How To Airdrop Notes From Mac To Iphone

suppose you're out and about and you've gotyour macbook with you and you want to connect to the internet. but all that's available maybe is wifi youdon't trust or maybe no wifi at all. well you can connect to the internet on yourmacbook through your iphone using most carrier plans today.

How To Airdrop Notes From Mac To Iphone, this is called personal hotspot. look on your iphone, under settings, you'llfind it right there near the top. personal hotspot. you can see i've got it turned off.

if i tap it i can turn it on. notice also there's a password there, a wifipassword. i can change that very easily. once i've turned it on i see it appear onmy mac under wifi. so if i click on the wifi icon here i canlook and, sure enough, i can see right here my iphone, that's the name of my iphone, andyou can see it matches the name shown on that personal hotspot screen. i can select it. if i've never connected to it before i mayhave to enter the password and once i do that

once i'm all set. you can see that instead of getting a littlewifi signal icon up here i get this little link icon to show that i am connected viapersonal hotspot to my iphone. this is called tethering. you can actually do this, you can see on thescreen here using wifi, you can also use bluetooth and it gives you instructions there or evenconnect your macbook to your iphone with the usb cable if you wish. all these work equally as well as all theconnection types are going to be probably faster than you mobile internet connection.

you can then use your macbook as you wouldnormally if you were connected to the internet. now, of course you're using your bandwidthon your phones plan so you want to be careful with this if you've got limited bandwidth. but it's great for just checking your emailor checking something at a website when you don't have any other option. if you have a good bandwidth plan this isprobably a decent option for using on a daily basis perhaps say while taking a train orbus or other mode of transportation to and from work. for instance you can actually check your emailon your mac rather than your phone which sometimes

can be a lot faster with a nice big screenand keyboard and all of that. so i prefer that when i have a chance ratherthan trying to read and answer email or check things on the web on my phone by itself. so it's good to know it's an option there. to get rid of it when you're done you canswitch back to your regular wifi, simply switch wifi off, or you can turn off personal hotspotif you wish on your phone just to make sure you're not connected anymore.