Then, whenever we want to use our iPads or laptops when we're away from home through our iPhone hotspots, we'll still be connected to the VPN through our iPhone hotspot.' Is this expected? I was happy to see that AirVPN allows 3 connections with one account, so I though, 'Perfect! I can use one (eventually - just need to set it up on my pfSense box) on my firewall at home for our LAN, one on my iPhone when I'm away from home, and my wife can have the third on her iPhone when she's away from home.

I then did a DNS check on the IP address from my desktop computer, and it returned '***********.' (my cellular provider is Verizon). When I visited the website, I did not see the 'Connected' status at the bottom of the page, so I decided to see what IP address my iPad was given when connected to my iPhone's hotspot. My thought was that since my iPhone is now a router (since it is providing a hotspot to other wifi devices), that those connected devices would also go through the VPN, but this is not the case. I was surprised to find out that an iPhone hotspot does not provide a VPN connection to connected devices. Just signed up today with AirVPN after reading a lot of reviews over the past week or so.

Use iphone as vpn hotspot