Launch the System Preferences of your Mac and open Displays.The first step in the process to Stream using the AirPlay is to show the AirPlay icon (if not shown) on the Menu bar of your Mac and you can achieve the same by following the undermentioned steps: Show the AirPlay Icon on the Menu Bar of Mac You can AirPlay to stream the entire screen (technically, it will be called mirroring) or just an application’s display. To use the AirPlay feature, the originating device must be an Apple device but the displaying or receiving devices can be an Apple device or an AirPlay-compatible 3 rd party device (like a Samsung TV). AirPlay feature is quite handy while giving presentations or sharing content on a large display. How To Turn on And Use Airplay on MacĪirPlay is the successor of Air Tunes that only supported audio and the current version of AirPlay is 2.0 was released in 2018. AirPlay is an Apple-developed protocol to allow streaming, extending, or mirroring screens and transferring content like device screens, audio, video, photos, etc) between devices on the same local network.

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