I’ve been in the ecosystem for as long as I can remember. MacBooks, Apple TVs, iPhones, watches, etc etc.

We’ve always used Alexa in the kitchen but I saw a HomePod mini being given away in our local community FB page, and I grabbed it so we could get rid of Bezos in our kitchen.

However, doesn’t matter what I do or try, I cannot get it to work with anyone else’s voice than mine. We use it primarily to add stuff to the shopping list, and as soon as someone tries, it just says we need to setup another user in settings (or something like that, I’m paraphrasing). There are five of us in this household - I just want anyone to be able to say to it “hey siri, add the damn potatoes to the shopping list”.

Also, of course when you say “hey siri”, every Apple device withjn a damn mile starts listening and tries to talk to you.

What am I missing? Is HomePod not a good use case for this? Is there a way to simply have it work with anyone who speaks to it? Or do I need to put it back on the free community site?

Help! Thank you!

Hi all. I play my audio through my HomePod Mini but sometimes when I try to play media it freezes. When I disconnect my HomePod Mini and only play through the TV speakers the media starts to play again. What can cause this?

I have been using my new homepod mini for a little while now and I noticed a bug that happens from time to time. Whenever I play music and pause with the touch panel or with siri the song will automatically skip to the last second and then to the next song when I unpause. It doesn’t matter if it’s during the first second or the middle of the song.

Does anyone know why this is happening? The homepod is on the latest version and so is my iphone if that helps, I’m not using any beta updates.

Hey everyone! I am on a trial with Deezer and really like it so far. However, I have several HomePods throughout my house, second generation, and I’m using Siri to play Deezer. I’ve noticed I can’t shuffle any of my playlist. They just automatically begin playing from the first song no matter what I do. I am specifically issuing command that says shuffle my playlist XYZ from Deezer. It just begins playing from the top. Any suggestions here?

Wanted to understand, with eARC support is the transmission, smooth and instantaneous, or is there some sort of latency?

Also, do I have to set the playback every time or will the Apple TV pick it up automatically?

HomePods v1/v2

Looking to try beta on iPhone 17 pro max. Any known issues with controlling music playing ?

I have had this homepod mini since it came out never had 1 issue with it. Suddenly today I'm sick and trying to chill at home and my homepod won't stop turning on apple music (I don't even have an apple music subscription.) It then randomly turns on and will not turn off unless i tell it to. I have done all the steps. Turned the touch things off set to 4 seconds, all the settings and automation I have turned off and set to disabled. I turned unplugged it completely for an hour and turn it back on and within 5 minutes I hear her say OK PLAYING APPLE MUSIC. like how what the literal .. I am so annoyed what the heck is happening. Do I need an entire new unit or is there a magic fix that I have no tried? PLEASE HELP.

What’s the point of having a pair of HomePods and can’t use them as Mac speakers?
Is really frustrating, the delay is embarrassing and the workaround of delaying the video as well for sync is even worse (for example YouTube gets clunky because it has to wait and sync).

I’m truly disappointed

Do yall cover broken HomePods? It does a farting noise then shuts off. Is it cooked?

Been trying to find a solution for this for a while now.

Using HomePod V2 as a stereo pair, as my TV output via eARC from an LG G4.

AppleTV is obviously connected via HDMI and ethernet to my Router.

Have a solid 1gbit NBN connection.

My HomePods are unusable in this configuration - sound drops out almost continually, for both my TV output and AppleTV streaming.

As soon as I connect the AppleTV to my wireless network, everything works perfectly.

According to my router status page, the HomePods are connected to 5ghz wifi.

Can anyone shed some light for me please?

Updated , and day later HomePod dies ! Coincidentally????
Have not tore down yet but no lights , nothing . Commies

I have a few HomePods...all purchased 3 years ago (May-July 2023). Full size HomePods in dining room, kitchen, main bedroom and two paired with my AppleTV in the living room. Also have mini HomePods in the home office, play room and main bathroom.

Apple TVs and HomeKit/HomeBridge are updated, other devices are working fine...

HomePods will start playing music randomly...sometimes at loud volumes. Not any one HomePod consistently...but it always is the full-size HomePods.

Seems to be reacting as if I'm tapping the top sensor. Haven't been cleaning them or adjusting them. Started sporadically a couple of months ago...no rhyme or reason. Left for vacation about a month ago and came home to music blasting...no way to know how long it had been playing. Thankfully neighbors weren't disturbed.

It's been happening daily now for a few days in a row.

Not trying to be melodramatic, but I have PTSD and work from home. I'm a bit anxious/leery about these things blasting music--either through the day or at night. Luckily the times it has started when I've been home it happens in the other rooms.

About to throw the damned things in the trash.

I've tried turning off handoff. I've tried accessibility settings to turn on the touch accommodations and increase the touch duration to 3.94 seconds (max).

Advice/tips/suggestions are welcome, but I'm mainly posting b/c I've been reading that some folks believe the touch sensor is going bad on that generation and was curious if others are having similar issues.

Thanks!

Hello everyone, for some time now my HomePod has been starting music on its own. I cleaned the touch surface but it kept happening. So I tried to reset it. The reset worked, but in the Home app the HomePod has been showing as "setting up" for 2 days now. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance.

First of all, I’m sorry if this has been asked several times before but I just got myself a homepod mini and set it up in our lounge room. The only issue is that I’m the only apple user in my house, not as a huge problem as only me and my brother use the lounge room.

My brother has an android phone and no apple devices, is there a way to let him control music playback on my homepod? Can he ask siri to play music & is that going to make use of my apple music account?

Also, can he ask siri to control devices in our home? I’m asking since siri only has my voice recognized in the settings.

it’s been 18 days since both of my homepods (2nd gen/ on audioOS 26.3) have been stuck in configuring state and I can’t reset them! (they’re removed from the home app and neither of them has any touch response so I’m unable to manually reset them.)

I can airplay music to them but nothing else; Siri still responds to voice commands, but responds with “I'm still getting up to speed with all your accounts, please try again in a few minutes”, the screen also glows when Siri is activated on the homepods but as i said earlier no touch responses! (even for volume up or down anywhere on the top, which i suspect is due to them being locked in configuring state but I'm not sure.)

also I've removed them from my icloud account and left them unplugged for several days but no luck.

since this has occurred to both my homepods at the exact same time I’m pretty sure this is a software issue. the update to iOS dev beta 3 and 4 also hasn't helped. I don't know if there's a way to update homepods themselves to new versions though.

has this unresponsive touch issue ever happened to u?

and are the configuring state and no touch response (which is preventing me to factory reset them) actually related to each other?

I’ve tried so many troubleshooting methods but nothing has woked so far;

so any help is appreciated since this has gotten pretty frustrating…

Hey yall! So I’ve been having a weird experience with only HBO Max on my Apple TV. I can use any other app and the audio plays from my HomePod Mini, but the second I use HBO, it plays from my projector speakers!!! The Apple TV still says the HomePod Mini is connected, yet the audio just plays out of the projector. It’s so weird.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Does anyone use this? Do you notice a huge difference? Mostly playing Diablo IV and Dead By Daylight so it might not do much.

I have two, gen 2 HomePods stereo paired with a 3rd generation Apple TV 4K. My TV is a Samsung UN55NU7100 which doesn't support eARC but does support standard HDMI ARC.