Airplay Icon Disappears on iPhone

Hi

I think I'm probably restating what everybody is saying, but I thought I'll add my 2 cents' worth and hope that somebody from Apple is "listening". I've struggled with this problem for a couple of months now.

My setup is:

- ATV2 connected via ethernet

- iTunes on Windows 7 connected via ethernet

- iPhone connected via wireless

I first started with both my iPhone and ATV2 connected via wireless, but since it seems to be a wireless issue, I decided to eliminate one of the elements to find the problem, so I connected the ATV2 to the ethernet - and the problem still persists.

My airply still gets lost almost each time I wake my iphone up when it's not already in use. I've had some, but limited success, in switching the wireless on the iphone on or off, or even the phone itself. I've played with many wireless access point settings (The wireless channel, 802.11g or n or mixed, channel width, transmission rate) and nothing really makes a difference. There is no problem in my iTunes finding the ATV2 on the wired network and even seemed OK when the ATV2 was on wireless. I think the problem is from the iPhone's side.

The only consistent way to have the iPhone find the Airplay device is to reboot the wireless access point, which is why I think most people who play with the router settings find that it works after - I assume most routers restart after saving new settings. It seems like the iPhone only does a proper "rescan" of the network connections to find airplay devices once the router reboots. I think this is a definite bug in the current iOS design and hope apple addresses is pretty quickly.

It's annoying the **** out of me and having to reboot my wireless each time I want to use airplay is pretty much defeating the purpose of the airplay concept to me.

I also had to reboot my iphone to get the airplay icon back - that is about 50 times since i got the atv2 %(

Now, finally I figured out that killing the "mediaserverd" background process does the trick!!!

I just open "sysinfoplus" (free app from standard cydia repo), find and tap "mediaserverd" and hit stop. When you flip back to ipod it starts that process again an the airplay icon comes back...

I have an I phone 4s, and I pad 2 and 2 Ipod touch's. They all show the Air Play icon when connected to my main wi-fi on my my Apple Airport Extreme, but none show the Air Play icon when connected to my Guest Network on the Apple Airport Extreme. Any help or ideas on this problem ???

I'm using HomeShare and Icons on iPhone, iPad and PC all at once occasionally disappear .. argh. I've tried turning everything off and on, and even flushed the toilet a couple of times. I found the simple solution of turning off wifi on iPhone, then turning it back on seems to work, and miraculously all icons on all devices reappeared.

Now if I could only get audio from occasionally dropping when running my PC via wireless, but I'm convinced there's no solution to that one and resigned to hardwiring via LAN cable which solves that one.

Shiawase Kiki Ongaku

Dan

I have an iPad 2 and 2nd gen. Apple tv, they are both updated to latest software, and the airplay button on my iPad and on all my airplay enabled apps is completely gone. I have rebooted my iPad, apple tv and router, and still the the airplay button is gone. Very confused, I have done every thing I can thing of and have read online and in the manual, please help.

None of this worked!

What did was re-booting my router. Icon appeared instantly.

I don't know why but this works:

On your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, navigate to Settings > General > International > Language and change to a different language (e.g. if you are using English, switch to French). The device will go through a language switch/reset process, and your AirPlay icon should be restored. Once your airplay is restored, go through the same procedure and reset back to English.

REstart wifi conection on iphone 4 S this worked for my on IOS 9