iPhone 13 Pro Max: Personal Hotspot + VPN doesn't work

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Been on a circle jerk with Verizon and Apple on this. My gf and I have iPhone 13 pro Max’s and my boss has an iPhone SE. All of them are on the latest version of iOS and they are all on Verizon. On the 13’s I turn on the personal hotspot, connect my Windows laptop to it and connect to my work via VPN client. The client connects, but I can’t ping or access anything by IP or hostname. My boss does the same thing and it works. Anyone have an ideas? I’m one of the Network Engineers at my employer so there isn’t restrictions in place that would prevent me from doing this. Thoughts?

Edit of the things I’ve tried:

Disabled IPv6

Changed cell network to LTE on phone

Inserted my 4G lte card into the iPhone

Rebooted all the things

Reset network settings on the phone

Tried Bluetooth connectivity to the hotspot

Update:

Went to Verizon because calling them is about as fun as getting your genitals chopped off. Brought my work laptop into a store and ran the following tests:

  1. Hotspot using my phone
  2. Hot spot using Verizon employees phone (iPhone 13 Pro on 5G)
  3. Using another Verizon employees phone (Samsung something on 5G)
  4. Deleting all things 5G off my account and re-activating the 4G

Only thing that worked was the Android phone. So it appears Apple is blocking something…

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Interesting. I haven’t tried VPN’ing over tether yet on my 13. I’ll have to try when I get home from vacation.

Anyway:

  1. how are you tethering? WiFi? Or usb or Bluetooth? I assume WiFi. I’d recommend trying usb, but you’ll have to install iTunes.

  2. try disabling private MAC address

  3. you can also try “maximum compatibility” under the personal hotspot section. This should only be whether 5GHz or 2.4 is used for the hotspot, but who knows.

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This just in, disable ip6

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netsh int ip reset from an admin cmd prompt and a reboot fixed it. Really damn weird.

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  1. I’ve done all except USB
  2. I believe this is for the phone itself joining a wireless network. WiFi on the phone is disabled for the phone itself once you enable hotspot and is instead used to all your other devices to connect to the iPhone.
  3. Max compatibility seems to enable Bluetooth/USB.
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Just in? That post is 2 years old

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Tried that and rebooted after disable

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Look up one thread - someone literally answered this already lol.

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