AirPlay issues in iOS6.0

I am experiencing similar issues since upgrading to ios 6 on my iPhone 4S and iPod touch 4th gen. When I go to AirPlay music, the airplay symbol comes up orange instead of blue. Music does start to play through the receiver via AppleTV, but cuts in and out (like it is have trouble buffering). This does the same thing on both devices on iOS 6. Interstingly enough my iPad on ios 6 works ok - athough it is running on the 5GHZ band on my Dual Band router (I might try turning that band off and force my iPad to use the same band as the iPod and iPhone to isolate that out).

Luckily I still have one device on iOS 5 - an iPhone 3GS. So I tried AirPlaying music with it after the issues experienced above and as you will expect, it works perfectly. AirPlay icon is blue and music streams without issue.

So I reckon I have proved it is an issue that has been introduced with iOS 6 for the iphone 4 and iPod touch. Very annoying because it was one of the key reasons we bought the AppleTV. So now it is rendered all but useless. I did check to see if there was an AppleTV update hoping it would fix the issue, but it was up to date (5.1).

So I placed a support call to Apple on Monday and was on the phone to them for 2 hours. Within 10 minutes I had their senior troubleshooting technician on the phone. We tried a number of things including resetting the network settings (Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings), rebooting my router and AppleTV - but to no avail. The outcome is that the issue has now been escalated and is currently being investigated by Apple.

So hopefully it means they will find a bug and release an update with a fix.

Please post if you are experiencing similar issues so we can demonstrate to Apple that this is not an isolated problem - i.e tha it is not signal interference - which i can prove in my circumstance by the pure fact that the iPhone 3Gs on ios 5 works flawlessly.

Thanks.

Hi just experience the same issue too . Since i updated to IOS6, my itouch 4th gen doesnt show the airplay icon anymore :(. I have also have a itouch 3rd gen which experience the same issue . 1st Ipad still working eventhou has IOS 5.

MBA 2012 with mountain lion is working flawless . I used to listen music in my kitchen to the itouch 3rd, 4th gen trough ATV over airplay. Another bug probably with this Unfinished version of IOS6 . Hopefully they will fix it in the next update.

I am also experiencing the same skipping issue, its like I am back in JR High with my first walkman all over again. At first I thought it was just with the Pandora App, but iTunes does it as well. Very annoying!

Updated Apple tv 2

Updated iPhone 4 to iOS 6

Updated iPad 2 to iOS 6

Hopefully Apple comes with a fix soon because plugging in the 3.5mm jack is not what I had in mind and why I purchased the Apple TV

I am having the same issues with the orange airplay icon and not being able to play. Smetimes even with the orange icon it plays sometimes it doesn't but there's definitely an issue with airplay and iOS6. Hopefully we get a patch soon.

Same problem here, upgraded both iPhone4 and iPad2 to iOS6 and audio become choppy when streaming to my Denon receiver. Had that problem before when using iOS4, seems to be fixed in iOS5 but now it's back.

Same issue for me, my iPhone 4s and iPad 2 don't "see" my AirPlay audio device anymore (Yamaha RX-V473) after installing iOS 6. Yesterday I did some tests with a friends iPad having iOS 5 and the AirPlay device worked properly. So I did some additional investigation in the sometimes (dis)appearing AirPlay icon in several audio apps.

First I checked or the audio device was available on my network and used the Yamaha AV Controller App on my iPad and iPhone. The audio device was available in my network and I could access all kind of functionality and settings, but no AirPlay icon in the standard iOS Music App, Spotify App, etc..

But when I changed the device name of the audio device, using the AV Contoller App, the AirPlay icon appears in all AirPlay supporting apps and audio streaming worked perfect, with a small delay on control actions but that was the same in iOS 5. Also restarting the iPad and iPhone worked, but that is a to much time consuming action in my opinion!

The AirPlay icon disappeared when:

- I connect my iPhone to my WiFi network

- I receive a FaceTime call from another iOS 6 device (not with iOS 5 device!)

- FaceTime call with my iPhone

- Watch a YouTube movie with Jasmine App

- Try to connect from iTunes on my PC

- Sometimes after using Safari

Strange is that my AirPlay device was always accessible from my iPad and iPhone using the Yamaha AV Controller App, what tells me that the network is working fine. This app is also needed for my workaround to activate the AirPlay icon again by changing the name (< 5sec.)! :)

I'm convinced that this is something within iOS 6, because I didn't have problems with iOS 5 using exactly the same configuration for some time. Also the standard Yamaha app always finding my device stronger my thoughts about the main suspect, iOS 6.

Hopefully this will be solved soon, because "It just works!" is no standard behavior in iOS 6.

Regards, Peter (NL)

See my reply to Neel2012.

It is not possible to speak about an isolated problem reading all complaints about iOS 6 and AirPlay! :)

Regards, Peter (NL)

Just found a solution to the airplay issue . I restored the software ! Seems working fine, no dropouts no issues .

Open Itunes , back first and then hit restore to factory settings. After the installation chose the bakup to restore .

Voilla !

Hope is going to work for all folks with this problem. :)

Just checking something; does anyone experiencing this issue have their AppleTVs connected via an ethernet cable?

My AppleTV is connected via ethernet cable.

My AirPlay device is also connected hard wired via an ethernet cable.

My AppleTV is also connected via hard-wired ethernet (Gigabit). I have not yet heard back from Apple Support, so will be calling to see where they are at with this issue.

I am also having the same issue with my apple TV. It will play a long for a minute or so and then drop out. Also, like others on here are furious with the IOS6's abilities for air playing. I wish I could go back to IOS 5.