What does an orange AirPlay icon mean? This is all I get today; not able to stream music from my iPad 2 through an AirPort Express to my stereo. It worked fine last week when I used AirPlay from my iPad 2. I am able to steam iTunes music from my iMac.

Hi,

I also have the same problem. It shows an orange airplay icon when I try to play music through my ipad or iphone, it plays you tube perfectly fine with the normal blue airplay icon showing up. I recently changed my wifi password and wish I hadn't!

Hopefully someone can help.

I think Apple merely changed the color of the Airplay icon. It is orange when it is streaming to an Airplay speaker or other Airplay device.

The wifi problems you describe are probably unrelated to the color change in the icon. Have you tried doing a reset on your devices? FYI, my Airplay icon is orange when connected via Wifi to an Airplay device, and Blue when connected via Bluetooth to headphones or my car.

I have played around and it's all fixed (not sure what I did and I don't think it was working all along), Tgara, you're right the icon colour has changed to orange for music (but still blue for you tube).

Cheers

grunta22 wrote:

I have played around and it's all fixed (not sure what I did and I don't think it was working all along), Tgara, you're right the icon colour has changed to orange for music (but still blue for you tube).

Cheers

Good you got it sorted!

I was wrong about one thing. Regardless of how I connect (e.g., wifi or Bluetooth), the Airplay icon in an Apple App turns orange when connected to a device, not blue as I mentioned above. This is probably why you see blue in the Youtube app.

Tgara wrote:

grunta22 wrote:

I have played around and it's all fixed (not sure what I did and I don't think it was working all along), Tgara, you're right the icon colour has changed to orange for music (but still blue for you tube).

Cheers

Good you got it sorted!

I was wrong about one thing. Regardless of how I connect (e.g., wifi or Bluetooth), the Airplay icon in an Apple App turns orange when connected to a device, not blue as I mentioned above. This is probably why you see blue in the Youtube app.

OK, I am retracting all my posts about the airplay icon and it's color scheme. 😊

Seems as if the airplay icon on the music app is orange, but the airplay icon on the podcast app is blue. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to these color schemes or their significance, so I am abandoning all further speculation. 😁