Airplay not working on either AppleTV or Roku with some iPhones and iPads

Airplay not working on either AppleTV or Roku with some iPhones and iPads. It works with my iPhone 14+ but not with my wife's iPhone 14pro. Doesn't work with either AppleTV or Roku, so I want to fault the iPhone. Google search is useless. It only suggests the obvious. It is working with one iPhone, so all of the obvious things to check are not the source of the problem. With the 14pro, when airplaying a video, the TV screen appears to be trying to play music for a second and then the music icon disappears from the screen. (On AppleTV. Roku has different symptoms.) The video does not play. Also, the video hangs up on the iPhone—the pause and play buttons do nothing. You have to close the video and start over. Resetting AppleTV, resetting Roku, resetting the wi-fi, resetting bluetooth, have no effect. I'm wasting my life troubleshooting this. If it was my iPhone I would smash it with a hammer. But it's my wife's so I can't do that.

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Posted on Mar 10, 2023 08:31 AM

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Posted on Mar 10, 2023 10:00 AM

Update. My wife found that if she airplays music first to the TV and then opens a YouTube video, it will airplay the YouTube video. This trick worked on both her iPhone and iPad. This is something that Grady Booch calls "stupid knowledge". It is something you need to know to make technology work, but it is something you shouldn't need to know. My experience with the computer at work, is that it requires a lot of stupid knowledge to make Microsoft products work, but I don't expect that from Apple.

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