{"slug": "airplay", "name": "AirPlay", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 3.204, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2025-11-16", "latest": "2026-10-20", "why": "I use AirPlay to extend one laptop into an older laptop so I can have 2 displays", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I use AirPlay to extend one laptop into an older laptop so I can have 2 displays", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.apple.com/airplay/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["AirPlay"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 794113728, "item_id": 49632108, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49632108", "by": "reenorap", "date": "2026-09-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use AirPlay to extend one laptop into an older laptop so I can have 2 displays", "excerpt": "Apple does this right now. I use AirPlay to extend one laptop into an older laptop so I can have 2 displays when I\u2019m away from home", "context": "", "use_case": "extending display to second laptop", "switched_from": "", "story": "iPhone Duo"}, {"id": 772789280, "item_id": 48299330, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299330", "by": "vsgherzi", "date": "2026-05-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Air play has been super solid for me", "excerpt": "Air play has been super solid for me but I love to see solid interop! Big news for the chrome stick users!", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple reportedly preps native support for Google Cast in iOS 27"}, {"id": 761059328, "item_id": 47566208, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566208", "by": "reaperducer", "date": "2026-03-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "But Airplay works fine.", "excerpt": "I use it around the house to Airplay music to various devices. A number of things don't work, or work in unexpected ways, mostly because Apple doesn't allow me to log in to iCloud with such an old phone. I can't control lights with the Home app. But Airplay works fine. The phone doesn't know what a HomePod is, but it shows up with a regular generic speaker icon, like the AirMac I have hooked up to my stereo. 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If I choose to Airplay from the control center, it mirrors the whole screen (or possibly also extends as a second screen). Whatever I open on the iPad (or drag to the second screen) is what the audience sees. 2. If I Airplay from inside an app with presentation mode, it works similar to Airplaying a video", "context": "", "use_case": "screen mirroring and presenting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"}, {"id": 794113728, "item_id": 49632108, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49632108", "by": "reenorap", "date": "2026-09-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use AirPlay to extend one laptop into an older laptop so I can have 2 displays", "excerpt": "Apple does this right now. 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A number of things don't work, or work in unexpected ways, mostly because Apple doesn't allow me to log in to iCloud with such an old phone. I can't control lights with the Home app. But Airplay works fine. The phone doesn't know what a HomePod is, but it shows up with a regular generic speaker icon, like the AirMac I have hooked up to my stereo. Sometime", "context": "", "use_case": "Streaming music to speakers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"}, {"id": 735107609, "item_id": 45944225, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944225", "by": "jchw", "date": "2025-11-16", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "I believe Apple's AirPlay is less locked down", "excerpt": "Fully agree with the sentiments here in terms of \"you might not need this\", and for many of us the Steam Machine is not really marketed toward us in particular. I think it's not marketed away from us, though. For me, I am considering it, depending on the price. I already have a small form factor PC that I run Bazzite on in the living room. The problem? There's some kind of hardware issue. Unfortunately, it might be t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don\u2019t need a Steam Machine"}]}