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Welcome! Today I'll show you how you can enable and set up your portable hotspot on the Android 13
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Now for this specific process I'm going to be using Google Pixel 6 Pro but the process is
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relatively the same between all the other brands. So to get started you will need to pull down your
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notifications. Now on the Pixel it is just accessible on either side but some manufacturers
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decided to split it into two sections which is the stupidest thing ever. So you want to
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make sure you're then pulling it from the right side instead because... let me quickly just whip
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out my phone which has this stupidity. So as you can see I have a Huawei and I access the
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notifications from the right side. I access the... actually notifications are on the left side. I
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access the toggles on the right side. There's no way to change it and that's kind of how it works
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here. So like I said some phones will have it a little bit differently so make sure to accommodate
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for that. Anyway once you have your toggles visible you can extend them by just pulling
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down once again and locate the hotspot toggle. So there is a couple pages so if you can't see it on
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first one just look on the second one. For some reason here on the Pixel it is disabled by default
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As you can see it it's turned off. To add a toggle if it's not accessible you can tap on this pencil
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Every phone will have it just in a different location. Sometimes it's at the bottom sometimes
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at the top. And from here just find a toggle you want, hold it and then drag it over to the top
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drop it and when you go back you can now access it. Anyway once you see it in here
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first time around you will want to hold it and this will work on every phone. Where you hold it
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it will take you to the settings and you want to most likely start off by selecting the hotspot
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password. Usually or not usually but all the time it is randomly generated gibberish of letters and
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the numbers. So what I recommend doing is just removing this one. As you can see it's not
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necessarily the easiest thing to write down. Though at least Google here decided to be a
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little bit more graceful and use only lowercase letters. Which is not the case for most of the
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phones where they just give you also capital ones, lower ones and numbers. Which is just absolute
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mess. But still I recommend in any case removing this one and setting up your own password that
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you will easily remember. I'm gonna just set up a really simple one just with numbers and it does
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need to have eight characters in length. If it doesn't you won't be able to save it as you can
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see. And that's really the only thing that I would recommend changing. You could also change things
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like the hotspot name if you want to. By default it's always going to be the device's name. So
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here it's pixel and just a model number. And additional settings which don't always appear on
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all the different devices is the turn off hotspot automatically. It's a really nice feature to have
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enabled just because hotspot consumes more battery. And on certain phones it will also use the wi-fi
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antennas to broadcast. So when you enable hotspot you don't have wi-fi and you're strictly running
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off of mobile network. So this will ensure that once you're done using it it will start a countdown
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when it's inactive and five or ten minutes later it automatically turns it off. If you have this
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setting I do recommend turning it on or keeping it on. If you don't then you will need to remember
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to turn off your hotspot. Anyway once you're done setting it up you can close this and then simply
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find the toggle, tap on it. As you can see it's turning on and now it's on. And you can now connect
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to your wi-fi or hotspot more precisely. And like I mentioned before if your phone didn't have that
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automatic turn off you will need to remember to turn it off. So again find your toggle
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tap on it again and this will turn it off. So with that being said if you found this very helpful
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