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AirPlay
Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 20 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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TV AirPlay works one try in five and takes about a minuteUnreviewed
20112026- AirPlay screen extension randomly disconnects minutes after connecting2026-10-21
- AirPlay to TV now works only once in five tries and takes about a minute2026-03-17
- AirPlay is unreliable enough that the user switches to Chromecast instead2022-07-20
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 20 complaints
- AirPlay screen extension randomly disconnects minutes after connecting2026-10-21
- Similar-looking apps for mirroring Mac to iPad are hard to tell apart and search2026-10-16
- Mirroring sometimes shows a blank or blocked screen depending on the app, despite claiming to mirror2026-08-17
- Often fails to work, picks wrong language track, needs fiddly setup, and stops streaming when browsing2026-05-27
- AirPlay to TV now works only once in five tries and takes about a minute2026-03-17
- Playing on Mac doesn't ask which device or stop iPhone playback, just shows a warning2025-05-08
- Adding several speakers drops others out, forcing repeated re-adding; takes about a minute2025-01-13
- Target list order changes unpredictably, sometimes reverting to alphabetical2024-08-05
- Device list reshuffles while choosing, so user loses track of which device they picked2023-08-17
- AirPlay is unreliable enough that the user switches to Chromecast instead2022-07-20
- AirPlay icon shows error and only works after rebooting both devices2021-10-26
- Device list re-sorts asynchronously, so users click the wrong receiver2021-03-23
- Nearby Apple TVs from other networks show in the AirPlay menu with no way to remove them2020-11-18
- Video waits about two seconds after pressing Play to sync with audio2020-06-21
- Can't route only music through AirPlay; all audio goes to it, causing two-second delay in other apps2018-03-13
- Can't use the Apple TV remote to pause or play AirPlayed video2018-01-23
- AirPlay mirroring from MacBook Air is always laggy2014-02-04
- Lag makes simple actions like changing slides or pages unbearable2013-10-22
- AirPlay game streaming to TV is unusable due to lag2012-10-28
- Hard to get working and stops working for no apparent reason2011-04-14