Q: Missing AirPlay Icon

Do you have an AirPlay device like AppleTV or an AirPort Express, and on the same wi-fi network as your iPhone?  You won't see the icon if you don't have an AirPlay device on the same network.

Is this an Apple TV 1 or Apple TV 2? If the latter make sure the software is updated.

Ams158 wrote:

 

First apple tv and it's updated.

That's the problem, 1st gen ATV does not support AirPlay.

No, it doesn't.

If you read this article:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4437

it appears that only Apple TV 2 supports AirPlay from iPad, iPhone, or Touch.  According to the article, the 1st generation Apple TV supports AirPlay only from a computer (which I didn't think was possible at all).

Nope.

Using AirPlay

modular747 wrote:

 

Nope.

Well, sort of.  The last row of the table in that article suggests that ATV 1 can do AirPlay from a computer, but not from a device. Perhaps that's what Dad is doing ....

Then he has an Apple TV 2, not the original (or both). You cannot mirror to the ATV 1, use it for AirPlay from an iDevice, nil, nada.

NO: "Nope" was in the context of this discussion - why he can't Airlplay from his iPhone.  He cannot send Airplay from his iPhone to an Apple TV1.

The original Apple TV was meant to play movies sent from the computer.  That's what it does - that's all it does.