Support

Airlift for macOS · version 1.0

Installing

  • Open the downloaded disk image and drag Airlift to your Applications folder.
  • Launch it once. Safari only discovers the extension after the app has run.
  • In Safari, open Settings → Extensions and switch Airlift on. The app window has a button that takes you straight there.
  • Click the Airlift icon in Safari’s toolbar and choose Always Allow on Every Website. Without this the extension cannot see the players it is meant to fix.

Where the button appears

In the top right corner of the video player, once an AirPlay receiver is on your network. Press it and pick your TV.

On sites that assemble video inside the browser, the button opens a small Airlift player over the page and continues from where you paused. Press AirPlay there — the strip at the bottom is Safari’s own — and the stream goes to your TV. “Back to page” at the top returns you to the site.

The button is not there

Open the Airlift panel from Safari’s toolbar. The first line always says what is going on. The usual causes:

“No AirPlay devices found”

The TV is off, asleep, or on a different network from the Mac. Guest Wi-Fi, a separate network for smart devices, or client isolation on the access point will all do this.

“AirPlay is already here”

The player has a working button of its own, so Airlift deliberately does not add a second one. Use the site’s button.

“Player is out of view”

Scroll to the video. The button follows the player and hides when it leaves the screen.

“No video found”

Either the page has no player Airlift can work with, or it loaded before the extension was allowed on this site. Reload the page.

The TV shows a spinner and never starts

Almost always DRM. Paid services encrypt their streams, and only an Apple TV can obtain the keys — a Samsung, LG or Sony set will sit on the loading indicator indefinitely. Airlift warns about this in the panel before you try.

Nothing can be done about it from a browser extension, and Airlift does not attempt to.

What Airlift cannot do

  • DRM-protected video — plays to an Apple TV only, for the reason above.
  • YouTube — its player already has a working AirPlay button; Airlift leaves it alone.
  • DASH streams — a delivery format Safari cannot play natively. Uncommon, but it exists.
  • Full-screen players that take over the screen themselves — when a site hands the video to macOS in its own full-screen view, nothing on the page can draw over it. Leave full screen, use the button, then go back.

Reporting a problem

The panel has a developer section with a Copy report button. It puts a technical summary on your clipboard — what kind of player the page uses, what Airlift found, and what happened when you pressed the button. Values inside web addresses are stripped, so signed links are not included.

Paste it into an email along with the address of the page. That report answers most questions on its own.

Contact

yo.kononov@gmail.com — bug reports, sites that do not work, and questions.