Hotspot Info1.19

Everything you want to know about your PERSONAL HOTSPOT but were afraid to ask. Hotspot Info is a small and useful utility that lets you see detailed information about current Personal Hotspot sharing from sharing types to connected clients and more.

Personal Hotspot lets you connect your computers and devices to the Internet using the cellular data connection on your device. You can share only a cellular data connection; you cannot share a Wi-Fi connection.

PERSONAL HOTSPOT INFO
. Detect current network sharing types. Support Wi-Fi access point, Bluetooth and USB sharing.
. Detailed informations about communication type, speed, mode.
. Analyze currently connected hotspot clients. Show IP and MAC address, PING capability, etc.
. Low-level informations about the personal hotspot (bridge), W-Fi access point, Bluetooth and USB interface, technical parameters, flags.
. Interface traffic counters: upload, download, errors, quality of service (QoS) categories.

WI-FI ACCESS POINT INFORMATIONS
. Show max. speed by Wi-Fi technologies.
. Show Wi-Fi radio frequencies.
. Show Wi-Fi radio interference informations.
. Show Wi-Fi sharing options.

USB SHARING INFORMATIONS
. Show USB sharing options.

BLUETOOTH SHARING INFORMATIONS
. Show Bluetooth protocols and standards supported by your device: Classic, High Speed (HS), Low Energy (LE) or Bluetooth Smart.
. Show Bluetooth tethering options: cellular internet connection sharing options via Bluetooth to other iOS devices.
. Show supported Bluetooth power class, max. ranges.
. Show device supported Bluetooth frequencies and channels with radio interference informations.

INTERNET INFO
. Show default gateways, IP addresses, networks.
. Show DNS servers, search domain names, local MAC addresses, host name resolve.
. Depth external address analysis: ISP name, autonomous system name, whois, ping, regional internet registry info.
. Full offline MAC vendor database.

REACH UI FEATURES
. Info menu with feedback and privacy settings
. Use the camera icon (upper-right corner) to create and print/send/share a screenshot from the entire page.
. Pull down with your finger to refresh the informations.
. Long press on a cell to copy/print/send/open as/share the cell value.
. Shake your device to refresh the informations.

Version History BUG FIXES AND STABILITY IMPROVEMENTS 1.19 01/11/2025 DEVICE SUPPORT
• iPhone 13 (2021) family. 1.18 09/30/2021 DEVICE SUPPORT
• iPhone SE (2020) support. 1.17 05/26/2020 DEVICE SUPPORT
• iPhone 8 and 8 Plus support. 1.16 10/27/2017 DEVICE SUPPORT
• iPad 5th. gen (2017) support.
• Compare Wi-Fi chipsets.

DEVICE INFO
• Show device's release year.

USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS
• Setting for turning off automatic device sleep. 1.15 06/13/2017 USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS
• Turn on/off suggested apps.

MAC DATABASE UPDATE
• 22947 large address blocks. 1.14 02/08/2017 USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS
• Dynamic font: using user's preferred font size.
• System font: using system font instead of custom font.
• Show current preferred font size.

ENHANCED INFO MENU
• Guided help for send e-mail.
• Useful utility and science apps suggestions. 1.13 11/28/2016 3D TOUCH SUPPORT
• Home Screen Quick Actions.
• Easy access to personal hotspot interface, default gateways, DNS servers and external address.

NETWORK SEARCH SETTINGS
• Turn on/off PING and WHOIS query of network nodes.

OPTIONAL NETWORK DISCOVER FEATURES
• Explain Wi-Fi, cellular, VPN and hotspot network properties of a default gateway or DNS server.
• Find DLNA and Bonjour services of a default gateway or DNS server.
• Find printers, TVs, speakers, media libraries and remote controllers on the local Wi-Fi network.
• Search for MAC vendors or MAC addresses. 1.12 10/20/2016 DEVICE SUPPORT
• iPhone 7 and 7 Plus support.

DETECT WI-FI CHIP
• Detect on-board Wi-Fi chip and chipset.

EXPLAIN WI-FI HOTSPOT FREQUENCIES
• Channel width.
• Overlapping channels.
• Country availability.

EXPLAIN WI-FI HOTSPOT DATA RATES
• Support 802.11g/n standards.
• Describe guard interval, modulation schemes (DSSS, OFDM) and types (BPSK, QPSK, QAM).
• List standard raw data rates (Mbit/s) and Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) indices.
• Compare different data rates for various channel widths (20 / 40 MHz)

PLATFORM SUPPORT
• iOS 10.x support.
• Drop iOS 6.x support.
• Drop iOS 7.x support. 1.11 09/23/2016 MAC DATABASE UPDATE
• 22290 large address blocks. 1.10 08/19/2016 HOTSPOT FEATURES
• Detect Instant Hotspot support.

DEVICE SUPPORT
• iPhone SE.
• iPad Pro (12.9" and 9.7").

ENGINE IMPROVEMENTS
• Stabilization and performance. 1.9 04/30/2016 DEVICE INFO
• Detect device type and model.
• Detect processor type.
• Detect memory size.
• Detect storage size.
• Detect firmware name, version.
• Detect last reboot time.

DEVICE SUPPORT
• iPad Mini 4 support
• iPad Pro support
• iPod Touch 6G support 1.8 12/07/2015 ENGINE IMPROVEMENTS
• iOS 9 support.
• iPhone 6s support.
• iPhone 6s Plus support. 1.7 09/30/2015 USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS
• Better iPhone 6 user experience.
• Better iPhone 6 Plus user experience. 1.6 09/03/2015 USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS
• Video guides in Info menu. 1.5 07/17/2015 APPLICATION SPEED UP
• Faster network analysis.

USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS
• Info menu extensions. 1.4 06/09/2015 APPLICATION SPEED UP
• Faster application launch.
• Smaller binary size. 1.3 05/05/2015 NEW NAME
• Application renamed to Hotspot Info.

ENGINE IMPROVEMENTS
• Stabilization and performance. 1.2 04/18/2015 WI-FI ACCESS POINT INFORMATIONS
• Show max. speed by Wi-Fi technologies.
• Show Wi-Fi radio frequencies.
• Show Wi-Fi radio interference informations.
• Show Wi-Fi sharing options.

USB SHARING INFORMATIONS
• Show USB sharing options.

BLUETOOTH SHARING INFORMATIONS
• Show Bluetooth protocols and standards supported by your device: Classic, High Speed (HS), Low Energy (LE) or Bluetooth Smart.
• Show Bluetooth tethering options: cellular internet connection sharing options via Bluetooth to other iOS devices.
• Show supported Bluetooth power class, max. ranges.
• Show device supported Bluetooth frequencies and channels with radio interference informations.

REACH UI FEATURES
• Use the camera icon (upper-right corner) to create and print/send/share a screenshot from the entire page.
• Pull down with your finger to refresh the informations.
• Long press on a cell to copy/print/send/open as/share the cell value.
• Shake your device to refresh the informations.

USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS
• Info menu with feedback and privacy settings (iOS 8+)
• Some new and recolored images.
• New margins.
• Better iPhone 6 Plus icons.
• More beautiful iOS 6 look and feel.
• Label changes.
• UI tweaks.

ENGINE IMPROVEMENTS
• Better VPN connection handling.
• Faster databases.
• Custom URL scheme: hotspotspy. 1.1 03/24/2015 1.0 12/06/2014