How to turn on mobile (personal) hotspot on Galaxy S8

How to turn on mobile (personal) hotspot on Galaxy S8 – Everyone near you can enjoy internet with mobile hotspot!

 

Hello people! Today, we are going to turn on personal hotspot on your Galaxy S8! What a great phone! The Galaxy S8 came out really nice. It’s so slim, and it looks like a phone that is came from future. The personal hotspot enables people around you to use internet access through your smartphone! Think of it like a WiFi router at your home. All the devices at your home first connect to the home router to use internet. Same here. People can connect to your phone to use internet. Of course, they use your data! So, be careful if you have a small amount of data limit. Let’s learn how to do it! 😀

How to turn on personal hotspot on Galaxy S8

Before you go ahead, please note that mobile hotspot uses your data. Make sure you do not exceed the monthly data usage. Otherwise, you will have to pay for the over data usage. Let’s go ahead!

Go to “Settings“, and then “Connections“.

Go to “Mobile hotspot and tethering“, and then turn on “Mobile hotspot“. Touch “Mobile hotspot” to configure your personal hotspot.

In here, you can let your friends know your device name and your password, then they can enter the information to connect to your Samsung Galaxy S8.

How to change the mobile hotspot name (SSID or WiFi name) and the password?

You can change your device name (WiFi or SSID name) and password for your mobile hotspot. Touch the device name to change the name and touch the password to change the password. The name and password can be anything you want. The password has to be 8 characters minimum.

That is it! You can now let your friends use internet through your smartphone! Don’t forget to turn it off when you finish using it 😀 We hope this blog post was helpful for you! Don’t forget to like our Facebook, Twitter, Google +, and Youtube! Have a great Thanksgiving!