Airplay does not work with my iphone and Apple TV

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Airplay does not work with my iphone and Apple TV

I have I-phone IOS 4.2, and the latest apple TV and apple TV software. But I can not play from my phone to the TV. I do not see airplay icons on my phone nor does my I-phone show as a connected device on the Apple TV. How do I enable it? I have a PC and a Mac on the network which both are accessible from the Apple TV. I called Apple support and was told Airplay only supports music, not pictures or video despite the Apple descriptions which indicate it supports all digital media. Is this true?

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Posted on Nov 22, 2010 4:34 PM

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Answer 1

Mlvc_fan

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Nov 22, 2010 5:03 PM in response to jimf2338

Go to General settings on the Apple TV and update the software then try again. I'm updating now to see if that works.

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mdubbie

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Nov 22, 2010 7:30 PM in response to Mlvc_fan

I updated the Apple TV software and Airplay now works between iPhone 4 and Apple TV.

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jimf2338 Author

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Nov 22, 2010 7:40 PM in response to Mlvc_fan

I did update the apple tv software and loaded IOS 4.2, yet nothing works between the phone and the Apple TV. In all other respects the apple tv works,

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goodpod

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Nov 22, 2010 7:50 PM in response to jimf2338

Same thing is happening to me. I just updated both new Apple TV's and my iphone 4 OS but still no airplay tab....

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jimf2338 Author

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Nov 22, 2010 8:45 PM in response to jimf2338

Well I suddenly got it working for still photos from the Iphone photos app.It really is cool, hope it still works tomorrow. I hope apple can get this working for video clips in the near future. It does not work now. Another nice addition would be if you could stream the live picture from the camera to the apple tv.

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Answer 6

Nov 23, 2010 10:25 AM in response to jimf2338

Does this feature work with the older Apple TVs or just the new version?

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Nov 23, 2010 2:46 PM in response to Douglas Parks

Only the new ATV. I have both and AirPlay sees the new ATV, but not the older ones.

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Mini Man

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Nov 27, 2010 3:00 PM in response to jimf2338

Did you get anywhere with this as far as I am concerned my iPhone 4 and my brand new Apple TV have no ability to contact each other. In my settings it sows my iPhone as running 4.2.1, which is the latest and newest. But my phone has no icons to share photos, videos or music with my Apple Tv or my Airport Express.

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Kelvinb

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Nov 30, 2010 3:48 AM in response to jimf2338

I am using the latest version of iOS and my Apple TV is also running the latest version. When I look at photo, music or video on my iPhone, there is no icon to change to location to AppleTV.

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Answer 10

Dec 2, 2010 10:31 PM in response to Kelvinb

Kelvinb i am getting the same issue as you are. Both my Apple Tv (2nd Gen) and iPod touch (4th Gen) are updated to the latest software, and both of these devices are on the same WiFi network. The Airplay button has never shown up on my ipod. Thought it was supposed to appear when it finds a device on the same network. This was the soul reason i purchased an Apple TV (2nd Gen) Very frustrated. I even tried re-syncing and restoring my ipod. Nothing. Hope we can get this solved.

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khock19

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Dec 3, 2010 4:58 PM in response to Crazy Cramer

I just purchased an ATV2 and my iPhone will only transmit pictures from my camera roll to it. There's no icon for transmitting music from the iPod app. This is annoying.

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khock19

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Dec 3, 2010 5:16 PM in response to khock19

EDIT: I power cycled my iPhone and the icon appeared. Strange

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Answer 13

Dec 4, 2010 5:55 AM in response to jimf2338

As the original poster, I too had issues with my iPhone 4 (4.2.1) and Apple TV 2 playing nice. The Airplay icon was visible for music, and worked perfectly. However, when watching a video, purchased through iTunes, only the "audio" option would be selectable for Airplay. After updating the Apple TV software, everything works perfectly well. When watching a video on my iPhone and selecting the Airplay icon, one of the options is to play "video" through the Apple TV, not simply audio.

It would have been nice to know that my Apple TV needed an update when I updated my iPhone 4 to 4.2.1.

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burdell1

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Dec 15, 2010 7:10 AM in response to Greg Fellmer

for my iPhone, everything shows up with the Airplay icon except for when i'm listening to music on the iPhone, then it doesn't appear at all.... strange...

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Answer 15

Jan 4, 2011 9:28 AM in response to jimf2338

Same problem as all of the above...I just TURNED IT OFF AND TURNED IT ON and there it was the beautiful airplay icon

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