You can use your Google Pixel 6a to provide an internet connection to other devices. To find out how to enable, as well as disable, this feature, you can take a look at this tutorial from Seeking Tech.
What is the hotspot feature for Google Pixel 6a?
The hotspot feature allows you to share the internet connection, which can be mobile data or Wi-Fi, of your Google Pixel 6a with another device over a local wireless network. You can connect the smartphone with the other device by using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
How to enable Google Pixel 6a hotspot
In order to enable the hotspot feature of your Pixel 6a, you need to take the following steps:
1. To start off, open the Settings App of your phone.
2. In Settings, you then need to tap Network & Internet.
3. From the Network & Internet, select Hotspot & Tethering.
4. Inside the Hotspot & Tethering menu, you can select Bluetooth Tethering if you want to share the internet connection of your Google Pixel 6a to another device over Bluetooth.
5. In the same menu, you can also select Wi-Fi Hotspot.
In the Wi-Fi Hotspot, you then need to enable the Use Wi-Fi Hotspot setting. Afterwards, you can customize the hotspot name, security protocol and password.
Furthermore, you can also choose whether or not to turn off hotspot automatically when no devices are connected as well as whether or not to enable the Extend Compatibility setting that offers better compatibility at the expense of more battery life usage.
What is the tethering feature for Google Pixel 6a?
The tethering feature allows you to connect another device to your Google Pixel 6a by using the USB-C port of the smartphone. After doing so, you can then share then internet connection, which can be mobile data or Wi-Fi, of your phone.
How to enable Google Pixel 6a tethering
In order to enable tethering for your Pixel 6a, you need to do the following:
1. Connect the other device to your smartphone.
You can do so by using a USB-C cable if you want to turn on USB tethering.
For Ethernet tethering, you need to use a USB-C to Ethernet adapter.
2. Open the Settings App and then go to Network & Internet.
3. You then need to head over to Hotspot & Tethering.
4. After getting to the Hotspot & Tethering menu, you can turn the USB Tethering setting and/or the USB Ethernet setting.
How to disable the Pixel 6a hotspot and tethering features
If you want to turn off the hotspot and/or tethering features of your Google Pixel 6a, then you need to do the following:
1. Start by opening the Settings App on your phone if you haven’t done so already.
2. In Settings, you then need to go to Network & Internet.
3. From the Network & Internet menu, you need to tap Hotspot & Tethering.
4. After getting to the Hotspot & Tethering menu, you are able to disable USB tethering, Bluetooth tethering and/or Ethernet tethering.
To disable Wi-Fi hotspot, select this setting from the Network & Internet menu. In the Wi-Fi Hotspot menu, you then need to make sure that the Use Wi-Fi Hotspot setting is disabled.