How To: Tether iPhone To Connect To The iPad

Apple announced two models of iPad’s WiFi only and WiFi + 3G. The WiFi model is available for purchase now and the WiFi + 3G is yet to get a release date. Since the day of the release of the iPad WiFi model, many have asked - Is it possible to use iPhone tethering hack to connect to the iPad?

As per an email response from Steve Jobs himself, the short answer was “No, iPhone won’t tether with iPad”. There are still rumors that AT&T might announce a tethering plan as well, but we haven't heard any news yet.

Of course the jailbreak community says otherwise, and has made a tool available that will let you tether iPhone to iPad. For those who don’t know, tethering is the use of a mobile device such as a mobile phone to supply Internet access for another device which is otherwise unconnected, using the mobile device as a modem. This can be done through Bluetooth wireless technology or via USB cable.

In order to tether iPhone to connect to the iPad, your iPhone must be jailbroken. If you have not yet jailbroken your device, you can refer to our guides here. Once you’ve jailbroken your iPhone, you are all set.

“Don’t want to spend an extra $130 on the iPad 3G? Then use MyWi to tether your iPhone’s 3G Internet Connection to your iPad. This will also save you an additional $30 per month. This video will show you how to tether your iPhone’s 3G or EDGE Data Connection to your iPad. This works on all iPhones-iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS. Data tethering using MyWi works on any WiFi enabled device. MyWi creates a WiFi network out of your cellular data connection. You can also set up a WEP key so that the network will have a password.”

You can purchase MyWi from Cydia for $9.99. However, there’s cracked version available in Cydia via beyouriphone and sinfuliphone repos.

Watch the video below to tether iPhone to your iPad -

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