Clarification on Personal Hotspot traffic

Hi there,

We make an enterprise VPN product and are exploring some ideas. One that came up involves Personal Hotspot clients:

Is it possible to establish a VPN connection using our iOS product (where we support creating VPN tunnels with various VPN protocols via network extensions) and share that VPN connection to a Mac that is connected via Personal Hotspot?

It doesn't work out of the box, but before we dive in too much deeper, we wanted to hear if there is a high-level answer of how that client traffic is handled.

Thanks, Adrian

Answered by DTS Engineer in 706967022

I recommend that you avoid trying to create features based on Personal Hotspot. It’s a user-level feature, not a developer API.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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Accepted Answer

I recommend that you avoid trying to create features based on Personal Hotspot. It’s a user-level feature, not a developer API.

Share and Enjoy

Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

Clarification on Personal Hotspot traffic
 
 
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