Hello,
I have a hard time to set up "Home Share" feature in Ventura OS. My another Mac, which still has Monterey OS, can be configured "Home Share" successfully.
Apple's insturction does not work in Ventura OS from other friends as well.
Please share any workaround if you already know.
iMac
The activation of Home Share is not even working from Ventura OS. I toggled “ON” on media sharing and it required to sign in my Apple ID, but it stuck on there.
This article:
Use Home Sharing to share media from a computer to other devices - Apple Support
States the following:
Which implies that different versions of macOS / iOS / iPadOS / tvOS won't be compatible with media sharing. So it may be the reason why Monterey and Ventura do not work well together with Home Sharing.
For me it was because the Ventura systems where not Authorised. See https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201251?&cid=acs::fm-itunes_HT201251 for how to Authorise them. Then turn Media Sharing on and off again.
In System Settings -> Users & Groups, create a new user account. Sign-in to your iCloud account. Turn on Media Sharing. If that works then your user profile is corrupted. There's a million little configurations in your /Users/<username>/Library folder tree and something is broken. Since it's iCloud based it could be extremely complex to resolve. You can try contacting Apple Support directly for assistance in fixing it. But migrating your data without the Library files will fix the issue, it's just tedious and time consuming, etc.
No, there's something borken.
I have 3 Macs. 2 running Ventura and 1 running Mojave. All 3 have Home Sharing enabled using the same Apple ID (The Ventura ones have it enabled via System Settings, the Mojave one has it enabled via iTunes).
The library from the Mojave system appears in home sharing on my iPhone, my iPad and my apple TV.
The libraries from the Ventura systems do not appear on any devices.
Ventrua 13.1
Mojave 10.14.6
iOS 16.3
iPadOS 16.2
tvOS 16.3.1
This reply isn't helpful. I have been an Apple user for over 15y and Ventura won't even show home sharing as an option. Nothing in "General>Settings>Music>turn on home sharing. Opened iTunes/Music and no longer is there a menu option to share my library on or with any device, and that, checking from both sides of the equation.
Similiar issue here. Login seems to work, but the log in window stays active until quitting System Settings. Apple TV is only able to connect to Mac (Ventura 13.2 and now 13.3) intermittently. Turning Media sharing on and off use to fix the issue reliably, but not any more.
Authorising and turning Media sharing on and off again fixed it for me. Thanks mate.
The settings aren't in the iTunes/music app in Ventura. Instead, they're under system settings.
Ventura OS Home Share Issue
