Immediately after I updated my mac to 26.0 Tahoe, my ipad mirroring stopped working. Sometimes it mirrors, but most of the time, there is a black screen on mac as soon as airplay starts. My ipad OS is 26.0. It is ipad air 5th gen and my mac is a macbook air M2. I have tried restarting and force restarting both devices, safe mode, using a different user account, removing all VPNs from both devices but none of them worked. Can someone help please?
iPad Air
Did anyone find a fix for this? I’ve noticed that whenever I open my OBS studio screen recording app the issue occurs when I uninstalled the app screen mirroring was working fine.
I tried another screen recording app the issue popped up again. This happens to both my iPhone and iPad when I mirror them on Mac.
Did anyone find a fix for this? I’ve noticed that whenever I open my OBS studio screen recording app the issue occurs when I uninstalled the app screen mirroring was working fine.
I tried another screen recording app the issue popped up again. This happens to both my iPhone and iPad when I mirror them on Mac.
Chemderama wrote:
I’m having exactly the same issues (also need to be wireless due to teaching). I find that if I unplug the hdmi to projector it will then mirror properly and then I can plug the hdmi back in. It is very unreliable though. Very disappointing update.
Thank you, I think that your observation - that disconnecting the projector helps - sheds some light on the issue.
FWIW, this seems to be something that occurred in Sequoia as well: in some cases, although connecting via HDMI, the Mac was "Airplaying" to the projector, instead of using it as a normal, directly attached, external display.
The obvious efffect was that it caused lower display quality on the projector, but in the present situation this also prevents another device from being used with (real) Airplay.
I do use projectors for teaching and I saw this happen a few times (but I do not use mirroring to an iPad).
There were several reports of this with HDMI projectors (and tv also).
Here is one thread about it from Sequoia:
"Second" monitor set to AirPlay mirror ra… - Apple Community
I’m having exactly the same issues (also need to be wireless due to teaching). I find that if I unplug the hdmi to projector it will then mirror properly and then I can plug the hdmi back in. It is very unreliable though. Very disappointing update.
Does it work if you connect the iPad to your Mac with the cable?
This is usually faster and more stable, and has the added benefit that your iPad is charging at the same time.
And since I imagine this is used when at a desk, the cable would not be a hindrance...
The same thing happens to me when I try to record my iPad screen using AiPlay for my teaching classes. It's very frustrating. Did you check if beta 26.1 fixed it? If you find the solution, please share it.
Thank you for your reply, but I usually stay 2 to 3 meters from my Mac. I use ipad in hand when teaching so it would be inconvenient.
I updated my mac and iPad to 26.0.1 but the problem is not fixed.
I also use HDMI but even without HDMI the problem persists.
ipad not mirroring on macOS 26.0 Tahoe
