AirPlay to Apple TV shows a small red circle slash

One possibility is that the website has blocked airplay. If you know how to inspect the webpage and you see the following in the video player tag it means the web developers have explicitly blocked airplay:

x-webkit-airplay="deny"

Actually, it really worked. On the iPhone I chose the 1080hd option instead of the auto which was set in the player and it did stream the content via AirPlay. WayneLowV needs to be upvoted to the most helpful answer. Thank you!

I might have just been lucky...but...

I had the video steaming on my phone, then turned on screen sharing and got the same black screen and red circle slash.

I stopped the video on my phone and then reloaded the website by just clicking the circular arrow in the white field at the bottom of the screen.

When it reloaded it the screen sharing, which was still on, started to work. Then on my phone I selected full screen mode icon in the video stream and hey presto! It worked.

So it makes me wonder if the order is important. Screen sharing 1st, launch stream 2nd, full screen 3rd.

I called and this helped us! Make sure your Apple ID is the same on your device you’re mirroring from and the Apple TV. Look under General settings on Apple TV for which one is set up there. We got rid of the red circle. Finally.

Using iOS 17 on Apple tv. After logging in successfully to a to a particular streaming service( BBC iPlayer) I was getting the red circle trying to access programs.

On the Apple TV I went to System/Restart and I was the able to stream shows again.

I don't know whether it was a fluke or not.

A small update, it seems like airplay is working if I turn off VPN on my phone (ExpressVPN).

Does not help me a lot since I need the VPN running to airplay said content.

Turns out, some websites don’t let their content be streamed by AirPlay anymore. Had to switch to another website to watch vids on the TV.

Change resolution for video in browser to anything besides auto. Worked for me.

I suspect this is DRM related. I've only seen that tiny red null sign when trying to stream from a www site that streams a few Cable News stations, surrounded by adverts, that people usually pay subscription fees to view.

My Apple TV 4K refuses to play these 'pirate streams' via AirPlay (initiated from MacOS or iPadOS), whereas the native AirPlay 2 receiver on my LG TV cheerfully played it.

Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities, Joe Livingston,

If we understand your post correctly, you're trying use AirPlay to stream video to your Apple TV and getting a red no symbol. We’d like to help.

We see you were viewing "If screen mirroring or streaming isn't working on your AirPlay-compatible device - Apple Support" which was a great place to start.

1. Which device and software version are you trying to stream from?
2. Does the video play on that device when you're not using AirPlay? If the video won't play on the device at all, use the steps for your device: If Safari isn't loading websites or quits on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support or If Safari on Mac doesn't open a webpage or isn’t working as expected - Apple Support
3. Are you able to use AirPlay to play any videos from your Apple TV?

Let us know what you find.

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities.

Why did that work? The site was set to auto, but all of the available options were standards, 240p, 480p, 720p, 1080p. I selected 1080p, and all of a sudden it started working. Why would any of those not be supported on a AppleTV device?

you need to try switching resolutions on your source device, not the TV. That's what did it for me. Changed the resolution on YouTube on my phone, and it worked!

Just change your Resolution in the settings/video audio

yw

Setting to 1080 dpi solved the problem.

Just change your Resolution in the settings/video audio output