Most airplay speakers won't populate in iOS 17

Ever since a recent iOS 17 update (between iOS 17.1-17.3) the Airplay list on my iPhone refuses to populate all of my Airplay compatible speakers or mirroring devices. This has become increasingly frustrating as it has made all of my Airplay speakers completely useless.


The ONLY way to fix this is to restart my phone. I have had an iPhone since the iPhone 3G...never in my life have I had to restart this brick so much. This is ridiculous. After a restart, the Airplay list becomes useless again within 6-12 hours. By then it will find 1-2 devices only. If left alone it will sometimes find one more. The other 5-6 Airplay speakers or, yes, even Apple TVs I have never reappear until a full system restart.


It's not a network issue. Nothing has changed on my network. I have restarted all of my speakers and network equipment. In fact, I can literally open up the Sonos app and through Sonos stream to the SAME speakers Airplay cannot locate so it likely is not a networking issue. I have restarted all of the speakers and all of my Apple TVs. My primary Apple TV is set as my Home Hub and I have also toggled this on and off to no effect.

iPhone 15 Pro

Posted on Mar 18, 2024 05:33 PM

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Mar 18, 2024 06:04 PM in response to Reydemia

I’m waiting for your answer; just having a VPN profile can corrupt the network settings, so it is a likely suspect.


One important fact is that when you install VPN it configures itself to the specific hardware, iOS version and network that the phone uses. If any of those change it can break the VPN. So any time you change any of these you may need to delete the VPN app and profile, restart your phone then add them back (if you still want to use VPN) so it can configure itself to the new environment. But test before adding it back.

Apr 3, 2024 06:53 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

I did not reinstall VPN as I have no need for it right now.


I will say this issue has persisted just in a different form now. I do still regularly have instances where my Airplay speakers are not populating. After a bit of toggling they sometimes show up and do usually show up if I restart the airplay device. I no longer have to restart my iPhone like I used to which is nice, but I regularly cannot make use of Airplay without 15+ minutes of haggling still.

May 15, 2024 07:37 PM in response to Reydemia

I believe I FINALLY got to the bottom of this one. After a lot of digging and trial an error I came across a thread that suggested turning on a `Group Rekey Interval` in my networks AP settings. My system defaults `Group Rekey Interval` to `3600` seconds. I do not know what changed that required this, but with on my airplay speakers have nearly all been available any time I need them for the past 3 weeks with very little issues if any.

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Most airplay speakers won't populate in iOS 17

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