wkdewey
Level 1
(0 points)
Q: airplay icon won't go away
Today I noticed that the AirPlay icon has appeared on my menu bar. I am pretty sure it wasn't there before, because I had tried to clear my excessively cluttered menu bar and would have noticed it. I do not own an Apple TV or anything but in the menu I can see a bunch of other people's screens in my apartment complex. Despite the fact that AirPlay is off, and I have unchecked "show mirroring options" in System Preferences:Displays, and then quit System Preferences. If I force quit AirPlayXPCHelper in Activity Monitor, the icon disappears and immediately reappears (and the process is back in Activity Monitor).
Doing a search, it seems that most people have the problem of not being to see the AirPlay icon. Although I did see one person mention a security problem involving AirPlayXPCHelper. I hope that's not what's happening with me? How do I get it to go away?
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
donaldfromaberdeen
Level 1
(11 points)
Hey, I just had this issue too.
Quick simple way to get the icon away is simply go to -
System Preferences -
Open Displays-
On the bottom right un-tick "show mirroring options in the menu bar..."
That should do the trick :-)
Donald
