Q: How to Mirror ipad to apple tv?

About AirPlay and Airplay Mirroring

AirPlay Mirroring requires a second-generation Apple TV or later, and is supported on the following Mac models: iMac (Mid 2011 or newer), Mac mini (Mid 2011 or newer), MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer), and MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer). For non-qualifying Macs you can try using Air Parrot.

Several Apple Articles Regarding AirPlay

Apple TV (2nd and 3rd gen)- How to use AirPlay Mirroring

How to set up and configure AirPort Express for AirPlay and iTunes

About AirPlay Mirroring in OS X Mountain Lion

iTunes 10- About playing music with AirPlay

Troubleshooting AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring

Using AirPlay

Thanks to the $15 Beamer, AirPlay streaming is still possible on Macs  that do not support Airplay and mirroring.

Another solution is the Air Parrot.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5209

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4437

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4215

Airplay missing icon - I saw this fix in another forum when someone upgraded their software and ended up loosing Airplay....sounded crazy but totally worked! My airplay icon is back, and working!!

On your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, navigate to Settings > General > International > Language and change to a different language (e.g. if you are using English, switch to French). The device will go through a language switch/reset process, and your AirPlay icon should be restored. Next navigate back to Settings > General > International > Language (translated into the new language, of course) and switch back to your original language.

 Cheers, Tom

This worked for me too!  Thanks!

I spent hours going through my Netgear router configuration. But the thing that worked for me was signing into "Home Sharing" in the settings>music section on my iPad. I restarted my iPad after doing this and I can now mirror my iPad to my Tv.

I have a 2012 iPad Retina - I just had to go to the App store and install the AirPlay App - very easy.

I 've tried all of the above except taking my iPad to the store to have AirPlay reinstalled.  None of the other  routes works for me (iPad2, all other hardware and software up to date) .  I had no problems until the second to last IOS update,  and so I am wondering if some of us are just unlucky in having a hardware+software combination for which the problem simply defies solution, sceptical perhaps by going to the Apple Store?

Interestingly, for a high percentage of videos the air play icon pops up on the screen and I can project the video from the iPad to my TV screen via Apple TV. This suggests that my networking is okay, and my hardware is okay, and. that some code change inside the IOS upgrade has simply  caused this function breakdown.  Do I have this all wrong?