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Realme: Set a Maximum Number of Hotspot Connections

When several devices join your Realme personal hotspot at the same time, mobile data disappears fast and the connection gets noticeably slower for everyone. Realme UI lets you cap the number of devices allowed to connect, so guests or family devices cannot eat into your data plan unnoticed. Without a limit, any nearby device with the password can join until you run out of data.

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Limit Personal Hotspot Connections auf Realme

Personal hotspot on Realme phones has no fixed limit on connected devices by default. Every phone, tablet or laptop that knows your password can join, which speeds up data usage and slows the shared connection for everyone.

Setting a maximum number of allowed connections keeps this under control. You can restrict the hotspot to as few as one device or allow up to ten, depending on how many people regularly need access.

Where to set the connection limit

Open Tap on SettingsTap on Connection & sharingTap on Personal hotspotTap on Connection managementTap on Maximum allowed connections. From here, Set the Maximum allowed connections to any value between one and ten.

If you disable the limit, the hotspot accepts connections until you turn it off or run out of mobile data. A low limit is useful when you share data occasionally and want to avoid unexpected guests. A higher limit makes sense for households sharing one data plan across several devices.

Once the limit is reached, additional devices cannot connect until an existing connection is dropped or the limit is raised again. This does not affect devices already connected, only new connection attempts.

Frequently asked questions

Devices already connected stay online. Any additional device trying to join gets rejected until a connected device disconnects or you raise the limit under Tap on Connection managementTap on Maximum allowed connections.