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Airplay icon is not showing up

I got an AppleTV last month and it has been working great until yesterday. Starting yesterday, the AirPlay icon stopped showing up and I can't figure out how to get it back. I've restarted my iPhone 4, iPad 2, updated iTunes on my Windows Laptop, restarted my router, restarted my AppleTV, and restored my AppleTV back to factory settings.

I got it to work once last night after changing the language setting on my iPhone to French and then back to English and for some reason that worked. When I came back later I was missing the AirPlay icon again and changing the language didn't work that time.

Everything I have is up-to-date (iPad is 5.0.1 and AppleTV is 4.4.4). I tried asking this in the AppleTV discussions but got no answers so I'm trying here now.

Everything else on the AppleTV appears to work fine. I've been watching Netflix without a problem and Home Sharing works as well. It's currently connected using the ethernet port and my iPad is on the same network. I tried connecting the AppleTV to the WiFi but that did not work either. I've double checked and AirPlay is turned on.

The *only* thing that changed within the last day is I got a wireless blue tooth keyboard for my iPad (which makes typing this post easy ^^) and I'm completely lost on what else to do to get my AirPlay working again.

Posted on Dec 18, 2011 4:45 PM

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bob98031

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Nov 2, 2013 6:18 PM in response to bob98031

Finally found it in another post: swipe up from the bottom, airplay shows up, thanks for letting us know Apple

Apr 8, 2014 5:28 PM in response to twesterm

I solved this problem by turning off router firewall.

FLUSA

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May 9, 2014 9:34 AM in response to twesterm

I've had nothing but problems getting my airplay icon to show up on my IPAD. But I read all the replies and used a combination of great solutions that I read on this thread after I thought about it for a bit. Thank you all. Here is what I did.....based on what I read:

1. I rebooted the IPAD and shut it down.

2. I then went to my Apple TV. I reset all of the airplay settings even if they appeared to be correct!!!!

3. I restarted the Apple TV on general settings.

4. I shut down the Apple TV.

5. I restarted my IPAD after about 15 minutes.

And now I have the airplay icon on the IPAD and Apple TV works just fine now along with my IPAD. Perfect.

Thank you.

Aug 4, 2014 1:03 AM in response to andrewbrick

the best to show up airplay in your ipad is download and install REFLECTOR on windows or mac then

1.open i tunes

2. authorize ur PC

3.turn on HOME sharing to on

4.ipad will now show the airplay icon

note:- reflector must be running in your taskbar(windows or mac)

Ericw1

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Oct 11, 2014 9:09 PM in response to rockmyplimsoul

fixed the problem by leaving then rejoining my network . Go to wifi setup, select your connection, select forget this network. Then find your network and rejoin.

Apr 11, 2016 6:03 AM in response to twesterm

I fixed this same issue using Airfoil

Airplay icon is not showing up