ios 11 screen mirroring/airplay trouble

Hey

I am facing this similar issue

The airplay disconnects after 2-3 mins of streaming ...

Mirroring doesn’t break if there is no streaming

But whenever mirroring is used while streaming a video, the connection breaks after 2-3 mins

Need a resolution as it’s very much annoying

I had the same problem when mirroring an iPad Air 2 to an Apple TV Gen3. It was solved by resetting the WiFi connection on the iPad (Settings, General, Reset, Reset Network Settings), and power cycling the WiFi router. Not sure which of these was the cure, or if it required both, but I am glad this worked. This was a frustrating problem! Good luck, all.

This is a wide spread problem with IOS. 11. I went back to 10 and have no issues with mirroring now.

Your never going to get an admission of faulty system coding from Apple. It’s obviously the worst new IOS release in their history and they know it.

This was happening to me with the Amazon Prime video app. My cable provider is Comcast/xfinity, and my current router is theirs, and relatively new. Looking around, I found some advice to quit the app and then restart it, and after doing that, my problem seems to have been cured. Your mileage may vary, of course.

So- I reset my router, and did a hard reset on the iPad. Neither of those made any difference to the mirroring time-out issue, and, like you, everything else connected with my wi-fi functioned flawlessly before and after the iOS update. It was just the mirroring that disconnected after about 2 or 3 minutes. However, after force quitting and then restarting the app on my iPad, the issue seems to have vaporized. Whether that’s what did the trick or not, I can’t say. We’ll see if the problem recurs. If so, I’ll post again.

I also wondered whether it was Comcast, Amazon, or Apple not playing nicely with each other. But that may not be it. At least not until net neutrality is rescinded...

Interesting that Vazandrew has responded quite rudely to my last input whereby I have simply noted that an upgrade to IOS 11.1.2 yesterday has so far fixed the problem of Airplay not working since I upgraded to IOS 11 from IOS 10.

I am responding as a reply here because I cannot respond to Vazandrew's reply - perhaps he has blocked me? I am taken aback that he has been arrogant and dismissive of the fact that all my experiences of the system not working would indicate it is not a network problem but one generated by the IOS system. My reasoning - my husband's IOS 10 Iphone continued to operate airplay as normal but mine after the upgrade wouldn't. A network issue would affect his device as well. And how else can it be explained that prior to IOS 11 my Iphone worked perfectly and only after upgrading to 11.1.2 did it resume working again? With respect Vazandrew you cannot correctly diagnose my particular issue without proper examination and testing of my devices and their interaction within the system. Your response in accusing me of a rant is completely inappropriate and given your negative responses to other posts I wonder if you shouldn't be refraining from participating in the discussion. And I shall leave it at that.

I have the same issue, have been sending workout videos (from same website) from my iPad to my tv via my Apple TV using mirroring. I have been doing this up to 5 times/week for at least a month. I updated my iPad to iOS 11.2 today and it kept Crashing. Finally I used my phone and it still worked. Def related to the iOS update, nothing else has changed.

I have done some tests on this problem and managed to resolve this by turning off Bluetooth on iPad.

The test with the problem:

mirroring from iPad when i am running a movie from the netflix app to Apple TV.
After 2-3 minutes the mirroring just disconect

Do you have the opportunity to do this test to see if it works for you too?

Turn off screen mirroring / airplay and then turn off Bluetooth on iPad and restart iPad, then test.

Apple TV gen3

- connected via Ethernet.

iPad: IOS 11.1.2

Welp, I thought I had the issue resolved, but tonight it recurred. Using Amazon Prime Video, streaming, mirroring to Apple TV. The mirroring would shut off after about 3 minutes. I’m trying to get the mirroring back on, I noticed that it appeared to have switched over to another iPad that was in the room.

Therefore, I tried turning off the wi-fi on the other iPad, and it hasn’t happened since.

So- perhaps there is some sort of actual, or unintended, “preference” for mirroring to an iPad, as opposed to an Apple TV? Because it certainly seemed to want to swap devices, spontaneously.

I have found a solution that so far seems to work for me:

I switched OFF bluetooth, then started screen mirroring, and then launched the Amazon APP and it all connected and started playing on my big screen right away with no issues whatsoever. Just as an experiment I switched bluetooth back, on while it was still Airplaying, and this didn't seem to affect it at all.

I will be running a long term test tonight (i.e. watch a few shows) but considering nothing at all would Airplay yesterday, so far this is a positive sign.

I'm using an Apple TV3 and an iPhone 7 running iOS 11.1.2

Everything now seems to be working as it should. Both from iOS and MacOS. I’m still on iOS 11.2 so I’m wondering if there was an (automatic) ATV update installed. I can’t say for sure as I don’t know what version I was using previously but things do seem “right”, at least with my setup.

As above, it’s a network issue. This can come at any time. There is a difference between streaming content directly and mirroring. You will need to troubleshoot.

Not the same issue as the OP, and you would need to turn off auto lock to prevent that

Issues can come at any time and you need to do proper troubleshooting. It's working just fine on all my devices and for the majority.

No such widespread issue, and another device working doesn't rule out the network. There is nothing for them to fix. Again, you need to do proper troubleshooting

My cable and internet provider is Comcast, by the way, and my wi-fi router is theirs. Are others experiencing this issue similarly situated?