Airplay icon not showing on ipad 3

Press home button, hold in power button for several (10?) seconds, then release. Icon re-appears!

I remembered reading it in a different forum/thread.... Not sure who to credit, but the big reset did the trick. I have had to do it more than once. I'm not sure what causes it exactly.

The reset did it thanks for advice

Hi

I am having the same problem, the appleTv installed ok on my Tv I installed the update and enabled airplay but on my Ipad 3 version 6.1.3 there is no icon for airplay I have looked in videos and multitaking bar by the volume, I also tried resetting the Ipad. I cannot find the icon anywhere. Any suggestions - is this a common problem with Ipad3??

Thanks

Using airplay

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

The iPad's Airplay icon in music

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/ipad-music-controls-the-airplay-icon.html

Troubleshooting AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring

Apple TV: How to use AirPlay Mirroring

Thanks for your reply I have tried all of these and the icon isn't in the music either.

I think I will have to give up and sell the appleTv and warn friends about this issue.

Apple needs to sort this - so much for buying the latest tech!!!

I have an iPad 3, I have two Apple TVs, I've never had a problem with Airplay. If there was something Apple needed to sort then it wouldn't work for anybody.

Dual you have a dual band router? How old is your router? Are you sure the ATV and iPad are on the same network on the same band?

Thanks for the reply.

The modem is only 2 years old and I have only 1 network.

Everything else works fine on the network but the IPad will not show the airplay icon.

But is the modem a dual-band modem? With some of the early dual-band modems while the SSID is the same you can end up with the ATV connecting to the 5Ghz side while the iPad connects to the 2.4GHz side and they cannot see each other. The workaround is to set up your router with different network names for the separate bands so you can ensure which one you are connecting to.

Thanks for the reply.

How do I find out if the modem is dual band - I have checked the manual and it doesn't say anything about dual band. The modem was brand new 2 years ago from the national telephone company for this country.

I would call for support from the telephone company. Which leads to what might be another issue, their router may not be Bonjour packet compatible so they may need to send you a different router.

Thanks - I will try and get hold of Telecom to see what they say

Thanks - just spent 30 minutes on the phone to telecom - first they said it was nothing to do with the modem but the apple products instead, by end said they only do one sort of modem and that the only option is to buy an apple router to plug into it.

LOL, doesn't suprise me at all. You don't have to get an Apple router, any that have Bonjour compatibility would work, but the Apple Express would work nicely for you.

Thanks for all your help

Just looked - Apple NZ doesn't sell apple routers / express - so I may have to go with buying one from overseas (UK has them).

I have ordered a ligthning HDMI connection from apple and will try plugging the ipad direct into the TV and if that works will then sell the appleTv and wait for NZ to catch up before trying to go wireless again.

Thanks again for all your help

Thanks

I have:

1. Two iPads (latest generation, all software updated, configured similarly - close enough that there shouldn't be a difference in features displayed)

2. Airport Express (bonjour enabled, etc etc, stereo cable plugged into stereo)

3. Apple TV (home sharing and Airplay enabled, etc etc)

4. Mac Mini (main iTunes library, where everything gets sync'd and backed up)

5. MacBook Pro

6. iPod Touch

7. NAS (non-Apple based networked storage, where all the music files are stored, etc etc)

One of the iPads has the Airplay control button on the music control bar (Double click Home, slide app bar right).

The other iPad DOES NOT have the Airplay control button!

I have gone through every setting on both iPads and there is nothing to indicate why 1 has it and the other does not.

The iPad with the missing main Airplay control button does have Airplay control buttons IN the Apple apps that have audio capabilities (iTunes, Video) but if I play music via Pandora I cannot use Airplay to stream to my stereo through Airport Express or Apple TV.

My question to Apple Support is WHY does the main Airplay control button disappear to begin with? WHY WHY WHY?!?!

To all the people that say, "You have to reboot your network.... your Apple TV.... your blah blah blah", you DO NOT know what you are talking about. If you don't get the description of the root problem do not suggest "the obvious".

The only possible solution to restore the Airplay control button appears to be the iPad reset (hold down the Home button and Power button simultaneously). Which is what I'll try next, but I still want to know why it disappears to begin with, I should not have to jump the support hoops to 'fix' something that should just 'work'.

Ok, I'll get off my soapbox.

Thanks for listening.