Connection on Airplay keeps dropping, suspect caused by IOS 7

I belive that it is my iphone as it has all kinds of wifi bugs such as im connected to wifi and working .i have the wifi signal at the top by celluar signal then i go into my wifi settings and its just spinning like its trying to connect /sumtimes when i go to wifi in settings it locks up cant turn or or off cant scan 4 networks ,this happins to me all the time ,it very annoying when your a tec that installs internet and you have to restart your phone after changing a wifi password every time ,this issue arose with ios 10 on my 5s i now have iphone 7 and same issue ,still no fix at 10.2 ,im getting very sour about it not acceptable apple i expect more ,i never had this issue prior to ios 10,and this hapoins on pretty much every router i install ,and it happins on my router wich is my own and of a different name and style and i do mean from day 1of ios 10 and counting , i want to return my iphone 7 as it preforms poorly for me in feild and id like ro go back to ios 9 on my 5s

Hi JeshuaH,

This works for me mostly as well. It was a bit finicky to get it right the first time. It took me several attempts to get it to work.

They key is to watch iTunes on your Mac. When the sound drops and the triangle goes orange. Click the play/pause button on the remote as quickly as possible. The triangle should now become blue again almost immediately. (If it stay orange then rather disconnect and reconnect from the speaker setup in iTunes and wait for it to drop again.) Then once you could get the triangle to turn blue from orange using the ATV remote, it seems you have to click the play/pause button on the AppleTV remote two more times to get the iTunes play button to change from play to pause. Then after a few seconds it should start playing again. (So three clicks of the play/pause button on the ATV remote in total was what worked for me.)

It still drops the connection to the Apple TV4 but only seems to happen when you click on the (blue) triangle to change the speaker setup. Even if you do not change anything, the connection to the Apple TV drops soon thereafter.

So sure looks like a bug as I also airplay to my Marantz in a different room and it keeps playing perfectly with no dropped connections during all of this. It only seems to be the AppleTV that kept on dropping the connection, unless you perform your AppleTV remote trick.

Thanks again, it is a workable work-around until they can pin-point and fix the bug.

Regards

Paul

My setup: MBPr 2015 (Sierra v10.12.3) on WiFi, playing iTunes (v12.6.0.100) and airplay to Apple TV4 (10.1.1) on cat-6 Ethernet Connection and Marantz MCR611 on cat-6 Ethernet connection. My network uses a D-Link ADSL router and a Tenda 24-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch.

😉 Hello thanks so much for all your time trying to debug this dropping issue.

I have another scenario for you to solve. You are right as many users here have mention of being watching or hearing a content AirPlayed. But what happens when you are just Mirroing a screen for presentation porpuses.

With the lastest edition of the Macbook and Macbook Pro on a Apple TV Gen 3. I am having this drops with everything, the laptops connected to the plug. But randomly after 1 min or so. The Airplay drops. A bit beyond the remoto control factor this is another bug that need to be address.

Btw even with the warning to be banned. All this "experts" Level 6 or Level 8 here.... besides politely and rudely reply to the costumers, use your channels to reach the ones in charge of solving this bugs and not frustrating more constumer with your canned replies.

Thanks

Having this issue with my MacBook (latest Sierra). Streaming to an AirPort works for some time but all of a sudden the connection is dropped and it switches back to local speakers. Also when playing YT often when auto-playing the connection falls down dead on the next video and a reload is needed. It seems to be more stable when a) I use an external WiFi to another WLAN station not being the AirPort and b) TimeMachine is not active.

I was using my iPhone and I ran into this issue with the Apple TV Gen 3 I was for sure certain it wasn't my connection, so I decided to turn the Bluetooth on my phone off and that seemed to do the trick I haven't ran into that issue for about a week now I'm not sure if this will work for everyone but it helped me.

Airplay is such a piece of junk. I used to be able to use it all the time. Now when I try to put it up on my TV in full screen mode, I get the stupid spinning wheel. Isn’t that the WHOLE point of airplay & apppletv. This product is horrible

Troubleshoot the network, it is not an iOS issue.

It's not the network. I have the same issue. The iPhone 4 from two (three?) years ago holds the connection like a champ. The brand new ipad running iOS 7 drops it at seemingly odd intervals while listening to music from it via my Apple TV. Today, I found that it also dropped it whenever the "buy a new brush" dialogue was brought up in the Paper sketching app.

I have the same problem. my music seems to drop within a couple minutes of playing over Apple TV. Airplay needs to be fixed.

There is nothing in AirPlay that needs to be fixed, the issue is the network. If the intent is to have AirPlay fully functional, stop blaming Apple and troubleshoot the network. Then when the real problem is found, fix it.

I've already established that the point of failure is in the newer device. If it were the network, I'd be having similar difficulties with my iOS 6 device as well. I am not. You can decree AirPlay's perfection til you are blue in the face; it won't change the fact that I am only running into trouble on my iOS 7 device. I will be ignoring any further posts from you, vdub, until you start adding something to the discussion.

You also cannot change the fact that it simply works for the vast majority of users. Those posting here with problems are a fraction of a percentage of iOS users. The issue is not iOS, it is something specific to the environment in which those users are having issues.

Ignore reality if you like, but enjoy malfunctioning equipment.

Can confirm this as well. All my iOS7 devices drop from Apple TV several times over a 3 minute period. Zero problems before ios7.

I too, am having issues of dropping Airplay signals on a new iPhone 5C and a 4S and iPad with iOS7...My MacBookAir (OS X 10.8.5) connects and holds like a champ...as does an older 2009 Mac with OS X 10.9 running Airparrot.

It's only the iOS7 devices that seem to drop the signal after a few minutes...

Love to see an Apple rep jump in here.

I have the same issue. As soon as my Ipad goes into powersave mode I lose connection. I have done software upgrades to both AppleTV and IPad but it hasn't improved situation