Now that Apple released iOS 4.3 update for download you can set up the most awaited home sharing feature in your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Home sharing option will let you stream music movies, pictures and other media files in a wireless private network. That means you can share an iTunes library from a PC or Mac to compatible iPhone, iPod or iPad. Follow these steps to set up home sharing in iOS 4.3 devices.
First download iOS 4.3 and install it using iTunes 10.2
After successful instillation and restore, open your device settings and turn on WiFi connectivity.
You will see the home sharing button just beneath the device icon on the left plane of iTunes software. If not, you can access it from Advanced tab at the top section.
Enter your Apple ID and password in the home sharing Window and click on the button create Home Share.
Now we can set up Home Sharing in iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
Find the settings for the iPod music player in your idevice. As shown above, enter your Apple ID and password in Home Sharing option. That’s it – you have set up your idevice to stream your iTunes library wirelessly over WiFi. Just go to iPod app> More> Shared> click on a listed Library. Now you will be able to play songs and videos from that desktop iTunes library using iPod Music player.
i m not getting any home sharing option on my ipod4 i hav updated ios4.3.1…
please help me out with this…
i have updated my ipod 4 to ios 4.3.1 bt i m nt gettignany home sharing option in my ipo… i have checked in music settings also please help me out with this…
Many thanks for this article, I now have access to my entire iTunes library through my iPod Touch via wifi.
@suyash – open up iTunes and in the left column choose the Home Sharing link. Enter your Apple Id and password to start home sharing.
On your ipod go into Settings then Music and at the bottom of the screen there should be a Home Sharing section where you can type in the same Apple Id and Password you used in iTunes.
Exit settings and go into Music (where you would normally play your albums, playlists etc) and go into More. You should see an entry called Shared. Click on that and you should see your iTunes library under Shared Libraries. Click on that library entry and all your library albums/podcasts/playlists et al should be available to stream to the iPod.
Regards M
Thanks, works fine!
go to settings…..ipod…(on your ipod) home sharing is there
Thank you!
I was just curious on how to do that without filling my iphone with what I call “other’s music”
and I found this article and you made my day!!!
Thank you very much