Q: Croosy Road Apple TV 4 Multiplayer Not Working

I Have the exact same issue. Multiplayer not working.

From a different site (I believe iMore)

How turn on Crossy Road multiplayer on the Apple TV

1. Open Crossy Road on your TV.
2. Go to the character picker, then scroll to the far left for multiplayer mode. (You'll need at least one character unlocked to open the character picker; if you don't have any unlocked, just play a solo game or two!)
3. On your iOS device, download and open Crossy Road, and tap the arrow in the bottom right corner.
4. Tap the game controller icon.
5. You should be connected after a few moments; you'll see a P2 or P1 in the top right corner to signify the multiplayer connection.

Make sure both the Apple Tv and the second person's device is on the same WiFi network (SSID) and may even try to have both on the same frequency (2.5 or 5) to see if that helps.

IF I may make a suggestion to turn off all devices (router, Apple TV, and whatever device is used for second player) and reboot.  It's possible a device is being assigned the same IP.

IVe uve had this happen with older routers before I started assigning each device it's own up within my routers.  Very frustrating.

IF that doesn't help then someone else will need to chime in unfortunately

I had the same issue. Restarting the phone had no effect, but restarting the apple tv did. I also noticed after doing that, that Crossy Road (on the apple tv) reflected all my acquired characters, too, whereas before it only had one character unlocked. Hope that helps.

Moogleii this worked for me. I reset my ATV and iPhone and was able to successfully connect to multiplayer as expected! I was struggling to figure it out too. Hopefully it won't be a regular step to play lol

@Moogleii @Protodd

IF restarting fixed your issue then it's highly likely your router isn't handling IP's very well.  This issue can happen on almost any router and it's especially a prevalent issue on older routers.  What usually works best to avoid this going forward is to assign IP's to each device within your router.

EXample i had a $200 router that was two years old and it wasn't very efficient at dynamically assigning IP's when you had too many devices on your network. Easy fix but tedious was to assign each device a specific IP within the router.

A Way to check is when having a connectivity issue is to check the assigned IP's of all devices. And chances are one is using the same as another.

IN my house we have three computers, two iPhones, two iPads, an iPod, two Apple TV's, A dish Hopper, A PS4, a Smart TV, and a connected Home theater Receiver. If we didn't have assigned IP's even the newest routers could stumble and dual assign the same IP at times.

I Have an Asus RT-AC87U which was over $200 last year and it also had that issue.

I had checked before restarting and they were using different IPs. I would imagine an IP collision would affect other services as well, but that was not the case.

It was the only issue i have experienced with the new ATV. The rest of my network devices continue to work flawlessly. the only issue was trying to use multiplayer on Crossy for the first time. My assumption is if someone comes over they will get a new ip and i will not have to restart the router (Apple Extreme) again...

It looks like everytime it required a restart of the Apple TV After you quit and restart. Is there a fix ?

Thanks Geotrax. It works !!

That worked for me as well, thanks!