My airplay does not work when my Apple TV is offline (disconnected from WiFi). Please help.

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My airplay does not work when my Apple TV is offline (disconnected from WiFi). Please help.

I am having an issue where when I try to airplay something to my Apple TV while it is disconnected from the internet nothing will load. I can see where it attempts to load the content but endlessly buffers and an image is never loaded.

I never had an issue with this before until I installed tvOS 14.0 (18J5344d). This is a big problem for me as I just moved into a new house and have no way to watch television other than on my phone.

I've tried resetting my AppleTV and used multiple iOS devices to try to stream with and neither of them work.

Please help!

Posted on Aug 9, 2020 5:36 PM

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r1khil

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Aug 9, 2020 6:09 PM in response to Brock0003

Airplay is designed to work over Wifi. Did you try connecting your Apple TV to wifi?

On Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD, go to Settings > Network. On Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation), go to Settings > General > Network. Choose the name of a compatible Wi-Fi network to join. If asked, enter your Wi-Fi password. If you don’t know your password, get help.

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Brock0003 Author

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Aug 9, 2020 6:51 PM in response to r1khil

I do not have a network connection available. I just moved into my new house and dont have internet set up yet. What I am trying to do is use AirPlay using the peer to peer function (Bluetooth) to stream content from my iPhone to my AppleTV.

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Brock0003 Author

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Aug 10, 2020 2:57 AM in response to rkaufmann87

I don’t intend on setting up service for while. Airplay should still work while offline?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/appletoolbox.com/connect-appletv-without-wifi-how-to/amp/

Like I said, this feature worked before and I was able to airplay content from my iPhone to my Apple TV while offline before without an issue.

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rkaufmann87

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Aug 9, 2020 9:42 PM in response to Brock0003

Congratulations on your new house, my suggestion is to simply wait for your Internet service to be setup. This will make things much more simple in the longer term.

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My airplay does not work when my Apple TV is offline (disconnected from WiFi). Please help.

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