What a happened to Home Sharing in IOS 6?

Why can't I find the home sharing option in the new IOS 6?

For Music - Settings>Music>Home Sharing and for Video - Settings>Videos>Home Sharing

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The following says iOS 4.3 or later. It also says the latest version of iTunes and that requires OS X 10.6.8 or later, but it might be worthwhile to try all of the troubleshooting steps anyway. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972

ITunes Home Sharing with iOS 4.3

I have a MacBook Pro, 1st and 2nd generation Apple TV, iPhone 3GS, and 3rd Generation iPod Touch (yeah, BIG fan of Apple!). When I bought the 2nd generation Apple TV I was able to setup Home Sharing on my MacBook Pro and the new Apple TV. According to Apple's website, with iOS 4.3, you can now share your entire iTunes library on any mobile device running iOS 4.3. On my iPhone 3GS, I went into settings and turned on Home Sharing. However, when I trying to get a video that is playing in iTunes on my MacBook Pro and get it to play on my iPhone 3GS, I am only seeing the option of either the computer or 2nd generation Apple TV.

Home Sharing is not a 'push' feature it is a 'pull' feature.
By that I mean that you cannot push content from iTunes to your mobile devices.
What you do is pull the content from iTunes onto the mobile device.
You are confusing AirPlay (which pushes content) with Home Sharing (which pulls content).
On the mobile device go into the iPod App and then into the ... (more menu) at the bottom, you should see the Shared option, pick this and it will allow you to select the iTunes library. You can then stream content from it (pull).

Home Sharing between iOS 4.3.1 and OSX 10.4.11

I can't get home sharing to work between my iPad1 running iOS 4.3.1 and my iMac
running OS X 10.4.11 and using iTunes 9.2. Home sharing is set up on my iMac and I can run Remote from my iPad. I've entered my Apple ID info in the iPod portion of Settings on the
iPad. But when I go to the iPod app on my iPad, when I tap on "Library" nothing
happens. I don't see my iMac iTunes library come up under "Shared Libraries".
As a matter of fact nothing at all happens or comes up when I tap on "Library".
Does Home Sharing work with iTunes 9? Do you need iTunes 10? And can you only
get iTunes 10 with OSX 10.5?

Wanted to add my .02 experience.
New iPad 2, iOs 4.3.1 (got it and did that yesterday).
One mac running 10.6.5, iTunes 10.2.1 - home share, and iPad2 Remote - works fine. Remote sees that home share immediately and it is working well.
One mac running 10.5.7, iTunes 10.2.2.... Remote cannot handle it. Not only do I not see the home share "share" on the iPad, but when I try do do the manual route of 'Add a Library', the errors are bizarre! It starts by taking a loooong time to spin and shows simply "Looking for" as the message on the iPad. Then it fails, and says "Not found". That's it! I don't think it is the router, as the 10.5 mac is on the same subnet though it is not wireless. I checked firewall stuff - it's not on. And since it works perfectly on the 10.6 mac, I know home sharing and the way I set things up works.
Stumped on this. Since I don't know if there are any logs to see on the iPad, I have no idea how to approach this one. But it clearly does not work with 10.5, at least for me.

Home sharing with iOS remote app stopped working

In my home, I have four macs (3 minis and an imac), each with their own iTunes media library, and 2 ATVs. Home Sharing is turned on, with the same ID on all of these devices. When I operate each device natively (using keyboard/mouse or ATV hard remote), I can see the music library on each of the other devices, and play that music. I also have an iPhone and an iPad, with the Remote app installed, and using the same Home Sharing ID. On each of these, I can see each of the macs and ATVs, and the music in their individual libraries, and can play that music on the device on which that library resides. So far, so good.
What I can't do, although I could do it several weeks ago, is use the remote app to access one device, and then play music from the shared library on another device. I can see the other devices' libraries, but when I select "music" within that device, it says "no songs". This is very curious, and like I said, it worked a few weeks ago.
Has anyone seen this issue, and do you know how to fix it?
Thanks.

Glen Verran wrote:
But this is where the problem starts. While I am using the remote app, I exit the app to do something else on the phone. I go back into the app, and the app attempts to connect to my iTunes library. It fails!!
I'm having this exact same problem. I was using the remote app with iTunes on my computer and speakers connected to my airport express for months with no issues at all. It worked flawlessly. But I got the new apple tv a few days ago and had to turn on home sharing as part of the setup...and then the problems began. I started having the exact issue described by the original post: the remote app will just randomly not be able to see my iTunes library. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it just sits there spinning for a while and eventually says it couldn't find my library. If I wait a few minutes it will eventually just start working again.
This is extremely annoying and is making me want to just return the apple tv and go back to my previous setup which worked perfectly. If Apple would at least acknowledge the problem and that a fix will be forthcoming, I would be satisfied.

HT4557 Music More Shared does not appear and the password has been set up properly on all devices. What is wrong with Home Sharing?

Really I can't believe how pathetic Apple products are at allowing people under the hood of certain settings or giving you some clue to what error messages mean. My password is entered properly on all devices I'm trying to use Home Sharing on, all check boxes are checked yet the iPad still cannot discover what is on the PC's iTunes list. I've tried everything in all of the forums on this site and nothing works, there is no Music>More>Sharing box that pops up. Also there is no Airplay button in my iTunes on my PC. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Question regarding Home Sharing in iOS 4.3

Does one have to enable sharing inside iTunes as well as turning on Home Sharing? Some of the how to's I have read say you need to check the boxes in iTunes Sharing while others just say to turn on Home Sharing in iTunes and in iPad iPod settings.Thanks

Demo wrote:
Philly_Phan wrote:
crh24 wrote:
Graig Kivell wrote:
There is another place in iTunes preferences where you can check off what you want to share under Sharing. It's these settings I'm wondering about.
Mine are unchecked in that location and Home Sharing works fine on my iPad 1.
Same here.
Mine were already set to share - I've probably had it set up that way for months and I thought it might help if it they were checked. Set up was flawless for me but when in doubt....
For the life of me, I'm unable to figure out just what the Prefs do.

Home Sharing to iOS suddenly not working

I have an iMac with a quite extensive library of both music and movies/TV Shows. I of course use Home Sharing to stream this library to my Apple TV2, first and foremost, mot also to my iPad on occasion.
That is until a few weeks ago. Whenever I try to access my shared library from the iPad it says that the library contains no videos and suggest that I buy some from iTunes Store. I can think of no particular thing that happened before this behaviour. It just suddenly stopped working. Home Sharing to my Apple TV and Macbook is still working as it should.
I've tried all typical solutions I can think of - disconnecting and reconnecting the Apple account on my iPad, disabling and re-enabling Home Sharing on my iMac, restarting devices, etc. I also tried restoring my iPad. I did however, not set it up as a new iPad, but restored a backup before trying to access Home Sharing again. My wireless network is distributed from a recently purchased Time Capsule.
Anyone else have this problem? Any solutions or suggestions out there?
Just to clarify, the iPad can see the library and apparently connects, but instead of listing any content it shows a black screen saying "No Videos".

Same exact thing has happened to my wife's iPad. It was working perfectly for her just last night. And my iPad continues to stream videos from the iMac perfectly, right next to hers. All software is up to date, rebooted both the iMac and the iPad, with no luck. This is very strange.

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Can I set up my iphone to display photos & videos with Apple TV?

Home sharing is for displaying contents from your computers iTunes library.
If you wish to view media from your iphone on ATV, use airplay
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4437

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What will happen if I downloaded the ios7 in my iPad mini? What will happen to my saved photo, data and otherdownloaded apps in ios6? Will all of that erased?

The advice to back up is good.
And one other thing. If you don't currently use a passcode to use your iPad, I really recommend you set one up before you update. Just make sure you either know what your currently use, or if you set one up, you write it down somewhere safe for future reference.

HT4623 what happened to home sharing after new update?

What happed to the ability to home share on the ipad to an Apple TV?

It's moved. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen and you'll see AirPlay on the control panel screen.

How can you found out what computers you are home sharing so you can delete some, How can you found out what computers you are home sharing so you can delete some

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Back to the topic at hand....
You really hit the nail on the head in so many ways. It really all does come down to one thing: hard work. There are no shortcuts. Always keep learning. Embrace every Eloqua challenge you can, and never say never. Never be fearful of being wrong by asking something 'silly', or 'looking stupid'. I remember several times that I've submitted Eloqua support tickets, or tickets to other related vendors about things that I was convinced were bugs/major issues. Turned out to be my mistake. But that's ok. You brush off, stand back up, and learn from them.
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Home Sharing Useless on iPhone 4

Once again, I'm taking time away from doing other things that I would prefer to be doing right now to lodge another complaint about iOS. Once upon a time, home sharing worked on the iPhone. It is no longer functional. I don't know which itteration of iOS or iTunes broke the chain (I'm using iOS 6 and iTunes 10) but like so many wonderful features Apple introduces to its customer base, it went from something spectacular to something not even worth using. My music library contains thousands of songs. I am the first to admit that it's a massive catalog and would be surprised to see any mobile device handle it with no hang ups. Yet, when Apple introduced home sharing via iOS, they demonstrated it was up to the task and it worked with few hiccups. Today, after numerous redesigns and updates to iTunes and iOS, my Time Capsule networked music library appears to be only good for playing through my Mac. I have gone full circle from being tethered to my Mac and syncing my iPhone packed with space limited smart playlists via a cable to enjoying smart playlists in their entirety streamed to my iPhone anywhere in the house to, once again, being tethered to my Mac and not even bothering to sync music to my phone anymore (with the acception of my workout mix, which is parked locally on my phone). Why did this happen? I have no idea. Where iPhone once managed to connect quickly to my Mac and stream music anytime and anywhere via my home network, it now hangs on initial attempts to connect and, when it manages to connect after numerous attempts, it sometimes appears to load a limited number of songs, artists, and albums available in my library. It also places songs in playlists that should not be there and disconnects from my network regularly. Finally, if I don't always remember to switch back to my iPhone library when I finish playing from my home shared network, there is **** to pay the next time I go back to play my workout mix (to the point where nothing plays until I reset the phone).
iTunes Match is not the solution. I tried it. While I think it's a woderful idea in theory, it's horrible in execution, especially if you have a large library. I have a fast enough broadband and WIFI connection to know that it should work, but it simply doesn't work.
I'm really only here to complain. I have learned not to expect a response from Apple or timeline for fixing the issue. I just want Apple to know that it's alienating some of its most loyal customers. For years, I used your products to keep myself and my media organized. I don't want to change that and do not look forward to changing it. Still, I was a PC user once and I can certainly go back to being a PC user again. The inconvenience of attempting to organize my files on a PC will be offset by the time saved not having to deal with features you introduce that only work some of the time. I'm begging Apple to STOP BREAKING THINGS THAT ARE NOT BROKEN and to GO BACK AND FIX THE THINGS YOU BROKE. I would much prefer that you concentrate on fixing these glitches than introducing useless new UI features like different shades of color at the top of the iOS task bar. I don't know how long I will give for some of these issues to be resolved. It may depend on how many times I have to take time out of my day to lodge yet another complaint on this forum about your numerous software glitches. In the end, I WILL give up and move on. It's sad because, once upon a time, I grew to love your company and products.
Someday, I'll take another twenty minutes out of my day to lodge a complaint about how unreliable WIFI syncing has become since it was first introduced.

I just tried this with my iPhone 4 and it also didn't work. This is how it failed:
- Select "shared".
- The "pie" start to grow, got to about 1/3, then crashed without
    bringing in the shared content.
- After that, the library appeared in list, but I couldn't select
    it at all anymore.
Then I tried it with my iPad. The pie got to the same point, sat
there for a long time, then completed and worked fine.
I did a hard reset of the phone and tried again, this time it
behaved like the iPad and worked fine.
Not sure whether it was the hard reset or whether sharing with
another device "woke something up", but in any event it works
now and I can't get it to break again.
Note, I only use sharing for movies, since I have Music Match
(which works *great* for me, even on 3G).
Specs:
Sharing: 2.7 GHz iMac i5, OS 10.6.8
Clients: iPhone 4
              4th gen iPad
Everything (including iTunes) patched to the latest.

I can't get home sharing to work

I'm trying to share music between my Mac and my macbook, signed into homesharing on both in itunes.. however the option for home sharing doesnt come up after clicking done when signing in. before clicking done, it states i will be able to locate the shared files in the left hand top corner, but there are no home sharing otption.

iOS 6.1.4 is for iDevices.
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Potential Solution: Home Sharing issues with iTunes 10.6

TL;DR: On a hunch, I changed the power settings of the ATV to never sleep. Since then, I have not had any issues. Granted, it's only been a couple of days, but it seems to have done the trick.
Folks,
Wanted to share my experience with Home Sharing issues after upgrading to iTunes 10.6. These forums a rampant with reports of the issue, so I'll defer to the search field above if you don't know what I am talking about. In short: iTunes 10.6 seems to have busted Home Sharing.
For those who do, here's what I found:
For some reason, is saw a very large number of established sessions from my Apple TV (ATV) into port 3689 on my Mac. This is the port that ATV uses to query iTunes to see what's available via Home Sharing (e.g.: what movies, songs, pictures, etc are available for display on the ATV).
A sniffer cap and some observation of the power indicator on the ATV indicated that while it was sleeping, the ATV was querying iTunes. It would power on for a sec (wake on LAN, maybe?), issue some queries, then sleep.
When this happened, the TCP sessions created were never town down. As such, I would eventually see 200+ established sessions on port 3689. I don't know exactly how many it took to make this happen, but when I saw this, iTunes stopped accepting new connections.
Of course, bouncing iTunes would remedy the issue for a while, but it would return.
On a hunch, I changed the power settings of the ATV to never sleep. Since then, I have not had any issues. Granted, it's only been a couple of days, but it seems to have done the trick.
I would be interested to hear if it works for others.
Happy viewing,
Chris

Thanks for posting this.
I've been searching for an option of how to approach this problem.
I picked up the new AppleTV when it was released, but it has made iTunes fairly useless from a Home Sharing standpoint.
I also observed the massive number of TCP connections being opened against iTunes, but never closed.
As expected, I could manually kill a few of these connections, and then could connect again, even without closing iTunes.
I performed most of my testing with Windows 7, but while troubleshooting I had the same issue with iTunes on an old Mac Mini I had sitting around.
I will try your solution, which makes a lot of sense, but it would be nice if Apple fixed the real problem.
Thanks again.

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