Some users have reported an issue in which the AirPlay icon (for streaming music and video to AirPort Express base stations and Apple TVs) is suddenly missing from various apps on iPod touch, iPad or iPhone.
There’s a simple fix for this issue, as follows:
On your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, navigate to Settings > General > International > Language and change to a different language (e.g. if you are using English, switch to French). The device will go through a language switch/reset process, and your AirPlay icon should be restored.
Next navigate back to Settings > General > International > Language (translated into the new language, of course) and switch back to your original language.
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January 4, 2011 at 5:06 PM
Great fix… Thanks…. Really seems a strange problem and
fix!!!
January 5, 2011 at 9:40 AM
Didn’t work for me, also the icon is missing in iTunes as
well.
January 5, 2011 at 9:40 AM
Didn’t work for me, also the icon is missing in iTunes as
well.
February 26, 2012 at 10:32 AM
I am having the same problem no air play icon in itunes or ipod if you get a fix let me know
January 10, 2011 at 12:33 PM
After latest update i got airplay after sync icon gone then
came back now gone again after latest sync £100 wasted on Apple
tv.
January 11, 2011 at 4:38 PM
Thanks for the info. This was driving me crazy and there
was nothing on the Apple site that I could find.
February 5, 2011 at 1:16 PM
great fix, and so easy! thanks
February 12, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Fantastic. Worked for me. I lost the airplay after pairing with a Bluetooth speaker. Hmm. I’d been torturing my iPad and my poor brain trying to get my “real” speakers back. Thanks so much!
February 13, 2011 at 9:42 AM
one more note, good idea to change it to language you can at least semi-understand in order to navigate back again. Also, I noticed that my safari “search” was the charming “recherché” even after I had swapped the international setting back to english. I had to delete the french keyboard that had been created in the iPad settings.
March 3, 2011 at 5:45 PM
Absolutely goofy thing to have to work around…
Thanks so much for the fix! Your iQuirk-Fu is awesome.
June 17, 2011 at 7:49 AM
Thanks for the easy fix!
July 9, 2011 at 12:37 PM
just a reminder to make sure your wifi is on :-O
sounds obvious ya. but, i just got two iphones for my wife and myself. unbeknownst to me my wife turned off her wifi because it kept autoconnecting at her office (ya, i know you can disable that but she didnt)…and, she didnt want the IT guys watching her traffic.
fast forward home and i can’t figure out why my airplay works fine and hers doesnt.
had to soft-reboot the phone after turning on wifi and it works fine.
October 25, 2011 at 2:19 AM
Did not work for me. iPod Touch. Extremely bothersome.
October 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM
David..our Ipods were not working as well. Updated both Apple TV and Ipods today. There is now a section on Apply TV under setting once you do this, and airplay has to be turned on for the icon on the Touch to work. Try this?
November 6, 2011 at 2:42 AM
It works also for me. ipad 2, everywhere the Icon but after update I think missing on my Ipad2. Changing the language to English and back to netherlands has fixed the problem. Thanks verry much.
November 12, 2011 at 7:05 AM
It works!! Thank you!
January 14, 2012 at 10:27 PM
It didn’t work for my iPad2.
February 11, 2012 at 1:28 AM
All the above did not work for my iPad 2 .
The real fix came when I switched of my Internet modem and router.
On again and all is good again.
AirPlay shows again
February 11, 2012 at 1:30 AM
The real fix came when I switched of my Internet modem and router.
On again and all is good again.
AirPlay shows again
February 24, 2012 at 11:47 AM
I changed to French, won’t change back to English. NOW what do I do?
I’ve had nothing but trouble with this IPad. Every day I have to fix something.
PLEASE HELP. I don’t read French !!!! HELP …
March 10, 2012 at 2:28 PM
Still did not work for my ipad2 and still looking
March 16, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Newest iPad. No AirPlay icon. This fix did not work. Further research has not resulted in a solution. Steve passes away, and apple falls apart.. Frustrating.
April 26, 2012 at 4:41 PM
yea i have the new ipad too and it still doesnt work. icon is no where to be found. so frustrating…..