# From your phone to the big screen

Found something on your phone and want it on the television? Aina sends it there with Google Cast or AirPlay. Want to keep watching while you answer a message? Picture in Picture keeps it in a corner.

Updated 2026-10-25. By the Aina IPTV team. https://ainaiptv.com/cast-iptv-to-tv/

![A film’s page in Aina on an iPhone, ready to play on the phone or send to the television](https://ainaiptv.com/assets/phone-movie-en-1320-BKjaWy53.webp)

## Google Cast

- From an iPhone, an iPad, or an Android phone or tablet, to a Chromecast, a Google TV, or any television with Chromecast built in.
- The Cast button appears in the player’s top bar whenever a Cast device is on your network. Choose it, pick the television, and the stream plays there.
- Your phone becomes the remote: the system’s own Cast controls pause, seek and stop, and a pill over the phone’s picture says what it is playing on.

## AirPlay

- From an iPhone or an iPad, to an Apple TV or a television that takes AirPlay.
- Channels and films that come as HLS or MP4 are sent with picture and sound. That includes an Xtream Codes line’s live channels, which Aina asks for as HLS on Apple devices.
- Back on the phone, the stream carries on there from the same moment.

| What you are watching | Google Cast | AirPlay |
| --- | --- | --- |
| An Xtream Codes line’s live channel | Picture and sound | Picture and sound |
| A film or episode in MP4 | Picture and sound | Picture and sound |
| Another playlist’s MPEG-TS channel | Does not play | Sound only |
| A film in MKV or AVI | Usually does not play | Sound only |

For a stream the television cannot take, use the system’s Screen Mirroring on iPhone and iPad (from Control Center) or screen casting on Android, which send whatever is on the screen.

> **When the television is turned away**: With Cast and AirPlay, the television fetches the stream from your provider itself. A provider that only answers the app, or a stream that will not let another device load it, plays on the phone and not on the television; no player can change that from the phone. Screen mirroring, or Aina on the television itself, works round it.

## Picture in Picture

- **On iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets**: leave the app while something plays, and it carries on in a small window over everything else. Its buttons play, pause and skip; a live channel shows as live.
- **On Apple TV**: choose Picture in picture in the player’s options, then press the TV button to go to another app with the picture following you.
- Come back to Aina and the picture returns to the full player; close the window and the stream stops, so it never plays on unseen.
- Turn it off in Settings, then Playback, if you would rather the player stop when you leave.

> **Already have a television app?**: Casting is handy for a moment; for every evening, Aina on the television itself is better, driven by its own remote. It runs on [Apple TV](https://ainaiptv.com/apple-tv/) and [Android TV and Google TV](https://ainaiptv.com/android-tv/), and a television can be signed in from your phone by scanning a QR code.

## Questions and answers

### Can I cast IPTV to a Chromecast?

Yes, from an iPhone, iPad or Android phone or tablet, with the Cast button in Aina’s player whenever a Cast device is on your network.

### Why does AirPlay send only the sound of some channels?

AirPlay can carry the picture of HLS and MP4 streams. Other channels sent as MPEG-TS, and films in MKV or AVI, play in Aina’s own player, whose picture AirPlay cannot take; the system’s Screen Mirroring sends those.

### Does Picture in Picture work with live TV?

Yes, on iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, and Apple TV. A live channel plays on in the window, marked live.

## Read next

- [iPhone and iPad](https://ainaiptv.com/iphone-ipad/)
- [Android phones and tablets](https://ainaiptv.com/android/)
- [How to watch IPTV on your TV](https://ainaiptv.com/guides/watch-iptv-on-tv/)
- [Every feature](https://ainaiptv.com/features/)