I have Installed catalina and Airplay display occasionally in the top of display and when clicked on displays airplay Off then Airplay looking for TV. I dont use Airplay and would like to prevent it from looking a non existent TV.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
The Apple TV icon and also the WiFi icon (try it also!) in the menu bar when clicked on show briefly "looking for ..." or "scanning for ..." That is because the MacOS assumes that if someone clicks on the icon it should check for available devices to connect to, but it is very brief and uses essentially no system resources. This behavior is built in to the MacOS and there is no option to turn it off. But it has essentially zero effect and is not something to be concerned about. If even this infinitesimal use of computer resources bothers you, simply don't click on those icons, then the "looking for ..." or "scanning for ..." will never happen.
That is the purpose of this post. I could not get the airplay to turn off for the same configuration on a fresh install. You mentioned multiple wasy of installing Mac OS. I owuld like to know what thoses ways are as I know of only one way and that is through the recovery boot and selecting erase drive then install.
macfrombrampton wrote:
The issue is the deviation in the operation of Catalina when it was reinstalled. I never use airplay.
Can you provide the instruction on installing Catalina from a external boot drive?
Apple has instructions: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
The information you provided shows that all versions of installation must go to Apple to Download the O.S. so they are all essentialy the same with the difference being installing to an external device or selecting to erase the disk.
My concern is still why airplay activated on a clean O.S. install on the top menu and I could not turn it off and why after an another O.S. install it no longer appeared.
Common causes for the menu icon not showing:
If there is no AppleTV or AirPlay capable device on your network or properly configured on your network, or your OS is not installed properly (or maybe if you have made custom changes to the OS like the time you boasted about removing Safari as you once indicated you had done -- was that you?), it might not show up.
That does not seem reasonably since it is scanning "looking for TV" this means its using system resources for something I do not use.
Then ones best bet is to switch to an OS other than Apple
I am simply stating if it is not used it should use 0 CPU time. In the preference it says it is off and off means not active.
How is installing from an external Boot drive accomplished? Is it possible to get a fresh copy of Catalina on a external drive?
The issue is the deviation in the operation of Catalina when it was reinstalled. I never use airplay.
Can you provide the instruction on installing Catalina from a external boot drive?
I fully understand that the check mark should be unchecked to remove the icon. But in my current running version no icon is displayed in the top menu even though "show mirroring options in the menu bar when available" is checked. My previous version did show the icon.
The last result is interesting "Mangled or corrupt MacOS install or AirPlay TVOS install" I performed a install and the operating system notified me of no errors. I do not use airplay and only noticed it when it appeared on the top menu screen.
So my question is how can the operating system be confirmed?
Turning airplay off
