Hi fam,
Do you think there is a real chance of getting support for 4 or 5 HomePods to work together for better Atmos surround including rear channels? I like my pair of HP2 but I miss the fun of having rear channels. I have been on the fence to upgrade to Sony Theatre Quad + SW for my Sony A95K with PS5 and Apple TV. I keep on holding on in a hope that someday Apple may come up with a real contender to Sony Theatre Quad. My house is small with a small living room. So, I don’t want to put wired system which I know is better but not practical for me. With better Siri and Apple Intelligence and with Apple’s focus on Smart Home, would this also come together do you think?

This has been happening for a long time now, both on iOS 26 and now I’m on the latest iOS 27 beta.

In case my title wasn’t clear, the HomePod runs the Siri Shortcut successfully, but while my iPhone is in my pocket Siri gets activated, and it’s not even listening. The Siri bubble stays on my phone until I press the side button to make it go away. Sometimes I forget that I have to disable it and I remember because I start feeling heat coming from my pocket.

Hello everyone, if Apple does end up releasing a new HomePod this year as the rumors suggest. I think this might just be the chance for me to purchase one. I have a couple of Amazon speakers in my house currently. And I don’t particularly like how they sound. All I really need is a good smart speaker for music. And, since I have Apple Music already. I feel like that would make the most sense.
If you have a HomePod, what do you think of it? And how are you liking the sound quality. The second speaker that I looked at was the Bose lifestyle ultra speaker. And I like how it has compatibility with Chromecast. But I just want that 360° sound that the HomePod offers.

Salut, est-ce je peux configurer un ensemble Apple TV et deux Home Pods sans posséder un iPhone ou un Ipad?

Merci

I’m interested in getting a homepod, but I’m a YouTube Music user so I’m curious about the compatibility.

I know you can connect / set as default YT Music, but what commands work?
Would something specific like “Play [custom playlist name]” work, or is it only phrases like “Play [song/artist name]”

Please let me know!

I'd like to set up my homepod to recognize my kids' voices - partly because the HomePod wont respond to them since I've set up my own recognition. I have some old iPhones that my kids use for audiobooks etc. so I've set up one of them to recognize Kid1's voice. But it looks like my two other old iPhones are too old to be compatible with Apple Home (iPhone 7 & an earlier one). Can I log out Kid1 from the newer iPhone and log the others in to turn on voice activation and have that info stored in the HomePod? Or does their apple account need to be logged in consistently for the HomePod to recognize their voices?

Had trouble manually resetting a pair of 1st gen HomePods following this

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108389

discovered that to really get them to reset, I had to keep them unplugged overnight, not "at least 10 seconds" in the instructions. Then I was able to get to the red spinning light.

Just FYI

I've had HomePods for years. Big ones, minis, the lot. Spent enough to buy a half decent car on these speakers. At least one in every room. Bought my first one in 2020.

The fact that now, six years later, AND I STILL CAN'T RELIABLY PLAY MUSIC FROM THIRD PARTY APPS is an absolute joke. Beyond the pale.

I used to love Soundcloud. Would listen every day. Was absolutely central to my music taste. But eventually, after years of dealing with horrible glitching, lagging, pairing issues, whenever I had the nerve to play anything that wasn't Apple Music, I gave up. Eventually cancelled my Soundcloud subscription. Years ago. Huge part of my musical taste and identity sacrificed for HomePod.

Now I have the fucking nerve to listen to BBC sounds radio shows on a pair of speakers I spent almost a grand on. And no. Not only does it glitch, buffer, etc etc, but once I revert back to Apple Music, it takes a good half an hour to start functioning normally again. I am being PUNISHED for daring to divert from the house of apple for a heartbeat. Pisstake. Fuck them

Let me preface this with: I don’t use Apple home for my smart home ecosystem. I have been using Alexa forever and way too in the financial hole with Alexa to make a switch.

However, I bought an Aqara u400 for the UWB unlocking features. I set it up and boom: thread border router required. I was under the impression that my Alexa devices that have thread enabled would work, but they don’t.

So I buy an Apple HomePod mini (cheapest supported device for the u400). Set it up, go to set the lock up in Apple home and boom again: thread border router required.

Wtf am I doing wrong here. I’m pulling my hair out because I bought a $300 lock and a $120 home pod for the UWB unlocking features and it still won’t work.

I’m tired of having to select every speaker whenever I want to play something. I don’t want to play different things off different speakers.

My HomePod keeps disconnecting from my Xfinity gateway. I was able to solve the problem for a few days by splitting the bands and then reserving IP for the HomePod.

But then Xfinity came to bury their cable, and voila! We’re back to having issues!

Modern devices are build to handle dual band networks. I can’t believe that HomePod is not. I use Apple a lot, but this is hands down the worst experience I’ve ever had with any smart speaker.

Has anyone had similar issues? How did you fix it?

I just bought 2 HomePod Minis with the intention of replacing the kids‘ phones with Homepods at night time. Kids should leave their phones outside their rooms for the night and listen to music with HomePods instead.

It’s the worst Apple experience ever. Kid 1 is using Spotify, kid 2 is using Amazon. Setup was only possible with my Apple ID which I later changed to their IDs. The kids are their HomePod’s main user.

Every single Siri music request is starting music on MY phone not theirs.

How on earth can I set up that Kid 1‘s HomePod is listening to his voice and playing music via his phone and same for Kid 2? It’s fine that it’s routed via their phones, they are in the same house but a few meters away.

Thanks a lot

This one has been happening intermittently all year and driving me a little bit crazy. I have an AppleTV and a few HomePods (v1, v2, and Mini) for home hubs. Because of the layout of the house, I leave one of the HP Minis set as a hub because it's centrally located. Wifi is an Eero mesh and is very stable (other than my crappy cable Internet connection.)

Most of the time, that works OK. But sometimes when the hub changes, some of my Home devices will lose settings or revert to the default room. Yesterday when I (finally) updated the last few HomePods to 26.6, ALL of the switch button configurations which I'd set up over the past week were erased, an automation I set up last weekend was erased, and a whole bunch of devices reverted to the default room.

Fortunately most of the devices were Hue, so I was able to re-sync from Hue to Home to correct the devices. But I had to recreate the automation, and also recreate all the switch button configurations because those were local to HomeKit.

Kind of just venting and also curious if anyone else is experiencing this, but I'm open to suggestions if anyone has them. I have over 100 devices between lights, locks, window blinds, sensors, and switches so having piles of them reset is QUITE annoying.

This is an issue where HomePod (2nd generation) and mini will start to play music randomly and summon siri or reset by itself after a power-cut. Or even volume getting up and down.

This is caused by a faulty touch panel on these devices respectively.

It is NOT a concern for all users but A LOT of users/devices are affected unfortunately.

Solution 1 (if you have Apple care or warranty): Take it to apple for a free replacement.

Solution 2: Look for a guide/video online on how to open it and disconnect the touch panel on your respective device.

Solution 3: There’s actually a third-party touch panel for the second gen being sold on AliExpress that you can buy and replace. (Cost a bit)

Solution 4: Buy a new HomePod.

Solution 5: Find someone trustworthy that can repair it.(some listed in the comments)

Having the touch accommodation will not work on the long run as it gets worse.

Creating this mega thread so that the sub is not filled with the same questions over and over again!

My HomePod started playing music by itself yesterday. It happens randomly, and on one occasion it suddenly played at full volume. It plays music from Apple Music or Apple Radio even when my iPhone isn’t nearby.

I have already tried resetting the HomePod, setting it up again from scratch, and disabling Siri, but nothing has helped.

Please help

People have been saying for years now to wait for the next event for a 3rd gen. Are those people convinced it’s coming on September? Or is it going to be only the mini 2? Do you think they will wait at least 5 years for the current gen to release a new one like they did? What if there’s no 3rd gen refresh this fall? Will we go in the loop of “wait for 2027 wwdc” then when there’s nothing someone will say “it’s a dev conference, why did you expect new hardware”. What a vicious cycle!

Assuming there’s a new HomePod Mini 2, is it worth upgrading from the 1st one? I personally don’t use Siri a whole lot and HomePod Mini sounds great already. HomePod Mini 2 will just have a new chip, new speakers/better sound system, and Siri A.I. and it’ll most likely be priced at $130 or if not somewhere around there

I bought a used pair of HomePods on eBay, and this is my very first set of HomePod mini. Am I crazy, because I swear they started sounding better around the fourth day or so. Whenever I first plugged them in I was very unimpressed and after a couple days they just sound a lot better

Hi all,

Recently got my hands on two brand new unopened gen 1 HomePods. I had set them up yesterday around the evening time, and after work the next day (today) I realized they were both still configuring. Keep in mind I saw they were coming from 11.25 but it’s been almost 24 hours. I get you guys might laugh, but should I just continue to wait it out right? This is a huge jump, I just wanna make sure I’m not wasting time hoping it will finish configuring. Thanks so much.

Is anyone running the Beta 27 updates on their HomePods. How has general AirPlay performance been over 26? And since I am a Spotify user, has AirPlay performance improved on Spotify specifically?

I use a HomePod mini and an iPhone 17 Pro Max, is there any suggestions?