How To Hotspot - iPhone Go to Settings > Personal Hotspot, or Settings > Cellular > Personal Hotspot. Turn on Allow Others to Join. Stay on this screen on your iPhone and go to the list of WIFI networks on your laptop (this might take 30 seconds to a minute to show up) Example of hotspot names to show up in the WIFI list, include "VTO-iPhone-XXXXX" Enter the password (if you wish to change the password, you can do it from the wifi password section)