Airplay is broken

I have an iMac, macbook air (mid 2013), iphone 5 and just bought ipad air 2. They are running OSX yosemite and ios 8.1 respectively. I just cannot find the airplay button on the ios devices or the mac. They are all on the same network. My Denon receiver and apple TV (second generation) are all airplay enabled. I have rebooted all devices ad nauseum. On ios 7 you could find the airplay button on the control panel or the app. IOS 8 and yosemite releases are the worst in apple history as far as I am concerned. The UIs are unlike apple. Everything is so complicated. Apple is becoming like microsoft: they keep piling new functionalities without regards to simplicity!
Can someone please help me find the airplay button if there is one.

If your Time Capsule is connected to the router and is set in Bridge Mode, your router is still responsible for providing settings (even that you have 2 networks).
Turn off all of your network deviecs, computers and iOS devices.
Turn on router first (for testing purposes, use only router), then turn on your apple tv and connect it to your router's network. Next, turn on iPad or iPhone and also connect this device to your router's network and try to use airplay mirroring. If it's working ok, then connect your Time Capsule to your router and change network on your Apple TV and iOS device and test it again:Make sure that both devices - Apple TV and iOS device - are connected to the same network.
Other step that you can try is to use personal hotspot on your iPhone and create for testing purposes iphone network and connect your Apple TV to it and test airplay mirroring. If it's working ok, then problem is with your network setup.
Answer to your question: no, Apple did not break anything - Airplay and Airplay Mirroring is still working fine. Problem is somewhere with your setup.

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Suddenly I can't get airplay to work anymore to my Apple TV or to my AirPort Express from any of these computer/devices. No AirPlay icon at all at all.
Also to my Pioneer speaker ... It dropped out at the same time, and I can't stream to it either.
I have checked and all devices are discoverable on the network.
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It used to just work for everything. Did Apple break something?
Where do I start to trouble shoot? I have googled etc. but most answers are for older OS's, not for the latest.
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Turn off all of your network deviecs, computers and iOS devices.
Turn on router first (for testing purposes, use only router), then turn on your apple tv and connect it to your router's network. Next, turn on iPad or iPhone and also connect this device to your router's network and try to use airplay mirroring. If it's working ok, then connect your Time Capsule to your router and change network on your Apple TV and iOS device and test it again:Make sure that both devices - Apple TV and iOS device - are connected to the same network.
Other step that you can try is to use personal hotspot on your iPhone and create for testing purposes iphone network and connect your Apple TV to it and test airplay mirroring. If it's working ok, then problem is with your network setup.
Answer to your question: no, Apple did not break anything - Airplay and Airplay Mirroring is still working fine. Problem is somewhere with your setup.

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Well I first tried responding via my iPad , foolish me as my IOS products don't work on Apple forums most of the time so now I'm on my iPhone instead so I can atleast type this. Its always amazed me the lack of IOS friendlyness at the Apple forums.
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glad yours works then likely we've all got $1000.00 partial paperweights that I can atleast replace.
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Old days was hit airplay look for clip and hit play. Way better.

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