Why did my Apple TV Home Sharing stop working?

I have the 4th gen A1625 apple tv and a 3rd gen 4k apple tv. I have itunes on a Windows 11 PC, and while I had occasional blips in Homesharing from itunes in the past, it's never just outright stopped working before and refused to function no matter what I've tried


So far I have

- Restarted both my laptop and the apple tv

- Logged out and logged back into all devices

- Turned homesharing on and off again on my itunes and on my appletv

- ensured itunes and appletv software are both up to date

- installed apple TV app with media library loaded into that instead per the apple site directions


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- uninstalled and reinstalled itunes

- switched wifi/reset router

- factory reset appletv and repeated all of the above


I'm at a loss of where to go from here, and pretty much the only thing I use my apple tv for is to be able to stream from my itunes library to my TV, so it's a bit out of the count until I can figure out how to fix it. Any advice would be appreciated!


Apple TV HD, tvOS 18

Posted on May 4, 2025 9:34 AM

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Posted on May 5, 2025 3:09 AM

As far as I know, the Apple TV app for Windows doesn’t support Home Sharing at this time, so you will have to uninstall that, and use iTunes for Windows instead. These two apps are not both functional at the same time: the Apple TV app blocks functionality of the iTunes application, even if only one is running.


Use Home Sharing to share media from a computer to other devices - Apple Support

iTunes user guide for PC - Apple Support

Stream content to Apple TV with Home Sharing in iTunes on PC - Apple Support

Apple TV app user guide for Windows - Apple Support

↳ [nothing in the user guide on Home Sharing]


Could it be that your issue started after installing (testing?) the Apple TV app for Windows?

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May 5, 2025 3:09 AM in response to dilatory

As far as I know, the Apple TV app for Windows doesn’t support Home Sharing at this time, so you will have to uninstall that, and use iTunes for Windows instead. These two apps are not both functional at the same time: the Apple TV app blocks functionality of the iTunes application, even if only one is running.


Use Home Sharing to share media from a computer to other devices - Apple Support

iTunes user guide for PC - Apple Support

Stream content to Apple TV with Home Sharing in iTunes on PC - Apple Support

Apple TV app user guide for Windows - Apple Support

↳ [nothing in the user guide on Home Sharing]


Could it be that your issue started after installing (testing?) the Apple TV app for Windows?

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