IPad Airplay Issue - iOS 8

I work for a K-12 school district. Teachers often use airplay and the app AirServer on our macs to mirror their iPad on their mac. This has worked great, until iOS 8. On iPads with iOS 8+, when you click on the airplay button in Control Center, the menu does not expand beyond showing "iPad" and the first airplay device (see image). This is an issue because oftentimes we have SO many computers available to connect to, they are switching in and out so fast you cannot find the one you need. On iOS 7, this menu expands, as it should, and displays a long list of available devices. I have tried hard resets, resetting network settings, installing a fresh copy of iOS 8.1, updating to iOS 8.1.1 (we have a developer account), and even tried it on an iPad 4, with the same results. I have googled this and cannot find anyone with the same issue, is this an iOS 8 bug or is this just isolated to us?

I work for a school district using 2100 iPads and we're also having this issue with Airplay problems since iOS 8.
I spoke with someone at Apple and this is something they are working on fixing. Most likely it'll be atleast a couple of weeks.
We've been giving teachers Lightning to VGA adapters so they can hard wire and avoid the issues. Super inconvenient though.
Hope this helps you - its not your issue.

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Anyone got any suggestions, as i'm ready to throw in the towel?
Thanks
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First, before you lose interest - I have a solution that works so well to get BT Home Hub 3 working with 'Airplay' and Apple TV and my iPad 4, that I am so far unable to 'break' it. Please do try to break it yourself, and could you report back here or mark it with stars or whatever so I know what happened in someone else's setup?
I appreciate what you are going through, all I wanted to do was get 'Real Racing 3' running for me and the kidz on the TV that is attached to Apple TV box. Sometimes the Airplay icon appeared, sometimes not, it was chance - really frustrating.
The nub of it is this - you 'reserve' certain aspects of how the HH3 services the wifi network, so it directs data/communications via these 'reserved' ports specifically assigning them to the purpose you need - in this case, 'stuff' (technical eh?) going to the Apple TV so that Airplay works.
Apple forums somewhere list these publicised ports, and you go into HH3 management (tap in the IP address of the hub in 'safari' to get there, then put in your password for admin - it is 'admin' if you didn't change it already). In short, you use one of the games/applications that already are in the list for 'Port Forwarding', and I modified the name of a new one I made to make it like 'Airplay attempt using BT alarm' or something, because I 'copied' the BT safe alarm app details to start my custom one off. Lost yet?! Go into the HH3 manager, go to the A-Z I think it might be in 'advanced' and get 'Port Forwarding' up.
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There are only 2 bits to set - you hit the button on screen in HH3 manager, to 'add entry', then select in the box marked 'protocol' that you want TCP or UDP according to the info I dug up from Apple site below - don't worry it is not complex to do you are just editing a couple of figures on a thing you don't use. Incidentally, I left the first two entries as they were (1024 was in there already) because I am just timid! So set it as below.
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TCP 443 443
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That's the basics of what I did - I have since restarted the BT HOMEHUB 3 several times, the Ipad 4 several times, the Apple TV has updated its software and has been restarted twice. STILL AIRPLAY WORKS.
So, I am reassuringly presented with the Airplay icon whenever I 'upswipe' on my ipad from the bottom of the screen - iOS 7.1 is on my ipad obviously, but that did not change the hit-and-miss of the Airplay icon until I made these mods to the HH3.
Over to you - try and break my solution please, and let me know if it works for you as well, or not. All I know is, Real Racing 3 can reliably be brought to bear on the Apple TV thing, and the Airplay icon is now never missing.
One more point - I think I also set the Apple TV IP address to be static - my ipad has had this situation for some time, along with the 'lease' set to a couple of weeks or something, so it does not try to select a different channel for wifi frequently? PLUS, I set something in the ipad I think, long ago (did not affect this issue as far as I can see), so that when the ipad 'wakes up' it does not decide to search for a better channel or IP address or something - that caused loads of glitches it seemed, then I found out my BT HH3 was on the end of dodgy phone cable not hi-quality shielded...but hey, that's a different bucket of bolts.
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