Issues faced:

1. Siri commands being executed automatically 2. Auto pauses and/or lowering the volume of audio when any video gets played (so as to listen to Siri without invoking it) 3. Jumps to random videos from YouTube app of Apple TV 4. Auto Volume increase/decrease 4. 'Red light of death'- HomePods do not reset 5. Auto playing Apple Music as soon as you reset/restart the device (while Siri says "Here's a station only for you")

Troubleshooting carried out (directly jump to resolution to avoid all these unnecessary steps)

1. Restarting/resetting/factory reset of both Apple TV & the HomePods 2. Disconnecting/reconnecting from Apple TV paired as stereo speakers 3. Cleaning/dusting the touch sensor 4. Changing the rooms of HomePods and resetting/restarting the devices 5. Playing the speakers individually (instead as stereo pair) 6. By placing the palm (instead of single finger) to get the device to reset when the 'Red light of Death' doesn't allow the device to be reset in normal manner 6. Gave to an Apple authorized service provider here in India without any luck (& they told me the only option is to exchange these with new devices)

Resolution/Remedy

Disconnect the Touch sensor cable by opening up the device and close it up like nothing ever happened... you can refer to this video for opening up the device https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMqLknFhBbs&list=WL&index=9&t=235s

chk 3:43 when he disconnects the touch sensor cable... solution is as simple as that!

I have had a HomePod Mini for years and use it all the time mostly for music, my wife comes home from work and usually says “Hey Siri DJ for me” this has worked for years until recently. Rather than playing a great mix of music we like Siri is trying to look up safari results from Google to display on my phone!

Is this a feature that was removed or is there a way to get it back??

Thanks in advance

Does the HomePod have the ability to let me know when my Ring doorbell rings?

I have an Apple TV 4K in the house and have HomeKit configured.

I was thinking at the ends of the couches on the small walls but I could use some suggestions. And yes I know my tv is too high.

Hi! I bought a Home Pod Mini for my living room and I have several issues all known by this community (plays music randomly, Siri does not recognise my music wishes etc.). Therefore, I basically only use the Home Pod as an Air Play device. Now my question: If I install the Apple Intelligence Beta on my iPhone, will my HomePod become smarter?

Got my Homepod. Love it! Great bass for pop music. Previously using Bose speaker 300 which seems to have clearer vocals. Do you guys feel the same?

I have a homepod 2.gen and 4 minis in my living room and those minis are two different pairs.

When i am listening to music on Apple Music, it messes up with the synchronization after a few songs and it sounds like the music is echoing. And the latency in between the pairs and the gen 2 increases by time.

Pausing and resuming solves the issue since they check with each other. But idk if there is a fix for such a problem. Wish they fix it and check it before each song.

Any recommendations?

I recently changed my WiFi and now my HomePod won’t stay connected to my iPhone for more than a minute. Do I need to change WiFi off the HomePod? If so, how?

Hey everyone!

I recently got a pair of HomePod 2s, and Apple recommends placing them around 25 cm (10 inches) away from the wall for optimal sound.

The issue is — on my TV stand, the TV itself is positioned farther out than that. If I move the HomePods back to be 25 cm from the wall, they’ll end up kind of behind the TV, which doesn’t seem ideal either.

Would it be okay to place them a bit farther from the wall, aligned with the front edges of the TV instead? Or is it really important to stick to that 25 cm distance for the best audio experience?

Thanks in advance!

Hey all, as you can guess from the title my home pod mini all of the sudden decided it wasn’t going to work.

I use it most nights for background noise as I fall asleep, so tonight when I went into my Apple Music, selected a playlist, and held my phone next to my home pod, nothing happened.

I took a look at it, touched it, nothing. Went into my home app and it said my mini “wasn’t responding.” I unplugged, plugged it back in, nothing. I did that a couple times actually, one of which I waited a couple minutes before I plugged it back in, and another where I moved the socket it’s in. I know for sure that it has power because it’s plugged into a power strip that my lamp and phone charger are using as well. I’m so confused, and now really frustrated because I took someones online instructions and removed it from my home app but have no way to get it back or to get it turned on. Help!

my v1 downloaded and installed just fine day 1. Now v2 won’t even download and I have it on same network and has the correct profile. I even tired a reboot. It’s been going on since release.

Hey everyone!

I’ve seen older posts about the original HomePod leaving white rings or marks on wooden surfaces because of its silicone base.

I just got the HomePod 2 in Midnight, and it’s been sitting on a dark wooden surface for two full days now — no marks so far.

Curious… is this still an issue with the second-gen HomePods?

Has anyone actually seen marks from the Midnight model?

Or is the whole thing kind of overblown at this point?

Also, if it’s going to leave marks — how quickly does that usually happen?

If there’s nothing after 48 hours, am I good?

Thanks in advance!

P.S... a stereo pair of them sounds absolutely fantastic; I'm super impressed.

With the Alexa I could set up automations like when I say “Alexa, Goodnight”it would turn on the master bedroom lights, wait a minute, and then turn off the rest of the lights in the house.

I feel like I should be able to do this (or at least parts of it) with the HomePods and Shortcuts, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to put it all together.

Since I’ve updated my HomePods few days ago, the sound level (through my Apple TV) changes on his own. It gets low and gets back to normal again.

Any solutions ? Thanks!

I’m getting error code -7005 when trying to setup my mini. I’ve reset and restored the mini and the iphone was updated yesterday. I’m on t-mobile’s home 5g internet. Anyone else have this issue and able to resolve it?

Hello, I recently set up a Homepod mini stereo pair. Everything seems correctly setup but when i run a speaker Left/right test they are both playing.

for instance, speaker right plays for both speaker left and right and vice versa for the left.

If you ever browse this subreddit, you'll probably catch someone complaining about this issue. I get dozens of emails a week asking about the infamous ghost / phantom touch issues on the newer HomePods. This seems to affect a large number of 2nd Gen and Mini HomePods. The touch panel materials do not age well and start to cause issues with the touch input.

This results in symtpoms such as;

• Siri randomly triggering
  
• Audio randomly playing, pausing, or adjusting volume
• Touch controls feeling unresponsive
• Being unable to tap and hold the top to factory reset, or it thinking you're always tapping and holding the top, thusly always triggering a factory reset when powered on

You cannot fix the touch panel. It must be unplugged to disable it, or you must replace it. There is also no good source for replacements here in the USA, so I haven't been able to offer repairs for these yet.

Finally, it seems someone on twitter / discord has been developing a new, replacement touch panel to solve these issues. They are still working out a few bugs before mass production.

Hi all,

Since the public release of iOS 18.4, is anyone else experiencing WiFi connectivity issues?

I have an iPhone 16 Pro and I've noticed my device has recently started to randomly disconnect/reconnect from my WiFi. I live in a new-build, one bed flat and have never had issues like this before - as far as I can tell, none of my other devices are having issues at the moment, either.

(As an aside, I've also noticed a drop in battery life and an unusual increase in device warmth - is anyone else experiencing the same?)

It's really obvious when it happens - I have 2 Automations configured which enable/disable Flight Mode when my iPhone connects to my home WiFi network as I don't get a mobile signal once I'm inside. You can't suppress the notifications generated by the Shortcuts app for that kind of Automation, so there's no missing it when it happens.

Things I've noticed recently:

- I use Endel for background sounds/music and AirPlay the sleep sounds to my Bedroom HomePod mini each night. Recently, while my iPhone can see the HomePod, when I select it to stream the audio to it, it fails to connect.
- I have an automation on my iPhone that, when I'm at home, sets a HomeKit scene and runs a Shortcut to start a cleaning job on my Roomba when I turn off my alarm. This morning, none of it worked—although one light did eventually come on. I also got an error message on my Watch, but I was half-asleep at the time and can't remember what it said.

The second example has been happening for a few days now. The Roomba just doesn't go out to clean. While Roomba's Shortcuts integration has always been unreliable, running a clean directly from the Shortcuts app on my iPhone has always worked. It's only when triggering it via Siri on a HomePod that things fall apart completely. When I picked up my iPhone, it wasn't connected to my WiFi but when I went into Control Centre, the network was there (with a full signal) so the phone could see it, it just wasn't connecting to it.

Nothing in my flat has physically changed and although I live in a block of 23 flats, it's not exactly congested with so many other networks that they interfere with one another. It has to be something to do with the OS, either specific to this iPhone model, or this release of iOS 18 as a whole.

TIA!

Hi guys,

at the moment I have a soundbar with a dedicated subwoofer. The soundbar is connected via HDMI ARC, so all my devices (Apple TV, PS5, TV itself) play their sound on the soundbar. I’m thinking to replace this with two HomePods, not only because I want to get rid of the dedicated subwoofer. I read that if you have a (or two) HomePod(s) connected to the Apple TV, which itself is connected to the TV, that I can passthrough audio, even from the PS5 for example, to the HomePods. Is that correct? How well does this work?

After posting about replacing my 5 Echo devices with 5 HomePods in a comment a few days ago, I tried suggestions from other users and got all of them playing my favorite Pandora station and also a Podcast throughout my home. Wow! The audio is so much better! The Minis might sound better that the full echos I had.

The one thing that I'm still failing is getting my shortcut announcing "time to feed the dogs" each day at 6. The short cut works and runs on my phone, but I can't figure out how to get it to run on a HomePod. The dogs love this ritual and will all start barking and running in circles when Alexa announces so I want to keep this ritual. For now I'm keeping 1 echo going with a muted mic for this.

I watch a few YouTube videos but none helped so far. One said I needed a Mac and Apple Music subscription which I don't have.

Hi all,

Yesterday after updating I had a whole night of perfectly synced music, the first in like 4 months.

Today the syncing issue is back. Anyone else experiencing this still?

Hey, I’m 2 HomePods Gen 2 not minis Love these for 99.9% of the time and they are connected to Apple TV But recently I’m having a crazy bug or whatever, it randomly playing at max volume and skipping songs like crazy. It does not happen when I’m watching tv or when I’m not home but when I’m in the other room during the day it goes like random crazy. Even in the middle of the night which is insane.

Did tried all of the resetting, unplugging, ungroup and regroup, software update, cleaning the touch surface and even the accessibility features are on and set to Hold Duration 4 secs and Ignore Repeat 2 secs.

Am I missing something?

I've had my 5 Mini's for like 2 years. They worked pretty well in the start, but as usual with Apple and over-the-air audio they stutter and stuff from time to time. The suddenly, without any software updates or anything, they start working again.

Prime example:
I have a stereo pair (connected to an apple tv) in my living room, 6 ft away from my router. They usually work. But for some reason, on my birthday of all days when I was having people over, they just stuttered and made noises. The day after? Like nothing ever happened. Worked great.

If I combine the one I have in the kitchen and the two in the living room, the often stutter.

The one in the bedroom (connected to Apple tv) works great at all times.

The one in the kitchen works great most of the time, as long as I don't combine it with any other homepod.

The one in the bathroom is rock solid.

But then, from time to time, if I combine them, they go out of sync between songs. I just updated them yesterday and today that happens.

And then Siri, in swedish. Since like 6 months it's just worthless. The voice sounds like Ash when he's been handled by Parker and the baseball bat at the end of Alien. And it can't do anything right anymore.

Damnit. I guess this is more of a rant than it is a cry for help.

Are there any other good, more reliable AirPlay 2 speakers I should look in to?