostly on Android.
No.
Apple/AT&T still haven't released any kind of statement addressing the issue other than to replace affected hardware.
Then I read online that ONLY the Pro Max uses a Qualcomm modem and the Pro uses Apple C2. My wife's iPhone Air with C2 has great connectivity, better than my 17 Pro Max did before I swapped it for 18.
So I returned the Pro Max, got a Pro, am on T-Mobile full time and my signal strength is good now in buildings that I had 0 or 1 bar before, for years.
Fuck Qualcomm.
GNOME is a circus.
A while ago I built a decoder for that (Qualcomm only!), it was fun and helped me improve the support of my device for my carrier.
https://github.com/denysvitali/ca-combos-editor
A very common thing to do in Russia for instance where WiFi calling isn’t available: https://github.com/ios-bundles/CarrierSIM
...and wonder what kinds of settings "restrictive regimes" will use
I could imagine stuff like com.apple.voicemail.imap use SSL => false
mhm!