Ever since I updated apple tv the airplay icon does not show up on my iPad/iPhone. If Apple TV is turned on (off standby,) icon appears. Have been through all the setting and tried all suggestions in a google search.

The problem is i can not see Apple TV in Itunes (latest version)

I have already the latest software version but can not install it because ATV3 never appears in my Itunes.

If I turn ATV3 on, Airplay appears on all my devices but never in Itunes

Apple TV (2nd and 3rd generation): Restoring your Apple TV

Hold options( in Windows - shift) while pressing restore.

And remember, there are two version of ATV3, old 2012 and new 2013. So make sure you have to download right firmware version. If firmware version is not for your version of atv then itunes wont let you restore it.

Thanks robbbX,

I restored ATV3, it downloaded and installed the (same) software V7 and then my devices did not connect anymore.

Then I did a restart and now everything is working like before.

Airplay Apple TV shows up on my Ipad, Ipod and Macbook Pro with ATV3 in sleep mode and can connect without any issues.

Guy

EDIT : !!

forget what i said, it's back to not working 😟

I have exactly the same issue following the latest software update.

The Airplay icon does not appear for any of my devices while the ATV 3 is in standby, as soon as you wake it up with the ATV remote it appears (and works normally thereafter).

Pretty annoying... ATV software is very buggy in general switching source devices (which never seems to be fixed) and now they've added this little gem.

Oh well.

Same issue here. Airplay is not possible with "wake-on-lan" feature. On 2nd gen ATV it works but on 3rd gen with latest software it just doesn't. I have tried with all different iDevices (iPad, iPhone 5s/4s, iMac etc).

Also USB-port on ATV3 is disabled on this newest software and device can not be detected with PC or iMac anymore. So it can't be restored too.

ATV2 detects just fine and is restorable if wanted.

It seems that 3rd gen ATV need power cable plugged in together with usb-cable to do a restore.

Just need to find 6.2 software and restore that and remember not to update ATV never again 😟

"Apple TV has to be connected to the network in order for airplay to work. Intermittent issues like that are typically caused by interference."

Not necessarily true now with the IOS8 and the Apple TV upgrades although I am having intermittent issues with connection through Peer to Peer connections also. I thinks there maybe a bug with the upgrades either IOS8 or the Apple TV, I managed to get it running yesterday for 3 hours but today nothing after having rebooted and using multiple iPads and iPhones.