AirPlay/Apple TV won't stream iPod or Pandora with iPhone 4
For some odd reason, I am unable to use AirPlay to get either my iPod music or Pandora to play on Apple TV using my iPhone 4. The AirPlay icon appears in both apps and I am able to select "Apple TV" upon tapping on AirPlay, but neither of the two will appear on my TV, nor do I hear the audio. What's even more strange, I am successfully able to use AirPlay with YouTube and the photos on my iPhone but Pandora and my iPod music won't work.
The AirPlay icon appears in the bottom right-hand corner on both apps (Pandora and iPod), and it allows me to select "Apple TV" so I would have to assume both apps support AirPlay.
All the apps support audio Airplay. I listen to the Pandora radio app on my Apple TV2 all the time this way so it should work. Try rebooting your phone.
I tried rebooting my phone several times, rebooted Apple TV, still not working. I also tried my buddy's iPhone 4 as well just to make sure it wasn't my phone and even my buddy's phone wouldn't work. And like I said, what's weird is that I'm able to watch youtube via airplay just fine on my Apple TV, and I'm also able to do the same thing with the photos on my iPhone. But for some reason, I cannot use Pandora or the music I have on my phone.
I don't know if maybe there's something on the settings I'm not doing right...
Did you ever manage to get a fix for this? I am seeing the same thing. Iphone Videos, photos and You Tube work fine with Apple TV.....but my Music will not stream....I check Apple TV but no data is sent?
I am also seeing the same thing with both the ipad and the iphone. Icon is there, but no streaming with Pandora or Netflix. Youtube is about the only app. that works. Anyone find a fix for this?
I ended up turning off the power to the Apple TV and restarting it....everything worked fine for 24 hours then the same thing again? Tonight I have used the Restore option....all working again now....will keep you posted
I have the same problem. Pictures and videos work fine, but although I have the Apple TV icon on the music it does not play through Apple TV. Would love to get this to work, real pain have to go upstairs and turn on the mac to access itunes.
Wifi is turned on and on the same network as Apple TV 2. Icon is there and Youtube works, others, (Netflix, abc.com. pbs, etc.) will switch to AppleTv on the iPad and iPhone, but nothing shows up on Apple TV.
Same problem occurring here, although not consistently. Apple TV had worked with AirPlay since day one, but failed today. Nothing could get it to work. I reset settings, and then it was fine for a short while but failed again. Restarted the Apple TV and it's intermittently working. It sometimes appears to ignore the iMac home-shared content, too, so I'm thinking this in my case could be a networking issue (i.e. cruddy router) rather than anything else. Maybe check that's not the case for you.
I am not 100% positive, but I believe you have to have iTunes running on the network so that your iPhone can be "discovered" and Airpay can work through Apple TV. Try it and see if that is in fact the case. I always have iTunes running and I have had no problems with Airplay, or anything else for that matter. To me, the ability to play Pandora trough Apple TV to my HDMI AV receiver and surround sound is worth the $100 for Apple TV by itself. The floating photo screen saver on the HDTV, using photos from my PC photo library, is not too shabby either.