How to airplay from mac to two devices update#

The expected result was both Apple TV's should stop playing with the music resuming only on the AirPlay speaker as it's not AirPlay 2 compatible. While using AirPlay 2 we selected an original AirPlay speaker. Of course, being a Beta it's not without expected issues. Not sure how useful this is but it could be more relevant to AirPlay 2 dedicated speakers such as the HomePod. We also noticed within the iOS Home app, we could pause and resume the music on the Apple TV's by touching the named Apple TV. We could now control and stream our music from one Apple TV to the other. Much improved was the ability to control AirPlay 2 through the Apple TV's themselves without using our iPad Air 2. We briefly saw this in Beta 1, but it appeared inconsistently - in Beta 2 we didn't see this option at all. It would be preferable to see the separate volume controls for each source. This time we had only a single volume control for both sources meaning that we had to move from room to room to balance the initial volume. Using AirPlay 2 to stream to both Apple TV's seemed slightly faster when making the initial connection.

We updated our iPad Air 2, 4th and 5th Generation Apple TV's and revisited. However, it was wrapped in some of the usual Beta bugs. In our first look, we praised AirPlay 2's ability to stream to two devices with no drop-outs while maintaining quality. Updated 8th Feb '18 Apple released iOS 11.3 & tvOS 11.3 Beta 2 this week, so we revisited AirPlay 2 to see how it's coming along.

How to airplay from mac to two devices update#

We're unsure at this juncture if AirPlay 2 will make it into the iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3 releases, we'll update this feature once we know more. Updated 21st Feb '18 Apple released iOS 11.3 & tvOS 11.3 Beta 3 this week - and AirPlay 2 has been removed.