Can anyone explain in simple english exactly how to set up and use my phone as a data hotspot source for the car? 
I have occasionally got it to work by fiddling with various iPhone and car settings, but invariably next time I start the engine to use the car the web connection symbol is red again.

whatever I am doing to occasionally get a hotspot connection is not remembered by either the car or iPhone automatically and used again next time. 
I only ever got this to work reliably with a SIM card in the car, which is a MY20 vehicle. I had a sim card which theoretically had free new data every month after paying £10 for it but it only ever renewed by phoning and chasing 3 each month and I have given up with it. Paying a monthly fee for another data card doesn’t make sense if my phone can act as a hotspot correctly.

My Karoq is not WiFi enabled but when I have used my Iphone  as a hotspot for other computers this is the sequence (as used on my iPhone 8). 

 

<Settings>

<Personal Hotspot>

<Allow Others to Join>.  Make active

 

Once I make it active I then get the second machine to search for the iPhone. I then enter the phones Wi-Fi password on the second machine to connect. I have only needed to do this once for my iPad, afterwards it connects automatically.

 

Logic says that after you have enabled the hotspot on the phone you need to get the car to search for the phone and take it from there.

 

Remember you are getting the car to use the phones hotspot not getting the phone to use the SIM enabled cars hotspot.

 

Good luck. 

 

tom

 

 

Thanks

 

Yes I was trying again last night and found an obscure box in menu which opened a connect option. Three choices no, ask and always. It was on ask and not connected automatically, I changed this to always and it connected. Hopefully will connect straight away next trip.

 

Anyway I suspect I will go back to using Google maps on phone for journeys where there may be traffic issues when free Skoda connect month expires as I don’t seem to use much else so far…

And again today it fails to auto connect to phones hot spot- I might as well give up.