Does it cost money to turn my iPhone into a hotspot?

It may be a dumb question but… Yeah.

You have to have the largest data plan.

No, not really. The hotspot setting uses your data settings, if you don't have a data plan on your iPhone (unlimited internet for about 2 weeks let's say) but if you don't have a data plan you must activate one and the hotspot will use the internet from that data plan.

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