Short answer: yes. Hotspot is included on every eSIM Tunisie plan, whatever its length, with no separate limit: shared data counts in the same daily amount as the phone's own. It is switched on like any hotspot; when it refuses to start on an older iPhone, one APN setting usually fixes it. Whether a particular phone can share a connection also depends on the phone itself.
What sellers say about hotspot
- eSIM Tunisie: hotspot is included on every plan, with no separate allowance. Our terms add that sharing can still be limited by the phone or by the operator, which is true of any mobile line.
- Holafly: its Tunisia page, read on 1 October 2026, allows a limited amount of shared data per day, the total depending on the length of the plan.
- Other sellers: where the page says nothing, ask before you pay if sharing matters to you.
Switch it on: iPhone
- Make sure mobile data is set to the eSIM line and that the line has a working connection.
- Settings, Personal Hotspot, “Allow Others to Join”.
- Set a password, then join from the other device as you would any Wi-Fi network.
Switch it on: Android
- Samsung: Settings, Connections, Mobile Hotspot and Tethering, Mobile Hotspot.
- Pixel: Settings, Network and internet, Hotspot and tethering, Wi-Fi hotspot.
- Check that the hotspot uses the eSIM line for data.
If the hotspot will not start
On some older versions of iOS the Personal Hotspot menu is missing or greyed out with a travel eSIM. Our supplier's documentation gives the fix for our plans: in the mobile data network settings of the eSIM line, find the Personal Hotspot section and enter data.esim as the APN, leaving the username and password empty. Then restart the phone. For another seller's eSIM, ask that seller for its own value: a wrong APN blocks data.
If the phone itself has no data, the hotspot cannot work either. Fix that first: eSIM not working in Tunisia.
What sharing does to the daily amount
Our plans give 1 GB a day at full 4G speed, then 512 kbps until the next day. A laptop uses data far faster than a phone: cloud sync, software updates and video calls can go through a gigabyte in well under an hour. Once the speed drops, 512 kbps shared between two devices is slow for both.
- Pause cloud sync and automatic updates on the laptop before connecting.
- Set the laptop's connection as metered, if the system allows it.
- Keep video for the hotel Wi-Fi.
- If two people both need a connection all day, two eSIMs work better than one shared.
Sharing with a phone that has no eSIM
This is the most common reason to tether: one phone in the group is not compatible. It works for messages, maps and browsing on the second phone, within the limits above, as long as the two stay within Wi-Fi range of each other. To see which phones can take their own eSIM: Samsung and Pixel models to check.
Our plans
From €6.50 for 1 day to €84.90 for 30 days, unlimited data on Orange Tunisie. See the plans.
If the connection slows down with hotspot: slow eSIM in Tunisia: causes and fixes.