iPad 2 – Airplay can't see Apple TV

You have an interesting issue! You described it very well, thank you.

One possible cause is that you are using your iPhone in a peer-to-peer AirPlay mode. See the Peer-to-Peer AirPlay section here:

Use AirPlay to wirelessly stream content from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

The iPhone supports peer-to-peer AirPlay while the iPad is too old to support it.

To make a long story short, please check that the iPhone, iPad, AirPort Express and Apple TV are all on the same WiFi network. Peer-to-peer AirPlay would explain your symptoms above if not all four devices were on the same network.

Interesting!

I also have iPhones, iPads, an Apple TV (3rd gen), and an AirPort Express (latest). All have the latest software and firmware.

While the iPhones see both the Apple TV and AirPort Express, interestingly, my wife's iPad 3 only sees the Apple TV and does not see the AirPort Express!

II'm having the same exact problem to a T. None of my devices are set to sync over wi if so that isn't the fix.

Hi db67

It seems to me that there has been some unannounced changes to the way AirPlay works on the iPad, while apparently nothing has changed in that

regard with iPhones.

A few minutes ago I realized I had the same problem you describe above, and after going through all the setup checks and resets, etc., I accidentally

stumbled into the solution in a very simple way!

From the home page on iPad, or from any page for that matter, you can slide up from the bottom to launch the Control Center,

then touch the AirPlay button at the bottom and voila! there is your AppleTV/iPad toggle.

Unfortunately, I find that the AppleTV can only be turned on from there and not from within Apps. You can however switch back to

playing/displaying your content on the iPad from within Apps, but once you switch back to the iPad, the only way to get back on the AppleTV

again is to go through the above process.

'Hope this helps for now. Please let me know if you find any other solutions.

I Think they changed the way the list is displayed on the iPad. Now only 2 options are in the window view, try scrolling down in the list (there is no visual indicator that more options follow/the list is lnger than the two you see). Note all users in this thread with this problem also are running an AirPort as the WiFi network, which adds one entry to the AirPlay options and unfortunately displaces the AppleTV to #3 in the list.

Thank you Dbconlin for sharing your insight. This resolves the 'missing AppleTv' dilemma. I don't use AirPort, yet have the same issue you described.

My AirPlay dialog box displays a blank line at the top followed by an only visible line, iPad, unless as you clarified I scroll down to reveal AppleTv.

I'm curious though as to why none of my iPhones have had any issues with this.

Thank you again,

Hello, I was wondering if you had any update on your issue, because I have the same than you.

It's not in a home environment though, it's at my workplace.

We have a laboratory using approximatively 30 iPad 2 and an Apple TV 3rd Gen and last month our Apple TV glitched and we had to restore it to factory default.

We set it exactly as it was before, everything was working then (iPad 2 were detecting the Apple TV and could mirror, etc.

Now, the iPad 2 (all of them) can't see the Apple TV in the AirPlay menu, but they do detect all the other Airplay-enabled devices on our network.

My personal iPhone 5S see the Apple TV via P2P Airplay, my colleague's iPhone 6 see it too and the Apple TV is definitely working by itself, it access internet and such, so it's not a connectivity issue.

The only thing I can't confirm is whether the Airplay feature is broken for all non P2P-capable devices or just for the iPad 2, because we don't have other models available.

Did you attempt to tap and scroll the list of Airplay item in the Control Center?

Already checked, not the issue.

But I believe my problem is slightly different than db67's

I started another thread : In the latest iOS updates, did Apple change the way Airplay communicate with other devices through Wifi?

Oh, I'm glad it worked for you!

I figure it would be harder for us to go and disable all the other listed device because we are quite a big business and there are many laptops listed on the iPads' control panel and 2 other apple TV (which is strange because this building only have one haha.)

Keep me informed whether your Apple TV disappeared upon re-enabling your other device.

Thanks!

excellent work finding this change of list configuration- I should have looked this up earlier - spent the afternoon disconnecting Apple Tv's, routers etc - no thanks to the official line of support. your little scroll list advice was exactly my answer, there it is it's been there all the time!!! No wonder lots of people will not do upgrades.