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Airplay doesn’t work with youtube

Ive tested this a few ways and what I have found is that all the common things to check like same network blah blah Have nothing do do with the issue. Ive done all the normal troubleshooting. Including factory resetting every device.


All airplay to anything works as expected so you can rule out all the normal trouble shooting. It has nothing do do with DNS. It has everything to do with YouTube blocking video with airplay.

airplay with a home video recording works.

airplay with a streaming service like vudu or tmz works.

airplay from any browser on iPad with YouTube as the streaming service does not work.


This only affects iPad. I have multiple iPads and they all do the same. Then iPads are all iPad Pro 10.5”

It works perfect on iPhone 6smax iPhone XS Max and iPhone 11 Pro Max and macOS


If I install the YouTube app on the iPad then I can airplay to the Apple TV.



Why do I have to install YouTube app to airplay to Apple TV?

iPad Pro, iOS 13

Posted on Feb 23, 2020 8:01 AM

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Posted on Feb 25, 2020 2:34 PM

  • Confirmed: The basic AirPlay button in the YouTube video controller in Safari doesn’t seem to work (audio AirPlay but no video AirPlay when I tried).
  • Screen Mirroring does work, but from a 4:3 iPad that isn’t ideal.
  • The YouTube app on iPad has its own casting feature for AirPlay, or it can automatically switch from Screen Mirroring to basic AirPlay, and does work.

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Feb 25, 2020 2:34 PM in response to zorkmaracmur181

  • Confirmed: The basic AirPlay button in the YouTube video controller in Safari doesn’t seem to work (audio AirPlay but no video AirPlay when I tried).
  • Screen Mirroring does work, but from a 4:3 iPad that isn’t ideal.
  • The YouTube app on iPad has its own casting feature for AirPlay, or it can automatically switch from Screen Mirroring to basic AirPlay, and does work.

Airplay doesn’t work with youtube

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