iPhone not finding iPad for Airplay

[jjudson]

For some reason, my iPhone doesn’t show up as a selection on my iPad Pro to Airplay to that device (or vice versa). Everything else shows up — MacBook, other TVs, etc. Both are set up identically and are on the same network. Both are running iOS 17.

Any thoughts?

 

[StumpyBloke]

Are they even meant to? Don’t recall mine ever showing.

 

[hg.wells]

Yeah I don’t think you can, never seen my iPad or iPhone show up as an AirPlay device.

 

[JSBRGX]

No, it is not possible to AirPlay from iPhone to iPad (or vice versa) You can AirPlay from your iPhone/iPad to a Mac, and an Apple TV, or a smart TV with Airplay function.

 

[kvozel]

What they said...

 

[MacCheetah3]

I’ve seen my iPad appear as an AirPlay option on other iDevices, and did a small attempt to try it. I recall there being an alert something along the lines of “Make sure your iPad is plugged in.” Disappointingly, even when I connected my iPad to power, the feature still didn’t seem to function.

Unfortunately, I’m not able to find a lot of mention of such a feature:

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However, the following could indicate it wasn’t ready for primetime — maybe:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ipados-17-2-beta-airplay-receiver-setting.2409099/