How to install Kodi on iOS 9 without jailbreak

Just recently i had to reconstruct my HTPC as it was getting instead chaotic and also slow. At the time, we were still running an older version of XBMC "Gotham" before it was renamed to Kodi "Helix". kodi We were additionally running our iPads a little behind on iOS 8.x since while updates are nice, occasionally it takes a bit for the pests to be worked out with a lot of updates.

This is particularly the situation when handling open-source software as things tend to take a while to be suitable with whatever adjustments business like Apple make.



After quite a great deal of Google browsing to attempt and locate some responses (there was fairly a great deal of "iOS 9 AirPlay braked with Kodi" messages) without much in the method of solutions for the problem. kodi chromecast  There was a really visible blog post on the Kodi forums when researching the issue which you could check out below which thorough a fair bit concerning the issues with having AirPlay working in Kodi.

I came accross the latest changelog for Kodi "Jarvis" with some iOS/AirPlay certain modifications. These adjustments included:

Added support for iOS 9.0 by including assistance for assembling Kodi with Xcode 7 IDE and also iOS SDK 9.0
Added preliminary support for AirPlay from iOS 9 songs streaming capability
Improved AirPlay compatibility suppor for iphone 8 (through upgraded libshairplay).
These adjustments started to look appealing as they were carrying out modifications specifically for iOS 9. Nonetheless Kodi is currently secure on "Helix" as well as "Jarvis" is currently in beta 5.

Recognizing this, i made a decision that upgrading Kodi to the most recent beta would possibly be the most effective concept.


There are 2 options you have when upgrading Kodi to a growth build, xbmc-nightly (Alpha) and unstable (Beta).

I decided in for the xbmc-nightly which is currently Kodi "Krypton".

I also stumbled upon this Reddit article.


You might have to switch to 'Professional' setups in Kodi and also hit 'iOS8 compatibility setting' on/off. Worked for me.

After discovering this remark i realized that there was in fact an 'Professional' settings mode in addition to the 'Advanced' settings.

Once the Expert settings were made it possible for in Kodi, there was no "iOS8 compatibility" setups. After reading a great deal of articles on the Kodi online forums discussing that Kodi no much longer supported Images and Video clips from AirPlay due to the fact that of the changes Apple made last year.


Recognizing this, i evaluated just what would certainly happen if i actually mosted likely to alter the 'Enable AirPlay "Videos" as well as "Photo" support' and located that there was a description of this specific setting down all-time low.

disable when making use of iphone 9 or later on clients to recover music streaming by means of AirPlay. "Video clips" and also "Pictures" are only sustained for iphone clients using iOS 8.x and also older.

Instantly after switching this triggering, our iphone 9.x gadgets had the ability to make use of AirPlay once again.

Note: Making use of AirPlay from Mac OSX El Capitan did work prior to shutting off the expert only establishing for Kodi's AirPlay solution. I'm unclear whether this is simply a badgered pest, or whether OSX manage AirPlay a little differently.

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