AirPlay not working in macOS Tahoe

Downgraded the airport firmware to 7.6.9 and that did the trick for me.

Can be easily done in Airport Utility, option click on the firmware version number and select the lower one.

Thanks - this helped. I had to turn off IPV6 on my Mac due to some issues with ZScaler app and changing this setting helped.

The 'solution' is fine unless you want to restart your computer, in which case you have to keep repeating this. The other solution is to turn the vpn off (if using one) connect to airplay and then turn the vpn back on. This has to be done every time also.

I've already contacted apple who say it may be the vpn, however, as so many others are getting this I'd assume it's more likely something to do with the music app.

I just stumbled on a fix for me. This has been so frustrating. I am using ethernet from my mac to my router. I people are talking about going from ipv6 disabled to local link, but I don't have anything like disabled, so I just made ethernet Make Inactive, and then re-enabled, and voila! airplay is back! It works sometimes for hours, and sometimes for days, but always just stops working. I have had to restart to fix it, because I couldn't figure out which processes to kill before finding this thread. anyway, that didn't work for me.

Feel free to send Apple a bug report.

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I've got the same problem. Since upgrading to macOS Tahoe I can't use Airplay from Mac mini (M4) or MacBook Air (M3). Works fine in iPadOS and iOS 26. Screenshot of error when trying to Airplay to Sonos, but it's the same when trying to stream to any device from a Mac.

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holy carp, thank you! hours of pointless troubleshooting. not sure how i did not search in a way to get this earlier. of course, "tahoe 26 airplay" ends up with page after page of Chevy-related search results.

The Configure IPv6 change did not fix it for me. Everything worked fine right after the upgrade. Then yesterday Music sees the Airplay devices but no sound goes to them. I have to uncheck and recheck all of them for music to come out of my HomePods. The volume control also stops working sometimes. Music has also stopped counting plays. Ugh.

it continues to work for me, flawlessly.

i thoroughly tested, alone and with Apple ts, all possible issues. basically, i confirmed nothing else in my system was the cause of this issue. other than this, my MBA was fine. for me, this worked perfectly. each of us has a different set-up, so not every fix works for everyone.

this did for me. like a miracle.

One of the things I found in System Settings/Displays is that mirroring was moved from the top right to the top left, where it says Arrange. If I click on Arrange, I get a pulldown menu where I can see the Roku stick that I want to mirror to. So, I suspect that many of the issues with AirPlay might be associated with its unannounced redesign. It's possible that AirPlay's absence at the top reflects the absorption of AirPlay functionality from an app to the OS. I have not read a lot of the changes in 26.0 but I'll look again to see if this is discussed. I just installed 26.0.1, and I'll look to see what, if anything, has been fixed. I immediately see a bug I reported some time ago in which, when AirPlay comes on, the file icons on the screen of my MacBook Pro (but not on my external monitor) scramble around randomly, has definitely not been fixed. There is also a bug which only occurs when AirPlay is on by which my mouse and trackpad both stop working, and I have to reboot. Since that is intermittent, it will take some time to find out whether it has stopped occurring.

thank you. this fixed it.

not sure why this reply with 63 upvotes (at the time of writing) is not shown as the top solution.. rather one that hasn't worked for me and has only 4 upvotes is shown as a solution..

I've been having this problem so I just updated to 26.1 in the hope that this would be fixed, and the first track I played, AirPlay worked as it should, playing the track through my Marantz hifi and showing the track details on its display... but as soon as that track finished and it went to the next one, it reverted to playing through my Mac (despite the Marantz still showing as the only speaker selected), and the Marantz display stayed on the title of the last track.

I've tried the suggested IPv6 changes for both my Wifi and Ethernet connection, but still no joy. Now I'm just left even more confused that it worked for a single track then stopped.

I'm trying to check a suspicion that AirPlay is not turned on after updating to 26.0. I don't see the AirPlay icon on the very top right. So, we may need a way to turn it on. I'm searching for that.

Thank you!