TV wont connect to hotspot

[lucypevensie]

Hello, I recently set up a secondhand iPhone 8 running OS 16.2  and my TV UE32T5300AKXXU will not connect to my personal hotspot running on EE. The IP settings are all empty apart from the Mac address which I do not know is correct or not. Wireless connection finds my hotspot network but will not accept the password for that.  Do you have any advice please? Thank you. 

[AsadM]

Hi @lucypevensie, as a process of elimination, have you tried connecting your wireless Hotspot to a different device to see if it connects successfully? 

[lucypevensie]

Hi, Thanks for the contact, Yes, it connects to my laptop.  

[unitedlaptop]

Turn on Bluetooth tethering and done

[unitedlaptop]

Try that

[lucypevensie]

Thanks... Bluetooth on my phone wont connect to my Macbook air, the hotspot network on my laptop will only connect if the Personal Hotspot page on my phone is open. I don't think the tv has bluetooth

[unitedlaptop]

No it has just go into Bluetooth and turn on tethering then after go in Bluetooth list then connect

[lucypevensie]

I dont see 'tethering' on my phone or laptop  Bluetooth on my phone only shows my macbook air and as not connected, if I click it the pop up window tells me the connection is unsuccessful  ...  but I am connected on the laptop via the personal hotspot... sorry not to quite understand what Im doing ...

[lucypevensie]

Apparently, Samsung will not now recognise older iPhones using IOS 16.2 to connect via personal hotspots, and this is across all ranges of Samsung tv's! 

Guess I won't ever buy a Samsung tv again!  

[lucypevensie]

to quote Samsung support  " Upon checking, the issue has occurred because the update to iOS 16 has changed the hotspot Wi-Fi security to support WPA3-SAE with no backwards compatibility for WPA2-PSK on some iPhone models. During testing we found that older iPhone models (iPhone 7) with iOS 15 installed work OK with a Samsung TV however some newer iPhone models with iOS 15 installed no-longer support connection to a Samsung TV via a Wi-Fi hotspot. Please advise the customer to contact the vendor of their iOS device for further support."

Pah!!