DavidInBama

Q: when did home sharing stop working

I used to use Home Sharing with iTunes but as of late it just won't work. I'm using a first generation iPad, iTunes 12.01.26, and Windows 8.1. I can close and reopen iTunes and it will show up temporarily but within minutes it's gone. It used to work flawlessly but some update killed it, either iTunes or Windows 8.1.

I've adjusted power settings on my PC so that it doesn't go into sleep mode, uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes, done a factory reset on my iPad, even done some tricks around IPV4 vs. IPV6 in my network settings. Nothing works.

I've looked all over the forums for some kind of solution but after awhile it just seems like Apple doesn't want to be bothered with finding out or fixing the problem so they created these forums so end users can figure it out amongst themselves.

I was considering getting a new iPad but one of the main features that attracted me was Home Sharing. If it's not going to work anymore there's no compelling reason for me to stay with Apple as I can get the other features I want from a similar Android tablet at half the price.

iPad, iOS 4.3.3, Actually up to iOS 4.3.5 now.

Posted on Jan 24, 2015 5:51 PM

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