IOS 6 airplay problem

- I currently have a iphone 4 and a ipad 2 both updated to ios6. When i am trying to send a video (ie. youtube,netflix ect.) to my apple tv 2 (from either device) it only plays the sounds (no video) this worked flawless before i updated to ios6. Any ideas?


On a side not airplay mirroring does work on my ipad 2 fine, just not normal airplay :/

AppleTV 2, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 19, 2012 3:05 PM

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Posted on Oct 8, 2012 6:40 PM

Hi guys,


I encountered the same issues and finally cleared it with the following resolution:

- Reboot your Wi-Fi router.

- Turn on your "Airplane mode" in your iOS device and then turn it off.


That's all. This method is safe and you don't need to change and initialize your devices. This was successful on my iPod Touch (5Gen) plus Remote app + AppleTV (2Gen) + the latest iTunes on MacOS X Lion.


If possible, update your AppleTV's firmware and iTunes to the latest as well.

If the issue persists, try unregister/register the AppleID on your AppleTV/iOS device/iTunes. (I believe this may be unnecessary in most cases).


I guess that some new iOS6 packets that relates to AppleTV and AirPlay sometimes disturbs by some Wi-Fi routers. Thus rebooting the Wi-Fi router catches and passes the new packets from iOS6 devices and clears the issue.

I'm unsure why turning on/off the Airplane mode clears the issue. This looks a small discrepancy in the new iOS 6.


Note that this is just my speculation.


Cheers,

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Sep 23, 2012 6:17 AM in response to iHouseFreak

Thank you for the heads up ... I just realized that my mirroring was left turned on so when I played the video via airplay, obviously it worked...


"Native" AirPlay then fails too on the iPhone 5 from YouTube. AirVideo, Safari, VLC and even Facebook videos are working just fine on the other hand.


Sorry for this confusion, I did not have "Mirroring" on my old 4 ... Getting used to ;)

Sep 23, 2012 8:18 AM in response to Community User

same issue: after upgrading to iOS6 no AirPlay video on iPhone4 and ipad2!!! This is definitly an iOS issue and not a YouTube related issue. In my oppinion apple decided to switchof this functionality on purpose. Even the video app of apple won't work with my appletv2 anymore! I'm really very disappointed with apple and ios6. Maps app *****: no streetview, incorrect information on map app, no video via AirPlay and minor not relevant new features (supporting multiple signatures in mail at last but why no mailbox indicator in the mail list)....

Sep 23, 2012 2:24 PM in response to davidfromcarrabelle

Upgrade to IOS6 was a definite mistake:


Apple map gives wrong direction!? How can that be? Gmap works somewhat but in Safari not as before!


Downloaded Jasmin and can get to YouTube videos to work with "Airplay" but very clunky and not smooth. This also took reboot of both my iPhone4 and iPad2 to get "AirPlay" to work.


Very frustrated with this. Lessons learned, DO NOT upgrade with anything new from Aplles for at least 6 months.

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