![]() ![]() ![]() One of the best - and easiest - ways I’ve personally found to control usage is to use TripMode, a $7.99 app that’s designed to only let apps you’ve selected get access to the Internet (it’s also part of the Setapp subscription Mac app bundle). Apps are busily sending and receiving data, all the while chewing up your monthly data allotment. Your Mac can do a lot while it’s seemingly “just sitting there”. Reducing Data Usage From Your Mac With TripMode While Using Personal Hotspot On a Mac, the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar turns gray and is covered by a small link icon (see screenshot below): (The Mac Wi-Fi menubar icon changes when connected to Personal Hotspot (highlighted in red).) When you or another user is connected to the Personal Hotspot, the status bar at the top of the iOS device turns blue to indicate that it is acting as a Personal Hotspot and shows the number of users connected (see screenshot below): (This iPhone is being used as a Personal Hotspot) My personal choice is through Wi-Fi since I can keep my iPhone in my pocket and connect to the Hotspot from my MacBook Pro. (Turning On Personal Hotspot)Īs demonstrated in the screenshot seen above, a user can connect to the iPhone Personal Hotspot one of three ways: through Wi-Fi (easiest and quite fast), Bluetooth (easy, yet not as fast), and USB (easy, fast, very secure). It’s smart to set a Wi-Fi password for the Personal Hotspot so others can’t freeload on your connection. Tap on it, then toggle the Personal Hotspot switch to “on” (it will turn green). On your iOS device, go to Settings > Personal Hotspot. In this article I’ll show you how to set up Personal Hotspot on your iPhone or iPad, connect to it from your Mac, and make sure that you don’t use all of your monthly data allotment quickly by minimizing your Mac’s data usage. This can be very useful for Mac users on the road with a good cellular data connection and no way to connect to a free - or safe - Wi-Fi network. Your iOS device, using its cellular modem, connects to the Internet and then uses its built-in Wi-Fi to become a mobile hotspot. But you can still buy it directly from the developer for a one-time fee starting at $15, and it’s also available for subscribers to SetApp.One of the great features of iPhones and cellular-equipped iPads is the ability to use the device as a Personal Hotspot. On the Mac App Store, TripMode is a $12/year subscription. More interesting still is that, now that there’s an Apple-blessed framework, TripMode qualifies for the Mac App Store! It’s quite a change. It’s interesting to see how Apple’s changes in Big Sur have enabled the new version of TripMode to use an Apple-blessed extensions framework, rather than the kernel extension previously required. It lets you control how your Mac uses data, which is vitally important if you use slow or metered networks. TripMode has long been one of my favorite Mac utilities. For users, it’s a safer way to filter your network traffic. TripMode 3 is entirely based on these Network Extensions. This policy has changed since the newest Network Extensions framework was made available in Big Sur. Sandboxing rules made it clear that apps like TripMode, that require deep integration with the system to work, were not allowed. Before macOS Big Sur came out, Apple didn’t allow network filtering apps on the Mac App Store. TripMode was released almost 6 years ago, after all. What you may not know is why TripMode wasn’t available on the Mac App Store. ![]()
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