Airplay stops

My humble advice: don't waste your time on deniers. iTunes and Airplay have always been full of bugs, inconsistencies and unexpected behaviors. But, as usual, with iTunes Apple prefers to use a nice make-up instead of radical surgery. The product has always been disastrous and the only change along all these years is the way it looks like but not the way it works. Lots of persons have the same issues you and I have explained but, still, for some persons is "a problem with your network"... It's a copy of the typical answer you get when calling for support to your cable or Internet company...

Airplay issues started with me when I added some homekit devices. iPhone X keeps cutting airplay from safari or just doesnt start from other apps. Good old iPad air works. Next iOS is going to focus on all kinds of bugs to be fixed I heard. Hope thats the case, because iP4 was the best Apple product and reason for me to go all in with Apple. Since that, every software seem to have problems. It just works should be the frase again asap...

This was happening to me yesterday as well while trying to AirPlay videos from my iPhone 7 to my AppleTV 4. It would stop playing as soon as my phone locked, which has never been an issue in the past until I upgraded to iOS11.

I have the same issue.. it is NOT related to radio interference. I've tested the connectivity in multiple environments, ALL of which worked perfectly prior to the IOS 11 upgrade. I have the same problem AirPlaying with both my IOS 11 device ON and OFF the network (connected directly to the ATV).

Steps for Direct Connect to the AppleTV from my IOS 11 (iPhone 6S Plus) Device..

- Power on AppleTV

- Make sure WiFi and Bluetooth are enabled on both the AppleTV and IOS 11 Device

- Make sure they are NOT connected any wireless network or other Bluetooth Device

- Start up a video source that has an AirPlay option

- Connect the IOS 11 Device to the AppleTV via AirPlay

-- Wait for it to drop the AirPlay connection (at least for me it does)

Same happens to me. On my iPhone 7 plus ios 11 airplay stops every 2 minutes if i stream video from netflix app, amazon app or similar apps to my appleTV tvOS 11.0. It works if i use the display mirror option from the control center. Also on my wifes iphone 6 the problem does not occur.

Intermittent problems are often a result of interference. Interference can be caused by other wifi networks in the neighbourhood or from many household electrical items.

You can download and install iStumbler (NetStumbler for windows users) to help you see which channels are used by neighbouring networks so that you can avoid them, but iStumbler will not see household items that cause interference.

Refer to your router manual for instructions on changing your wifi channel or adjusting your multicast rate (which may help where interference is present. You might also try moving the Apple TV away from other electrical equipment.

There are other types of problems that can affect networks, but this is by far the most common, hence worth mentioning first. Networks that have inherent issues can be seen to work differently with different versions of the same software or from device to device, so just because it worked before or works with a different device doesn’t exclude interference as a problem.

The following article(s) may help you.

Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections

Recommended Wi-Fi settings

Sources of Interference

Wifi Diagnostic Software (for Mac users)

You may also find some help on this page, where I’ve collected some of the more unusual solutions to network issues.

I understand that some of the suggested software (whilst once free) has become pay-ware, I suggest you look around, you may find free alternatives.

Typical answer... “let’s blame the WiFi”...

avlasich wrote:

Typical answer... “let’s blame the WiFi”...

And why do you suppose that is? 😁

Bugs? Or you are going to tell us that apple software is "free of bugs" too? Read the other posts and you will notice that the problems reported are not related to wifi issues...

Really???? Still blaming the network? As we say in my country, the worst blind is who doesn’t want to see...

Why does Apple TV stop mirroring after a couple of minutes on my iphone

Hey there. I've experienced frequent interruptions in AirPlay now for more than half a year and I think I solved it today for me. I usually mirror my MacBook to Apple TV 4K (the outages also occurred with Apple TV 4th gen). After reading here and there through the web I tried to narrow possible source of interferences down (assuming that this caused the outages). I eventually realised that a Netatmo Healthy Home Coach seems to be the culprit. It fits round about with the time when I installed it home when the outages began. When unplugged the Netatmo device I haven't seen any outages in AirPlay through time periods of about 5 minutes (that's at least how long I sampled). After plugging the Netatmo back in AirPlay would fail within the next 2 minutes. Now I have to reconsider the position of my Netatmo device which was about 1 m away from the Apple TV. So even if you don't have a Netatmo device, hopefully my experience helps to narrow the issue down for some of you folks. Fingers crossed!