October 15, 2011

How To Turn On Airplay Mirroring On iPhone 4S & iPhone 5

Update: This guide still applies to enable Airplay Mirroring on your iPhone 5, iPad 3 and iPad 4th generation.

The iPhone 4S was released yesterday in a bunch of markets around the world and one of the few new features in phone over previous models was the inclusion of Airplay Mirroring. I got my new iPhone today and actually used this new feature as an excuse to pick up a new AppleTV 2 which I’ve been wanting for awhile.

The problem that I ran into when I first set things up was actually figuring out how to turn on mirroring. It’s not in the settings pane as most would assume, there seems to be no mention of Airplay in there at all. The feature is actually ‘hidden’ just a double-tap and a couple swipes away from the home screen. Continue reading