Air Play icon does not appear on my toolbar on my Mac.

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Air Play icon does not appear on my toolbar on my Mac.

The air play icon is not appearing on my toolbar.

I am running OS X.7.5 on my mac and trying to connect it to my apple tv. Both my Mac and the apple tv are on the same wifi network. I can connect through my mac to the apple tv through itunes but I can not "mirror" my screen on apple tv since the air play icon is not there. I had no trouble connecting my iphone.Thank you!!

Mac Pro, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Jun 29, 2015 6:32 PM

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Carolyn Samit

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Jun 29, 2015 6:44 PM in response to martha37

See Requirements for using AirPlay Display > Use AirPlay to see your Mac screen on an HDTV - Apple Support

Your Mac must be running 10.8 Mountain Lion or later. It won't work on a Mac running v10.7.5.

v10.8 Mountain System Requirements

To install Mountain Lion, you need one of these Macs:

iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
Xserve (Early 2009)

 Your Mac needs:

OS X v10.6.8 or OS X Lion already installed
2 GB or more of memory
8 GB or more of available space

You can purchase Mountain Lion from Apple >> OS X Mountain Lion

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