AirPrint not working after iOS 17 Update

100% UPDATE THE FIRMWARE ON THE PRINTER! Even the Canon reps did not know this, and sent me on a rigmarole for literally 5 hours, and they still had a terrible fix which was to download the canon print app, then you have to go save your item as a file (extra steps if it's an email or a photo) Thanks to YOUR COMMENT it works!

This was for my elderly parents who suddenly couldn't print after the iPad update and they have been suffering getting it to work. then I had to teach them how to use this canon print app work around - they were so confused - and I had to write down the instructions for them step by step, and still they had a hard time and were SO UPSET that it has become far more complicated.

I said don't worry mom, I'm sure they will have a fix soon because lots of people will complain, in fact, I will see how many complaints there are. Googled it, and found your comment - and your fix worked!

My mom is literally singing my praises for the last 15 minutes calling me a hero - but I did nothing. Thank God I found your comment! I so appreciate it, my parents are SO RELIEVED they can just go back to the original way and don't have to do this new complicated way!

I don't know if that is true since I checked for new firmware before I powered it down. There wasn't any for either of my different model Epson printers. Of course, if the printer knew that I was about to lobotomize it then, perhaps, in desperation, it called home to the mother ship!

Thanks Lawrence, it makes sense to have all the various pieces of information in one place. It will take you a while but it will make things easier for people. Read your resume and it all makes good sense. As a detailed point, Bonjour (AirPrint) works over Ethernet as well as WiFi.

Bought a new iPhone yesterday, I can print to my 12 year old laser with it. 😁

Take care Lawrence catch up again sometime.

Thanks Lawrence, it makes sense to have all the various pieces of information in one place. It will take you a while but it will make things easier for people.

Read your resume and it all makes good sense. As a detailed point, Bonjour (AirPrint) works over Ethernet as well as WiFi.

Bought a new iPhone yesterday, I can print to my 12 year old laser with original firmware on it. 😁

Take care Lawrence catch up again sometime.

Techguyuk wrote:

Thanks Lawrence, it makes sense to have all the various pieces of information in one place. It will take you a while but it will make things easier for people.

Read your resume and it all makes good sense. As a detailed point, Bonjour (AirPrint) works over Ethernet as well as WiFi.

Good point, I’ll mention it as wired connection, as most users don’t know what ethernet is.

Bought a new iPhone yesterday, I can print to my 12 year old laser with original firmware on it. 😁

Take care Lawrence catch up again sometime.

Congratulations on your new iPhone. I suspect that the Canon firmware problem is that it used an unsupported API or misused a supported API that went away with the latest BonJour update.

Actually the printer is still running AirPrint (Bonjour) 1.2.1 (2003 - 2015) it never updated, there was a risk in doing an update that the printer would never work again (Kyocera). Something to do with ROM specification on that model.

the fuc….. apple developers make this ios worse and broke airprint function, apple support not helped me and routed to samsung support. How can somone can broke something and pointing another to fix it.

Not true at ALL. I print to Lexmark, HP, Canon, and Brother printers at various IT businesses I work for. Airprint will NOT print photos to any printers anymore since IOS 17 came out, it just prints blank pages. This is NOT a printer firmware issue, it is purely an IOS issue. I updated to the new IOS 17.1.2 this morning, and it still isn't fixed.

It has always printed PDFs, etc. just fine, it has just lost the ability to print any pictures from the phone since IOS 17 came out.

Come on APPLE, fix this already!!

Ok I got my iPhone printing to the Epson WF-2650. I reset the AirPrint using the Epson iPrint app from the App Store. I selected the printer (it seems use Bluetooth to connect). Then selected the printer on the top line, and went to advanced settings. Scroll down and select AirPrint setup. Click OK, then click OK again. Magic, The AirPrint is setup! And it prints!

Thank you for this suggestion. After spending hours this morning trying to get my Canon MF232w printer to work with my i-phone this suggestion worked! Darn software updates that always mess with my brain.

I was having the same issue with my iPhone Xs and iPhone 14 after the iOS 17 update, but not my laptop. I have a Canon MF230 printer, and a firmware update was needed. I did the update directly from the printer, and it took about 5 minutes. Now everything is working properly on both iPhones.

Try turning off the “Limit IP Address Tracking” Settings->WiFi-> the i symbol next to your WiFi and turn off this feature. This correction allowed my AirPrint to work normally. I also believe this feature is automatically enabled with each WiFi you connect to with the new update. Seems to all add up.

I too have problems printing to my canon network printer on home network from my iphone 11 and my wife’s too after doing of 17.1.2 update. Airbook prints great on network - so it has to be os update bug. Tried powering everything down and back up - this update just fubar it would be nice to be able to revert to os 16 but that would make too much sense hey? When is NEXT OS update to fix this foing to happen?

OllienanT wrote:

I too have problems printing to my canon network printer on home network from my iphone 11 and my wife’s too after doing of 17.1.2 update. Airbook prints great on network - so it has to be os update bug. Tried powering everything down and back up - this update just fubar it would be nice to be able to revert to os 16 but that would make too much sense hey? When is NEXT OS update to fix this foing to happen?

As has already been posted several times, you need to update your Canon printer firmware. You can do that from the printer settings on the printer.

After recent updates my phone doesn’t respond to print, save files and more while my iPad can. We’ve rebooted phone, WiFi and printer several times. When I click on a photo that I want to save in files or print, I click on print and nothing happens.