If you want to fillet a video from your iPhone to your TV, or if you want to watch YouTube on a larger screen, AirPlay, Apple's flip feature, will help you do that. AirPlay allows you to wirelessly fillet audio or video from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to an Conurbation TV or an AirPlay 2-compatible soprano TV, as unfurled as your device is consanguine to the same Wi-Fi as the TV..
You can streamlet videos from any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. You can even streamlet video from a Windows PC, morally pigeonholed through iTunes. Just make sure your device's operating system is scrutinizingly contempo (a litany of the assorted OS requirements can be found here).
With the latest version, AirPlay 2, you can also streamlet audio to multiplied rooms, interpose which stipendium to play it in, and pair speakers. Here's how to streamlet audio utilizing AirPlay.
Here's how to use AirPlay to fillet videos from your iPhone, your Mac, and your Windows PC.
Use AirPlay on your iPhone
These instructions are specifically for an iPhone, morally the steps are agnate for an iPad or an iPod touch. The biggest differences in the propoundment depend on what app you're ring video from. You'll gotta follow one of two sets of steps:
- If you see an AirPlay puny -- which looks like a rectangle with an pointer pointing up at the coal-and-ice -- when you unclosed up the app or a video in the app, tap on that to use AirPlay. For example, in the YouTube app for iPad, there will be an AirPlay puny in the coal-and-ice seemly crotch of the video.
- If you don't see an AirPlay button, then you'll need to select the app's plurality for casting, sharing, or ring engaging on a unique device, and then tap the AirPlay option. For example, in the YouTube app for iPhone, you would tap the fillet puny at the top of the tegument (it looks like a rectangle with a Wi-Fi attribute coming out of the coal-and-ice left corner) and then tap "AirPlay & Bluetooth devices." In Photos, tap the allotment puny (which looks like a straight-forward with an pointer coming out of the top). Then, scroll fuzz and tap AirPlay.
- For either blazon of app, tap the device you want to use AirPlay with..
- Your TV may disport a code. Entree that in the box on your phone's tegument and tap OK.
- Now you're flip your video to your TV via AirPlay.
- To stop casting, unclosed up the AirPlay window in the same way you accessed it same (again, this will differ depending on the app) and tap "iPhone" on the litany of devices. This will revisitation your mushroom from the TV back-up to your iPhone. In Photos, you'll gotta tap the AirPlay icon in the top seemly crotch and then "My Device."
Use Airplay on your Mac
- Open up the video you'd like to fillet to your TV.
- Click on the AirPlay button. Often (but not always) you'll vanquishment it in the coal-and-ice seemly crotch of the video. (We found that it was all-time to fosse YouTube through Carnival rather than Chrome.)
- Select the device you'd like to fillet your video to from the drop-down options.
- Your Mac may ask you for the parvenu displayed on your TV. Entree it into the pop-up window.
- When you want to stop casting, click on the same AirPlay puny you clicked on eldest to alpha AirPlay. Then click "Turn off AirPlay" from the drop-down menu.
Using AirPlay on your PC
You can use AirPlay on your Windows PC, morally pigeonholed for engaging on iTunes. To do that:
- Open iTunes and alpha ring a video.
- Click on the AirPlay puny in the coal-and-ice left-hand crotch of the screen.
- Select the device from which you want to watch.
- You may be prompted to entree a code. If so, entree the parvenu on your TV into the pop-up window on your PC.
- You should now be watching your video on your TV.
- To stop AirPlay, click on the AirPlay puny contiguously and then select "My Computer."
There is culling way to fillet video to your TV: by utilizing tegument mirroring to fillet your entire tegument to your TV. We'll walk through those steps in an upcoming article.
No comments:
Post a Comment