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ios7 home sharing issue ( Video App)

After updated to iOS 7 and itunes 11.1, there are several issue I encounter with home sharing that I would like to share.


My problem is only in the video app. Music app works, no problem


My House have 3 media libraries (music + movie + TV), my wife, my daughter and myself. All three libraries work flawlessly with our 2 mac mini, 3 macbook, 1 imac, 3 ipad, 2 iphone, 2 apple tv and 1 ipod. After itunes 11.1 updated, home sharing doesn't seem to work. No problem, if anyone have problem with home sharing, simply do the following

1. turn off home sharing in itunes

2. turn off library sharing under itunes preferences

3. deauthorize your computer under "store" tab.

4. quite itunes

5. restart itunes

6. authorize your computer

7. turn on library sharing

8. turn on home sharing


After all these tinkering on the computer. ALL my apple tv and my 1st generation ipad (iOS 5.1.1) work perfectly. remote app works (ALL iOS), video app works (iOS 5.1.1). All my iOS 7 devices work..................... kinda,


After another hour of tikering, here is what I learn. Only 2 out of 3 libraries show up on video app (iOS 7). Libraries show up randomly without any order. If I shout down the app and reopen, I might get different libraries. No matter what, video app only display 2 libraries.


There is a "show all videos" option under setting -> videos which able you to watch videos purchased from itunes store. If I disable it, I only get 1 library show up on my shared. Rarely, I got 2 libraries show up in the video app, but mostly just 1 library.


From my point of view, there are definitely bugs crawling everywhere under the app. If anyone encounter the same problem, or anyone resolve this situation, please share your knowledge.


Just one conclusion, the app LOOKS GREAT! Execution............. not so great.


BTW Good luck on deleting videos from the app. The video app will quite unexpectly everytime you delete a video.

ALL iOS 7 product-OTHER, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 20, 2013 6:34 PM

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ios7 home sharing issue ( Video App)

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