How To Tether iPhone Data (7.0.4) for free ?

Joseph Brown of iTweakiOS who's released hacked carrier bundles to boost download speeds, has just worked out a way to enable tethering (Smartphone Hotspot) feature on the iPhone without jailbreaking. Several carriers currently charge a each month fee for the mobile Hotspot feature, and it has been possible to practice the feature unofficially using jailbreak apps like as PdaNet, MyWi.

How To Tether iPhone Data (7.0.4) for free

There are a number of apps that have enabled tethering as an easter egg, but have been quickly removed from the App Store. So it's quite a breakthrough that Joseph has managed to enable it without jailbreaking. He explains:

A lot of you might remember a story I put out ahile back talking about how CommCenter blocks edited carrier plist files? This happens because of the very thing we are doing right now, which i suspect will likely be patched quickly by iOS 7 GM release. People were enabling tethering by modifying the original carrier plist files and this stopped entirely when Apple implemented signatures into the carrier plist files and creating what we all know as CommCenter which is the process that checks these signatures. So, the challenge was finding a way to enable it without CommCenter checks and verifications.

Joseph has tried this only on T-Mobile yet, but is quite confident that it will work for all GSM carriers. He says it may not be work on the CDMA iPhone as it handles APNs differently. The hack involves editing the tethering APN in one of the system files using application like iBackupBot. You are able to head over to iTweakiOS for the step-by-step guide on how to enable tethering on your iPhone without jailbreaking.