Home Sharing Music Still Not Working after IOS 9 ?

A little late extra reply...

I am running 9.3.5 on an ipad (2, I think). I recently had to reset to factory state and I also re loaded all wanted apps - I didn't want to re load from a previous backup. This was to try and sort a problem brought about by an Apple ID change.

After completion I also had no home sharing. The reply by Kaitlan resolved my problem. Incidentally when I got this ipad, I mysteriously received a 'free download' ( a song by Kodaline). Was this a workaround by Apple to resolve the missing Library/Home Sharing issue. By having the one song in the library appeared to solve the problem. The song was there all the time until my rebuild.

When I rebuilt the iPad I had no songs so the menu was missing. Thanks to Kaitlan, I loaded one album and the menu returned. Without any songs there was nothing for the library selection menu (Artist, Album, Song etc.) to refer to, so no need for it. But, the Home Sharing tab is part of that menu!

One final point, when I switch on home sharing and select my library on my home pc, I get my 12,000 or so songs to stream. After a while of iPad non use, I find that the library has reset and I have to reload my library. Takes a while ?

SjH

Try restarting your router. I spent too much time restarting all my Apple devices with nothing to show for it, then restarted my router and home sharing works on everything, iPhone, Apple TV, and Macbook Air

My issue is that I don't keep any music on my phone, and because of such, the menu to switch to Home Sharing isn't available. Am I missing something?

I've already restarted my phone, my server, and my router. Do I really have to put music on my phone just to be able to connect to my shared library?

Hello, I am like you. I keep no music in ipad and stream only when im home. I could not get it working initially either in ios 9. I took my que from you though. I connected ipad to mac and loaded one song only on. Then unplugged etc. Tapped my music on ipad in music app, then gave me songs option in centre top of screen, when tapping you get a drop down that gives you a home sharing option which it did not before. So it seams unless you have one song or more physically on your ipad it wont give you option to home share.

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P.s. Not sure how this will play out on iphone but my example was on ipad mini 2.

I also had to load a single music file onto my iPhone5 in order to link to my iTunes library on my iMac. With no music on the iPhone there is no option to get to the library which is kind of a pain in the ***, Apple. Getting my shared library to show up on the phone took several minutes but that's probably because my library is about 18,000 songs. No resetting of my Time Capsule router was necessary.

Yup, I had to the same. Thanks to the advice found here otherwise I would still be going crazy over trying to get my Home Sharing network working again. I keep zero music files on the iPad and all music it played was streamed from my Mac, so to get the option I needed a song installed on it. Connected it via wire and transferred a single song and got it working.

Apple I bought into your system because it used it to be easy, it used to be intuitive, it used to to just work.

Can you please get your act together as you are becoming more and more like MS.

Same here, I couldn't get Home Sharing to show up no matter what steps I took. I restarted the Airport Extreme and then I got the Home Sharing link! Thanks for sharing the advice.

rrestarting the router did the trick for me also! Thanks for the info...