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homepod troubleshooting

  1. R

    HomePod I can't AirPlay to my new HomePod from Music App from my Mac

    Hello, I've just finished setting up my HomePod. Everything works fine, except when I try to use it as an AirPlay speaker from the Music app on my Mac. It keeps telling me that "only people who share a home in the Home app can control this speaker" (my translation, don't know if that's the...
  2. GIZBUG

    HomePod Account question when setting up HomePod

    I am the account "owner" if you will call it of the Home app on my iPhone. My wife was invited so she also has control over the Home app / smart devices in the house. However, when I initially setup the new HomePod, I tried to use her phone (as she has the more complex schedule, drive to work...
  3. M

    HomePod Sending messages on HomePod works 25% of time

    I am making this thread to see if anyone else is having similar issues with the HomePod personal request feature in particular sending text messages using the speaker. I have done extensive research, and I have come up with the goose egg. I have an iPhone X and it is on the same 5Ghz AC wireless...
  4. afir93

    HomePod ~0.5 second of additional delay when using HomePod from my iMac – any way around this issue?

    Now first of all, I know that AirPlay 1 has about 2 seconds of delay, and this is not the delay I'm talking about here. Usually when you stream from a Mac or iOS device to an AirPlay receiver, the OS will account for these two seconds and delay the video playback accordingly so that they are in...
  5. agurley94

    HomePod HomePod WiFi Problems

    Okay so I have royally screwed up my entire ecosystem of Apple products. The last several weeks my iPad has been unable to connect to my WiFi at home. I tried everything; resetting network settings on the iPad, changing my SSID and network password, I checked the blocked devices list for my...