Today I tried to tether a Windows laptop (Win7) to my 6+ running iOS 8.1.2 (stock). I noticed the small orange/yellow shape over the WiFi status icon in the system tray, and upon further investigation, only saw one network.
Now I was expecting to see one network at minimum - mine that was based upon the iPhone 6+'s name. But the name I expected wasn't there, and instead the generic "iPhone" without quotes.
I do not remember renaming my phone at all. I could have of course done this and completely forgotten, but am certain that is not the case. Now its been a few weeks since I used tethering, but prior to the holidays, connecting the same Windows laptop to the same iPhone 6+ (different name) worked perfectly fine.
I had a naming convention of "name6+" without quotes. Unless the "+" character is unsupported, and why would it all of a sudden be since its worked perfectly fine that way for months; it feels like a bug just popped up.
The thread below references a similar situation with OS X 10.10. I've seen this happen with older OS X versions.
Is there an iOS 8.1.x bug (didn't get any obvious clues when searching around), or am I imagining things?
http://forums.imore.com/os-x-yosemite-10-10/304804-my-computer-name-changing-10-10-a.html
Now I was expecting to see one network at minimum - mine that was based upon the iPhone 6+'s name. But the name I expected wasn't there, and instead the generic "iPhone" without quotes.
I do not remember renaming my phone at all. I could have of course done this and completely forgotten, but am certain that is not the case. Now its been a few weeks since I used tethering, but prior to the holidays, connecting the same Windows laptop to the same iPhone 6+ (different name) worked perfectly fine.
I had a naming convention of "name6+" without quotes. Unless the "+" character is unsupported, and why would it all of a sudden be since its worked perfectly fine that way for months; it feels like a bug just popped up.
The thread below references a similar situation with OS X 10.10. I've seen this happen with older OS X versions.
Is there an iOS 8.1.x bug (didn't get any obvious clues when searching around), or am I imagining things?
http://forums.imore.com/os-x-yosemite-10-10/304804-my-computer-name-changing-10-10-a.html
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