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[Solved] AirPlay 2 Not Working on iPhone X/8/7 In All Cases

Written by Kaylee Wood | Last update: April 28, 2020

The complexity of AirPlay 2 multi-room capability also provokes more AirPlay 2 not working cases than its 1st-gen protocol. If you’re one of the users irritated by AirPlay 2 not working iOS 11.4, or fails to upgrade the old speaker to be compatible with Apple AirPlay 2, take a look at the catalogue to address your problem.

Table of Contents:
What is Apple AirPlay 2?
AirPlay 2 Not Working [Solved]:
- [Solved] Apple Music AirPlay 2 Not Working
- [Solved] AirPlay 2 Multiroon Not Working
- [Solved] AirPlay 2 Won’t Add Songs to Playlist
- [Solved] AirPlay 2 Won’t Send A New Song to Another Speaker
- [Solved] AirPlay 2 Icon Not Found in Spotify
- Upgrading to AirPlay 2 Not Working [Solved]
- Apple TV AirPlay 2 Not Working [Solved]

AirPlay 2 Not Working [Solved]

- [Solved] AirPlay 2 Not Working with Apple Music - Software Errors AirPlay 2

The brand-new design of iOS 11’s control center somewhat points out deeper integration of Apple Music and AirPlay: There are 2 workarounds to enable AirPlay 2 on iPhone 8. First off, you may find the AirPlay icon in the bottom-center of an Apple Music playback menu page, tap on it to choose the AirPlay receiver, and you’re good to go & play music to an AirPlay 2-compatible speaker – however – should the AirPlay icon disappears/turns grey on the menu page, chances are that Apple Music is not working with AirPlay 2. To solve this problem, you need to:

Make sure AirPlay 2 is turned on for Apple Music
Step 1. Swipe up from the bottom of iPhone to get the control center, tap on upper-right AirPlay icon on the Music block on the upper-right corner of the whole control center > disconnect the AirPlay 2 speaker you’re currently connected to > reconnect it. Launch AirPlay 2 for Apple Music Again

Launch AirPlay 2 for Apple Music Again
Step 2: If step 1 doesn’t help you out from AirPlay 2 not working with Apple Music, double-tap the home-button > exit Apple Music > launch the APP again to give AirPlay 2 another spin.

Step 3: Getting through step 1 & 2, still unable to fix AirPlay 2 not working with Apple Music? Now please check through your Wi-Fi connect by: 1) make sure the speaker and your iPhone 8 are connected to the same Wi-Fi. 2) Disconnect iPhone 8 from Wi-Fi & re-connect it.

- [Solved] AirPlay 2 Multiroon Not Working

Apple’s HomePod stereo pairs are now backed by iOS 11.4 system-wide multiroom audio system. Although it increased the flexibility of playing music from one room to another, or wirelessly streaming music everywhere using AirPlay 2, the switch between different AirPlay 2 speakers often causes AirPlay 2 multiroom not working problems. To fix such problems, you’ll need to first turn-off and then turn-on the HomePod stereo pairs switch.

- [Solved] AirPlay 2 Not Working with Spotify - Software Errors AirPlay 2

Spotify is the second music streaming service reaping full advantage of Apple’s AirPlay 2, with an in-APP AirPlay 2 icon and a lock-screen AirPlay icon for users to enable the 2nd-gen wireless streaming service likewise. If you run into AirPlay 2 not working with Spotify, follow the troubleshooting steps that you do for Apple Music AirPlay 2 errors likewise.

- [Solved] AirPlay 2 Won’t Add Songs to Playlist - Software Errors AirPlay 2

The 2017’s protocol upgrade makes iPhone an ideal media console for customized media library editing - use one iPhone 8 as the AirPlay sender and you’re good to play with AirPlay 2 multi-room playback. However, when a guest asks for songs on his/her iPhone 8 be played to the speakers as well, he’ll instantly find AirPlay 2 won’t add songs to playlist, in that this protocol recognized one AirPlay sender (aka one iPhone) as the source of streaming music for one connection. That been said, AirPlay 2 won’t add songs to playlist is an inborn feature of this new proprietary protocol – there’re not direct fixes but indeed a workaround to add songs to the playlist on the AirPlay sender:

**Step 1.**Enable AirDrop on bother the sender iPhone and the iPhone used as AirPlay sender.

Step 2: Open the Apple Music APP > music profile > “…” > Share Song > Choose AirDrop, and then the name of the receiver iPhone.

**Step 3:**When the music file is received, add it to the playlist to be played on the speaker.

- [Solved] AirPlay 2 Won’t Send A New Song to Another Speaker

The very tagline feature for this 2nd-gen streaming protocol is AirPlay 2 multiroom functionality – which enables you to not only play music files to both the speaker in the living room and the one in your bedroom from the comfort of your heart – using the iPhone 8 only, it has made the remote volume control available.

However, the rumored functions of different songs to different speakers is not even an AirPlay 2 not working issue, instead, the function hasn’t yet arrived on iOS 11 AirPlay 2.

- Upgrading to AirPlay 2 Not Working [Solved]

Quite a number of wireless speaker manufacturers such as Naim, Libratone offer the overture that the brand-new Apple AirPlay 2 is going to land on the earlier version of their speakers with a software update. Here’s how you can solve problems in the process of upgrading to AirPlay 2 not working, for which we take Libratone’s ZIPP/ZIPP MINI as examples to illustrate.

- Apple TV AirPlay 2 Not Working [Solved] - Hardware Errors AirPlay 2

With AirPlay 2 landing on Apple TV, Apple TV AirPlay 2 not working is more a sender-side error that could be addressed by:

Step 1: Make sure that Apple TV and the AirPlay speaker you intend to AirPlay 2 to are connected to the same Wi-Fi.

Step 2: Disconnect & reconnect Apple TV to Wi-Fi

Step 3: Rebooting Apple TV (tvOS 11) & the AirPlay speaker.

What is Apple AirPlay 2?

Slated in this November together with iOS 11, Apple’s AirPlay 2 greets its customers with iOS-based control over multiple speakers with iOS 11.4, a MacBook-only function in the past (requires iTunes assistance), as well as other over-the-air features such as iOS 11 screen recording (an amazing features with greenhand bugs that might lead to iOS 11 screen recording not working ).

Given the fact that this version of the wireless protocol involves more complicated functions than its predecessor, AirPlay 2 not working requires new ways to solve then each, depending on where the problem occurs, what music service you’re playing with Apple AirPlay 2, and whose AirPlay receiver is connected.

Back in 2010 when pristine AirPlay first found its way on Mac in September, and in iPhone and iPad in November, it enables users to stream videos and music from Mac to Apple TV, with the airplay iPhone to Mac and airplay iPhone to PC functions realized later by 3rd-party software like 5KPlayer, this protocol will live hand in hand with AirPlay 2 – with different entrances from iPhone 8 (iOS 11).