Mine did the same, but only when I opened them in Home. I had not initiated an update, but started as soon as I opened the settings on one HomePod. It automatically updated all three, I found this was very unusual, they should not have updated automatically.
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Apple Releases Updated 13.2.1 Software for HomePod After 13.2 Update Bricked Some Devices
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@penajmz I'm having the handoff issue. What did you remove from the home app and re-add to get it to work?
I had my homepod updated to 13.2.1 and the update installed OK. I haven't setup multiple users for other family members yet, so that remains to be seen.
Ambient sounds and handoff is working perfectly.
I did notice that HomePod is now unable to tell me its volume when I ask where it is set at. I feel like there will be many more patches coming.
Ambient sounds and handoff is working perfectly.
I did notice that HomePod is now unable to tell me its volume when I ask where it is set at. I feel like there will be many more patches coming.
Is anyone having difficulty getting the HomePod to play Playlists via Siri since the 13.2.1 update?
I can say "Hey Siri, play the playlist SoAndSo" to my iPad and it will. Saying the same to the HomePod will respond with "I am sorry I can't find SoAndSo in your Music".
The HomePod will play individual songs and albums but not playlists. It worked previously on the version before 13.2.1 and I do have an active iTunes match subscription.
I can say "Hey Siri, play the playlist SoAndSo" to my iPad and it will. Saying the same to the HomePod will respond with "I am sorry I can't find SoAndSo in your Music".
The HomePod will play individual songs and albums but not playlists. It worked previously on the version before 13.2.1 and I do have an active iTunes match subscription.
Just tried "Hey Siri, play the playlist My Top Rated", and it worked. Stereo paired HomePods running 13.2.1, did NOT previously update to 13.2; manually unpaired, individually updated to 13.2.1, and re-paired; have Apple Music subscription. The iPhone principally associated with them (where I enabled voice recognition) is an iPhone X running iOS 13.2. I haven't had any reason to reset the HomePods since the update, so I haven't.
It does concern me that there are a lot of complaints of certain Siri commands not working for some people, but working for others; usually, computers should behave consistently (although complexity and/or AI may make the consistency hard to recognize). Either it's sensitive to certain particular combinations of circumstances (update order, subscriptions, a setting, something on the iPhone used to set them up maybe?) that's non-obvious, or to particular voices or erratic networks or something along those lines. The only one I've seen consistently is that a cranky network will cause all sorts of Siri and HomePod issues, since most of the work gets done on Apple servers.
Thanks for the extra info. After 30 mins on the phone, the Apple Support Tech has had to escalate and will call back in a couple of days.
For me at least, the command mentioning a playlist works on the iPad Siri but not the HomePod Siri so we were both scratching our heads since it was fine yesterday.
For me at least, the command mentioning a playlist works on the iPad Siri but not the HomePod Siri so we were both scratching our heads since it was fine yesterday.
Just asked Siri to play two playlists on shuffle and no issues. I cannot figure out iPhone to HomePod handoff for the life of me. On all latest software updates and using iPhone 11 Pro Max. Any ideas?
I can handoff either by selecting a different output device in the Music app (which previously played via AirPlay from the iPhone, but now once switched plays directly on the HomePod; probably that only works with certain apps, in particular Music, and then for library stuff only with iTunes Match or Apple Music), or by proximity. HomePods updated individually to 13.2.1 (without previous 13.2); iPhone X running iOS 13.2. I may have toggled the Settings -> General -> AirPlay & Handoff -> Transfer to HomePod and Handoff toggles off and back on again, but probably did that before trying handoff, just to be sure it'd work, given reports.
All in all, the only thing I'm not happy about is that Siri stubbornly refuses to correctly recognize "play radio station WCBM" or any variant for that station that I've tried (works for other radio stations I'm interested in that I've tried so far, although I may have to say something like "play radio station 105.9 FM WMAL"), although I can work around by searching for it on the iPhone and then transferring play to the HomePods. At least that's an improvement, 'cause it doesn't run down iPhone's battery or require it to keep the Music app running on it.
if I had knows
it doesn’t even work properly in English.. forget multi language support..
google is running circles around Siri.
last night a friend ask to google home “at what age does a baby sit”, I was shocked when it answered reading from a website.
came home, tried with Siri, “hmmmmm I can’t get that answer on HomePod”
tried on the phone, got a list of websites.
It is just light years ahead. Period.
Multi language support also works like a charm on google assistant.
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It is interesting how few languages HomePod supports compared to Siri on other devices (which at least as of a couple years ago had a lot compared to Alexa or even Google Home). Maybe the rather low amount of RAM and flash on the HomePods has something to do with it; granted that the bulk of the processing happens on Apple's servers, some of it has to be local; at the very least, recognizing the language equivalent of "hey Siri". Getting that right enough to minimize false activations in a lot of languages may be tough with the limited resources on the HomePod.
Agree.
I still find it interesting that Spotify works with siri in iOS 13 on my iPhone, but not on my HomePod. Just give me Spotify on my HomePod dammit!
updated to 13.2.1; now homepod can't find playlists
me too.
more than slightly annoying
me too.
more than slightly annoying
I got this working. I wasn't recognising me or my wife. I noticed iCloud.com thought the two paired HomePods were on iOS 12. I refreshed both the speakers in appleid.apple.com a few times, the right one then registered as iOS 13, but the left one did not. It was the left one taking Siri commands. I unpaired them and selected the Right one in the Home app and then asked it to pair with the left one. The right one then took charge, and recognises me. I've yet to get my wife to try, but certainly fixed it for me.
So for me, getting the one that iCloud knew to be iOS 13 to handle Siri. I'm thinking the voice profile is handed over through iCloud, and that won't work while iCloud thinks you're on 12.
Hope this helps someone!
The only issue I had was getting the Pods to recognise an existing member of the Home group, when they set to recognise my voice on their device but was not showing on the set up device. I tried cycling settings, restarting iPhone, HomePods to no avail, but then removed that person, then added them again and their setting synced across and now HomePods recognise all.
Has anyone got voice recognition to work? You can test by asking Siri “Who am I?” or “What’s my name”, but she always says that she can’t recognise either of us and to turn it on in the Home app. Have turned it off and on a few times. There’s even some little introduction slides that tell you about it.
works fine for us. Make sure personal requests and Hey Siri is on for all users in the house. If Hey Siri wasn’t already set up for any users it will walk you through the same set up for the HomePod.
if there're betas that so many HomeBricked than ever and with Apple Policy not warranty over beta testing
What they should have done and the same with the Apple TV 4K is put a usb or lightning connector port so that the device could be restored though iTunes OR as it is None maOS Catalina
I can say "Hey Siri, play the playlist SoAndSo" to my iPad and it will. Saying the same to the HomePod will respond with "I am sorry I can't find SoAndSo in your Music".
found a solution
for some unknown reason my Apple Music subscription got cancelled. signing up again solved the missing playlist problem
found a solution
for some unknown reason my Apple Music subscription got cancelled. signing up again solved the missing playlist problem