Apple Releases 12.4 Software for HomePod With Support for Taiwan and Japan Launch

[walstib]

Curious if you've reset your entire "Apple Home" automatons or fully rebuilt your Apple Home setup?

Actually, yes, I just did, although for a seemingly unrelated issue. So far, the password issue hasn’t reappeared, although it hasn’t been quite long enough to declare the problem solved.

I took my iPhone into the Apple store to have the screen replaced, and when I got home the entire Home setup was screwy. All kinds of accessories were missing. Maybe a coincidence, or maybe something happened at the Apple Store. I don’t know.

A similar thing happened about a year ago, like the home setup reverted to where it was several months prior.

This time I went for the nuclear option and ditched my 16-month-old Home setup, and created a new home with a different name.

I have two Hue bridges, and a bunch of other accessories — maybe 80 total — so starting from zero and building a new setup was a major pain that took days, what with scenes and everything.

So far, so good. Hopefully that solved the password issue for good.

I have found Apple’s HomePod/HomeKit support to be seriously lacking. It’s all geared toward basic nonsense, with nothing useful for folks with more complicated setups.


And next time my iPhone needs repair, I’ll be sure to disable the Home setting on the device, just in case.

 

[Hodar1]

What AppleTV do you own?

I have an AppleTV4 64GB that I'm hoping to pair with my first upcoming HomePod and curious if I'll be having remorseful thoughts after a purchase?



Curious if you've reset your entire "Apple Home" automatons or fully rebuilt your Apple Home setup?



That's good to know.

I own the 64 Gig 4K AppleTV.

 

[BarrettF77]

I have 7 HomePods (three stereo pairs, and a single in the guest room) and my biggest complaint is they continually require re-entering of my Apple password.

I’m not sure whether it’s a time thing, or what triggers it, but sure enough the HomePod icon in the Home app prompts me to enter my password. (I have different logins for iCloud and iTunes Store, and it wants passwords for both accounts.)

It’s a real pain. Anybody else experiencing this?

Hopefully it’s not a “security feature” and rather a bug that might actually be fixed sooner than later.

Been there done that. Same as you and it impacts those with a iCloud and iTunes Store being different. I've reported the bug to apple and they don't do anything about it. Long story short, the ONLY way to fix it as this pissed me off a long while is to delete your home from within the HomeKit app and start from scratch and set the home up again. I don't know what causes it, but I do know this fixes it.

When you do delete the "home" from within HomeKit app, all your HomePods will reboot and you'll hear all of them making that tone sound like when you first powered them on. Then go through and set each of the HomePods up again first and follow that with the rest of whatever you have in your home. You won't have the request prompting anymore.

I dealt with this for months and apple engineers did nothing or even respond except ask for more details. Basically from time to time their products require a clean install. This happens to be one of them. Hope that helps!