# How to display Internet Sharing as tile on Windows Phone 8?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 26, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-display-internet-sharing-as-tile-on-windows-phone-8/723536 "2015-06-26T14:48:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-display-internet-sharing-as-tile-on-windows-phone-8/723536/1 "2015-06-26T14:48:28Z")

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One of the lovely things about my phone contract is the ability to tether. I just enable Internet Sharing on the phone and my ipad or laptop connect to the phone and thence to the internet. However, to get to Internet Sharing is a bit of a palaver, and quite beyond the elderly lady to whom I was trying to demonstrate it earlier today. It would be really nice if it could show up as a tile. There’s an app to show the wifi as a tile; is there one for Internet Sharing? I’ve not found one but maybe you have?

Is this possible in Windows Phone 10?

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-display-internet-sharing-as-tile-on-windows-phone-8/723536/2 "2015-06-28T15:35:46Z")

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Bump!

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**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-display-internet-sharing-as-tile-on-windows-phone-8/723536/3 "2015-06-28T22:05:02Z")

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> [@Quartz](#):
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> One of the lovely things about my phone contract is the ability to tether. I just enable Internet Sharing on the phone and my ipad or laptop connect to the phone and thence to the internet. However, to get to Internet Sharing is a bit of a palaver, and quite beyond the elderly lady to whom I was trying to demonstrate it earlier today. It would be really nice if it could show up as a tile. There’s an app to show the wifi as a tile; is there one for Internet Sharing? I’ve not found one but maybe you have?
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> Is this possible in Windows Phone 10?

Dont think its possible, I just tried on my lumia 930 and normally I’d just hold down on the item and a display comes up to add it to the start page. In this case, it does nothing.

You might have to wait and see if windows 10 changes anything.

Declan

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**Author:** ![Saturn\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Saturn\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saturn_Dreams)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-display-internet-sharing-as-tile-on-windows-phone-8/723536/4 "2015-06-29T01:27:28Z")

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Currently, there is no API to call ICS so you cannot make a shortcut to it. The best you can hope for is to make “Settings” a tile and access it from there.

However, if you can unlock your phone and sideload the [Supreme Shortcuts XAP](http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1343993), you can make a shortcut to access ICS with a touch of a tile.