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How To Share Mobile Or Cellular Data To Another Phone | Tether Your Smartphone Cell Plan
May 11, 2025
This is a simple guide, with screenshots, showing you three (3) different ways you can tether your cell plan to share your mobile data with a friend, an acquaintance, or even a random stranger who needs your help.
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have you ever been with a friend an
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acquaintance a family member who needed
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to use internet on their device and for
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some reason maybe they ran out of data
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you have some mobile data on your line
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and you'd like to share with them that
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happens every now and then did you know
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that there are three three different
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ways that you can share mobile data with
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another device come with me
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you have an active mobile data plan a
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subscription and you need to share with
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your spouse with a sibling with a friend
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with a colleague with a random person
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somewhere who needs to be able to use
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internet on their phone like I said
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there are three methods three different
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ways that you can do it
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let's start with the first one and it's
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probably the one that a lot of people
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are aware of but there are two others
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we'll come to those so that first one is
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what we call a Wi-Fi hotspot you hear
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hotspot hotspot you're turning your
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phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot so that it
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shares your mobile data with another
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phone who now connects to that hotspot
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to use the
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internet to do that go into the settings
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of your phone whether it's an iPhone or
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an Android phone it doesn't matter some
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of the procedures that I am sharing with
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you will differ some of the terms will
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differ depending on your smartphone
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manufacturer and how they choose to
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customize their user interface but the
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principles are the
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same this is an Android phone and we're
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going to use it it runs stock Android so
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go to the settings of that phone scroll
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down to network and internet at the top
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there right
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there and if you look down you are going
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to see hotspot and tether under hotspot
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and tethering there is Wi-Fi hotspot so
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you tap on Wi-Fi hotspot that's what
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we're talking about now and you toggle
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it
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on if you're using it for the first time
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you need to set a name a unique name for
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it and you can use the name of the phone
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you can get creative
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then you also need to set a password
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because anytime you want to share your
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hotspot with a friend or with anybody
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they have to find your device using that
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name and you have to give them that
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password please do not set up your
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hotspot without setting up a password
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why is
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that if you set up your hotspot without
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assigning it a password anytime you turn
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it on anyone can connect to it and use
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your data
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and they can wipe out your mobile data
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subscription unless you are on an
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unlimited plan that's just a recipe for
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disaster so the first thing you do
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assign a name and then set a password
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and now you're ready to share with
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anyone just ask your friend or whoever
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you want to share with to go to their
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Wi-Fi search for your for your phone's
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name and then tap on it and then enter
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the password that you give to them and
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they're connected to you and they can
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start using your mobile data on their
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device don't forget to like this video
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like this you can get
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notified but I said there are three ways
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it's good to have options and I can tell
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you scenarios in which I got stuck with
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one and I was able to use one of the
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other two so we go back
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to hotspot and tethering under Wi-Fi
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hotspot you're going to see USB
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tethering you can see that the USB
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tethering option is grayed out
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but if I bring another phone connect it
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with a USB
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C to USBC because both phones have a
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USBC port immediately I connect the two
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phones the USB
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tetrin comes alive it's no longer grayed
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out so that means that option is now
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available for me to use and I can turn
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it on it comes on i've started sharing
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my mobile
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data with the second phone the first
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option Wi-Fi
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hotspot the second option USB
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tethering let's move over to the third
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right now we're still under hotspot and
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tetring the third option is called
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Bluetooth tering
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you didn't see that coming did you did
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you know that you could share your
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mobile data with another phone through
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Bluetooth oh yes i've done it multiple
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times there are times a USB cable is not
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available and there are times that for
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some reason the other phone does not see
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the Wi-Fi hotspot of my phone usually
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older phones whose Wi-Fi radios are not
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up to
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date how do you use Bluetooth terin
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first you pair the two devices the
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normal way you pair two devices you go
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to your settings Bluetooth scan for
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devices enable Bluetooth on the other
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phone scan for devices you see it tap
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pair enter the uh passcode you pair the
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devices
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then you come here and you tap on the
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Bluetooth tether ring toggle and it
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comes on anytime the two devices are
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connected now you can share your
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internet sometimes after toggling this
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the two devices don't connect
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automatically they've been paired but
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they don't connect automatically you go
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to your Bluetooth settings and tap on
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the name of that device and they'll
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connect and voila you're sharing your
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mobile data with the other device using
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Bluetooth so now you never ever have to
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be stranded
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again if you unable to share via Wi-Fi
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hotspot you can share via USB
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testing or you can share via
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Bluetooth three different ways to share
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your mobile data your cellular data with
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another
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device yes it works for both Android and
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iPhone give it a try when next you are
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in such a situation and let me know how
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it worked out i've used all three
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options at multiple times to get the job
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done and they work quite
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well i'll see you in my next video
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