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Apple Releases Updated 13.2.1 Software for HomePod After 13.2 Update Bricked Some Devices
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For me, the best HomePod feature is that it is totally autonomous. I don't need an app, phone, computer, etc. to day-to-day engage it (other than to initially set it up).
SW updates bricking devices.
Remember their mantra: anyone can code!
Remember their mantra: anyone can code!
You can "sort of" get there, using the Control Panel to control HomePod through the Music app on iPhone, but yeah - I don't understand why both the HomePod and the Watch have such lousy apps. Using the Watch app to move music or podcasts over is easily the worst part of the whole Watch experience.
Well they can probably fix it.
No the software softly brakes the HomePod. And way are customers terrible... that's a bit mean?
...if you meant customer service... then no that's great. If its broken they will swap them out.
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It is nuts that they didn't have a USB-C on this. For exactly this reason.
No the software softly brakes the HomePod. And way are customers terrible... that's a bit mean?
...if you meant customer service... then no that's great. If its broken they will swap them out.
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It is nuts that they didn't have a USB-C on this. For exactly this reason.
But what if you have one in your bedroom and your partner is in bed, asleep, and you get home and you want to play rain sounds while you get ready for bed...you can’t do that without speaking. Also, as far as I can tell, there’s no way to turn it on an make it play something specific (like say NPR for your dog) if you’re not home to talk to it.
Many HomePod owners heard Siri speak after the broken update:
I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it.
I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it.
when I go to the Home app it says on the top "Bedroom Homepod has update available" when I go to software update it shows 13.2.1 and on the bottom it says downloading and its spinning but the image of the gears is not moving which usually it does that when its actually downloading
When I first updated to iOS 13.2 on my iPhone and ran the Home app, it prompted me about (IIRC) adding multi-user voice recognition. I skipped that, since I had decided to stay away from the HomePod 13.2 update.
now that I’ve installed 13.2.1 on my HomePods, I cant find where to record my voice for the voice recognition. It used to be at the top of the “Home” app, but is no longer there. I can’t find it in settings. Does anyone know where this is?
now that I’ve installed 13.2.1 on my HomePods, I cant find where to record my voice for the voice recognition. It used to be at the top of the “Home” app, but is no longer there. I can’t find it in settings. Does anyone know where this is?
I can say "Hey Siri..." in my bedroom in a quiet voice and my HomePods out in the living room will hear me!
I survived the 13.2 and 13.2.1 updates (the latter was only 25MB for me, btw) but Siri still won’t recognize my wife’s voice. I deleted her from the home and re-invited her, checked “yes” on all the boxes, but Siri refuses to recognize her. What’s up?
But there’s still that 20% error rate where she plays the wrong song, says she can’t open that app, or says she can’t do that right now, and I can’t find a way to turn off her voice
So you don’t know? I’d guess they’d do that if they bricked even a few hundred. Who cares? Get over it.
It wasn’t recognizing the second person on mine but after a while it just started to.
Looks like the category is doing pretty well with 54% growth...may be a few HomePods in there...
You have to activate “Transfer to HomePod” in Settings > General > Airplay & Handoff on your iPhone with iOS 13.2
That was on and it wasn’t working.
I removed them from the home app (what bricked one when 13.2 was released) and re-added them and now it works.