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Downloaded Mavericks and there is no airplay icon. Went to system preferences and show mirrroring options in the menu bar when available is checked... ATV is on... Don't know what to do.
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Worked like a champ, Yabut!
Just unplug Apple TV (power plug) from back of unit...wait for a few seconds and plug back in. When in doubt, reboot.
Great!
Thanks a lot.
Serge
The Air Play icon did not show on my iMac Menu Bar and Apple TV (ATV) did not show on my iOS devices under Air Play. It did previously on all of them. Because the iMac and iOS devices all did not have the ATV access, I looked to the ATV for the problem.
An auto update on the ATV failed so I manually updated it but did not solve the problem.
On the ATV, I went to Settings, Air Play, and found it was toggled OFF. I toggled it on and the iMac and iOS devices all have Air Play to the ATV. The Air Play icon shows on the iMac Menu Bar and ATV appears on my iOS devices under Air Play.
Obviously Air Play must be on to work and it was on previously. I do not remember turning it off. My suspicion is that either the failed update turned it off, a successful update turned it off in error, or some other gremlin turned it off.
Regardless of why it was off, I'm glad I went back to the basics to ensure that everything was how it should be even though it worked before and I did nothing to change it. (or did I?)
I am having the same problem as many people here now that I have updated to Mavericks. I have a late 2007 (!!) iMac, and just upgraded the OS. There is no Air Play icon visible in iTunes, and no way to enable it (at least in no obvious fashion). I had previously used Air Play with iTunes and Airfoil as well for my wireless speakers), and can still use Airplay on my MBA mid-2011 model (however only with Lion installed). I do not have an Apple TV, btw.
I do want to have this option and would consider downgrading again to Mountain Lion just to resolve this issue.
Is there any kind of workaround for this? I'm not very technologically adept and my ability to deal with this on my own would probably stop at entering a couple of commands into Terminal... after that I would need a tech.
Aiplay in your task bar is directly related to the 'mirroring options in preferences/display.
Check the box at the bottom 'show mirroring options in the menu bar when available'
Job done. Image attached.
Go to Settings. Click Display. Click the box "Show mirroring options in the menu bar when available". The Airplay icon will show up in the menu bar.
This works perfectly..Thanks!
where is the airplay icon on mavericks?
