Apple TV Failed Activation

Same problem here with any restored 3rd gen Apple Tv's. I opened a case with support and they said they are aware of the problem and do not have a fix at this time. I also have my Apple SE monitoring this case for me.

Jeremy

I called Apple support and we are not alone. Many of these gen3 appletvs are doing this. I reset mine not restored it and I got the same result. They took the information on both my appletvs and are pushing it up to the research folks. He told me it would be 4 days for a call back. There is nothing we can do to resolve it. I expect there will be a 7.2.3 update or something.

i hope the apple will resolve this issue. I tried everyting but the result always same.. Activation failed, failed, failed.. Restore, restore, restore the settings only or rename my wi-fi, configuring the router, changing the password, region, language everyting.. i spend lot of time to figure out what is happening here, but i failed like this fricking activation.😟

I'll add my name to growing list. Just purchased an Apple TV 3 from family and figured I'd do a RESTORE... and unable to connect with Screen Mirroring. Also noticed Activation FAILED so thinking that is the culprit. Tried a few things (wasting time, of course), but nothing helped. Hope the figure out a fix soon as I wished to try a few more things.

Reset my Apple TV 3 for use at work. The only thing they want it for is Airplay, the only thing not working is Airplay! Wasted far too much time trying to get this working but suspected an issue at Apples end as the activating part goes quite quickly and if you're really having issues activating an Apple TV it usually sits on that part for about 10 minutes before telling you it couldn't connect (had issue with our work firewall years ago).

I can confirm that we have 5 of these all doing the same thing in a Corporate environment.

It smells of... "No we don't slow down your phone, you probably just need a new one...." Yes, the $29 dollar battery program fixed all my old phones back to normal speeds.....

The 3 newest generations I have all work 100% perfectly, side note.

I'm not replacing all my Apple TV's, if they do get replaced it will be with non-Apple products.

Does anyone have an idea if this is a new issue or are we just all having issues now because we've all reset or restored our's recently? I can't tell if this is something that has gone wrong on Apple's end(activation server) or on our end. It's rare I can't google and find someone who has found a solution for something like this. All I can find is a few people who say it's a router/port issue but I opened a ton of ports to no avail.

Just scratching my head!

I have the same problem:

AirPlay doesn’t work, iPhone 6s (iOS 10.3.2) and iPad Air 2 (iOS 11.2.6) are not able to connect to Apple TV 3. gen (A1469, software 7.2.2).

Neither a reset nor a restore solved the problem. Actually I think this issue started with a reset, because the Apple TV worked fine until I did the reset this week.

I hope there will be solution soon.

crazyrugge

Same here I’ve even tried activating it though my 3rd party apps, no luck. It seems to me there’s a problem when the Apple TV tries to contact the activation server. I guess we’ll have to wait and see

I'm having the same issue as everybody else here. On top, I realised, that the setup via iPhone touch is no longer working. I'm wondering whether these two issues are related?

Could one of you please try, whether with his ATV3 the setup by touching with iPhone is still working?

Thanks,

Steffen

Thank god I found this thread! I’ve been going crazy the past few days. I’ve re set all my devices now 3 times each! Well now we all know it’s an Apple problem and hopefully we will get some answers soon. Post updates

PLEASE and Thank you!

Scott

I had a similar problem: After a reset the configuration over Bluetooth/WiFi with iPhone or iPad didn't work. Try a full restore of Apple TV, this should help.

(This is no solution for the activation/airPlay problem - at the moment)

best regards

crazyrugge

I am having the same problem after restoring my Apple TV 3rd gen. I rang Apple for help on this after a long phone call they finally found out it is because the activiatob failing. He said that the engineers know about the problem and are trying to fix the situation, and there will be an update to sort it out. The only thing is he said it could be a few weeks or months! I really hope that is not the case!

The Mess started from the last IOS-update; streaming went slow, reloading the Appletv and then activating failed. Now Appletv is useless. It’s not acceptable that Apple is not able to fix so tiny basic function within hours, now it has taken more than a week.