AppleTV With iOS 16 No Longer Works With HomePods

[almostinsane]

Updated my AppleTV to iOS 16 a few weeks ago and the 2 Homepods I have as a stereo pair no longer work with it. I keep getting a "can't connect to Homepods, change device" popup". I updated the HomePods to iOS 16 beta and they still do not work. They worked just fine with iOS 15.x. WTF Apple? Your software has seriously gone to crap.

 

[Spotlighter9]

Try unpairing the HomePods from the AppleTV and then selecting "Restart" from the Apple TV "System" Settings Options, then re-pairing (no need to reset/restart the HomePods). If that doesn't work then perform hard reset of each HomePod (unpair from AppleTV>>unpair stereo setup>>unplug HomePod for 2 minutes>>plug in and hold your finger on the spinning white light until it is red and Siri says "your HomePod is about to reset, keep holding until you hear three beeps">>the bring your iPhone near to setup.

 

[almostinsane]

hmm, I'll give the hard reset a try. I've done the unpairing and rebooting quite a few times already with no luck.

 

[McScooby]

Get shot of beta software & you should have no probs. That’s the tradeoff either have issues with betas or not.

 

[almostinsane]

The hard reset worked perfectly! Great suggestion, thank you!