Connection on Airplay keeps dropping, suspect caused by IOS 7

Update: Here's what worked for me - I turned off Apple's Firewall. Everything seems to be running perfectly now. And I mean everything that requires a connection outside my network.

I have the same exact problem as you. My iphone connects and plays through airplay on my denon AVR 3000 just fine until i shuffle. When in shuffle it plays a few songs and disconnects. Always between songs. I need to do a hard reboot to reconnect. This started with the 8.02 update. Until then every thing was fine. My Macbook pro works fine with airplay as well as other airplay connections so I know it is not the Denon or the router. When this first started after the 8.02 update I contacted Apple and after significant trouble shooting they replaced the iphone but the problem still persists. This is very frustrating because I like to shuffle my music. Apple must know there is bug but has not done anything about it. Very

disappointing.

I also have the same issue with my Iphone 4. I'm using Deezer app to stream music via airplay to my box. After 3-4 songs, always at the end of a song, it to stops.

To make it start again, I have to force reconnection to the box in the app's airplay menu.

It's all the more sad than it worked like a charm during years before it suddenly appeared.

This is the best answer I have found to this issue. I read a suggestion before I saw this to open some ports but I still had the problem. The 5 more port numbers this posts fixed my issue along with assigning 2.4ghz and setting channel to use instead of auto. Streaming from iOS perfectly! Made a call while streaming and music paused and came back by itself I have also been able to skip songs and it continue through that song. No dropping at all. Good find!

- Manually open the following ports in the router (port forwarding): 3689,5353,1900,5351,5350,7000,5000,123,53
(I used both UDP and TCP “just in case”). For detailed info: https://support.apple.com/hr-hr/HT201733.

- Manually assign one fixed wifi radio channel : prevent the router from automatically
switch channel.

- Force ATV to connect in 2.4Ghz band.

- Restart iOS device and router

I have this same Airplay issue, three versions of iOS later. They never fixed Airplay after iOS 7, iOS8, and now iOS 9 it is still happening. Oh the days of 100% working Apple devices. I miss 2009. I miss Steve.

By the way, can I block Diesel Vdub so I never see his responses?

I'm not sure this is an iOS problem. I am trying to use airplay on a MacBook Pro and have the problem of the connection dropping and sometimes a message from Mac OSX saying the connection with "family room TV" was lost.

I'm not sure this is an iOS problem. I am trying to use airplay on a MacBook Pro and have the problem of the connection dropping and sometimes a message from Mac OSX saying the connection with "family room TV" was lost.

If either of the devices is on WiFi, you may be experiencing interference. I believe OSX has a built-in capability to display the signal strength of nearby networks. You should try to pick a channel for your network that's different. Channels 1, 6, and 11, or any of the 5 GHz channels are best. Login to your router and change the channel.

You say this a lot, but it doesn't cut out to either of my Apple Airports, just my Apple TV, so how can it be the network?

Hi. Do you have a problem that you'd like to fix, or do you just want to argue? If you have a problem, you could start a new question, describe the problem, the fixes you have already tried, etc. It would also help if you described your network setup, routers, switches, APs, WiFi extenders, devices on ehternet or WiFi, etc.

You are quite the arrogant guy! You must be an Apple Genius.....I get a lot of dropouts and lost connections. It happens on the following for me:-

1) Ipad Mini 2

2) Iphone 6s

3) Ipad Air 2

and on all 5 Apple Tvs (3 here in Switz and 2 in Spain)

and on my brand new Swisscom router in Switzerland

and on my brand new Huawei router in Spain

Now what you got Bighead? Let me guess, you are 30, right?

Yes, i do have a problem, that's why I made the comment!

my Apple TV was working great 2 weeks ago, no problems with AirPlay from my iMac or movies from Apple, but this weekend everything freezes intermittently, music cuts out or movies stop. My internet is high speed and ATV is linked direct to Internet via cable.

OK. As I suggested, a new question might be a better way to handle this. But, have you tried the obvious steps of restarting the router, then power-cycling ATV? What version ATV is it? Have you made any changes related to DNS (internet name servers)?

So I don't know if everyone is still checking this thread. Honestly I just created a username just to help everyone out. So I've had problems with apple tv disconnecting and then I tried airplay from the Iphone and it disconnects every so often. So I'm currently testing a theory and its looking pretty good right now. I have a netgear wifi router connected to comcast right now. On my netgear router i gave apple tv the highest queue for QOS so it can monopolize the connection when being used. I also moved my firewall security down to the minimum on Comcast's wireless router. I honestly believe that was really the cause of the disconnects. I've been testing an 11 minute video off of youtube, airplayed to apple tv, and every since i adjusted the firewall setting to Minimum on Comcast it hasn't had a problem yet.

I had the same problems when I am using third-party products, like Synology DS Audio or Swinsian. But everythings works fine when I am using Airplay with iTunes on my Mac or Airplay on any iOS device. Maybe Apple has changed something in the Airplay protocol. (tested with ATV4 latest update, iOS 10, macOS Sierra)