InterContinental Hotels Group Launches Apple AirPlay at 60 Properties Across North America

The InterContinental New York Times Square now offers guests access to Apple AirPlay.

Calling it “a first in the hospitality business,” Apple and InterContinental Hotels Group announced that, as of Friday, over 60 of the hotelier’s properties in North America have placed LG flatscreen televisions that support Apple AirPlay in their respective guest rooms.

Apple first announced its plan to bring AirPlay to hotels at its 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference.

Hotel guests at these properties – which include Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, Hotel Indigo, Candlewood Suites, and InterContinental properties – can use an iPhone or iPad with iOS 17 or higher to stream television programs, movies, photos, and presentations, as well as playlists from Apple Music, games on Apple Arcade, or workouts on Apple Fitness+ to the guest room’s LG TV.

LG is the world’s first hotel TV manufacturer to support AirPlay capabilities.

Accessing the new functionality is simple and involves scanning a QR code on the television screen with the iOS device. The feature creates a secure channel between the two devices that is only accessible to the iPhone user and connectivity between the two devices is permanently deleted upon checkout.

To use, a compatible iPhone or iPad running iOS 17.3 or iPadOS 17.3 or later is required.

Hotels participating in the initial launch include the InterContinental New York Times Square; the Hotel Indigo NYC Downtown-Wall Street; the InterContinental The Clement Monterey, in California; the Crowne Plaza Kearney in Nebraska; the InterContinental Buckhead in Atlanta; and the Holiday Inn and Suites Ottawa Kanata.

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