If you own a Samsung mobile phone that’s a candidate for the update, chances are you already own One UI 6. This is the South Korean company’s customization layer on top of Android 14 and features a ton of changes and improvements for the brand’s mobile phones. The first to be updated were the Galaxy S23, but little by little it is reaching mobile phones of other ranges, such as the modest Galaxy A14.
One UI 6 brings changes to the interface, camera and several sections of the system, but where it also stands out is in some accessibility and simplicity options for users. And one of these options is a very, very simple way to share the Internet from your mobile. We tell you how to create a unique key when sharing internet from your Galaxy with One UI 6.
A few clicks and we have a simple and secure connection in One UI 6
Creating a local network using your mobile phone as if it were a router is common and also very useful. It has different names such as “Share Connection”, “Wi-Fi Zone” or “Shared Connection” and basically it consists of instructing the mobile phone to generate a connection with another device to share its connection of data.
Do you need to use your laptop in a public place and don’t want to connect to WiFi? You can do it like this. Want to connect your Nintendo Switch to the Internet on the bus? You can use your mobile. Are you going away for the weekend and want to take a Chromecast with you? You can do it too.
Yes, When using your mobile to share the Internet, you have two security options. The first is… not having a password. This is the least ideal because anyone could connect to your network and start “pulling” your data rate. It’s best to create a password, a good password, but if you have to share the Internet from time to time, it can be tedious.
One UI 6 has an option that allows you to generate a short one-time password. This password is renewed each time the shared connection is reactivated and its creation is very, very simple:
- In “Settings”, go to “Connections”.
- You have to scroll to the ‘Connection sharing and modem’ tab.
- Inside, you need to select the “Tethering” switch.
- Once finished, click on “Shared Connection” and go to the bottom, where it says “One-time password”.
- We activate it, we enter and that’s it, we will see a password that will be renewed every time we activate and deactivate the option.
This is useful for us both to create different passwords each time and to share the Internet with another device or with another person. Actually, there is an option to share connection using a QR code.
As you can see, it is one more option that is not superfluous, which can add a layer of security in some cases by generating random passwords and, above all, it allows us not to have to think with a key to keep it secure over time.
By | Sammobile
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