Why the Personal Hotspot from my mobile phone appears in my list of list wifi networks if it is disabled on my phone?

Why the Personal Hotspot from my mobile phone appears in my list of list wifi networks if it is disabled on my phone?

On my iMac, there is an icon for a list of available to join Wifi networks.

One of these Wifi networks is my iPhone Personal Hotspot.

However when I look at my setup on my iPhone Personal Hotspot is off.

I tried to join the Hotspot to my iMac and put.

This is part of a feature called Hotspot instantly. It allows you to connect to your personal hotspot without your password or activate the hotspot on your phone. Don't worry, this does not allow other people to access your hotspot, only devices using the same identifier Apple will see your hotspot. This feature is not using any extra battery life when you're not connected to it. You can learn more about instant Hotspot here: OS X Yosemite: connect to the Internet using instant Hotspot

Tags: Mac OS & System Software

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