HomePod HomePod creeped me out this morning....

[Black Magic]

So it's interesting that you posted this. This morning my husband sent me a text to tell me that he was getting ready for work and the HomePod, completely unprompted, said "Good morning!"

I guess I am not alone in seeing this behavior.
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Does your house happen to be haunted? Probably just introducing herself

All kind of thoughts went through my head when I first heard Siri I can't lie.

 

[bigjnyc]

All of these smart speakers creep me out. I refuse to have something in my house that could potentially be listening to everything said at all times. I know the homepod allegedly only starts listening when you say "hey siri" I know... But just the fact that it has the potential to always be listening in, gives me the creeps.

 

[MiamiC70]

I’m sorry Dave I can’t do that right now

 

[AdamA9]

Does your house happen to be haunted? Probably just introducing herself

How awesome would that be. Siri is inadvertently the gap between us and another dimension.

All of these smart speakers creep me out. I refuse to have something in my house that could potentially be listening to everything said at all times. I know the homepod allegedly only starts listening when you say "hey siri" I know... But just the fact that it has the potential to always be listening in, gives me the creeps.

You do know this is no different from the Apple Watch, or your iPhone... I don't know how you can think otherwise.

 

[wsbsteven]

Mine just started playing Billy Holiday's "Strange Fruit" out of nowhere for my wife. She doesn't like that song and Siri didn't say anything before playing it. She is home alone.

 

[eltoslightfoot]

Do an experiment. Place your HomePod in a room with an Echo. See if they talk to each other.

THIS!!!!! Someone do this!!!!!

 

[bopajuice]

All of these smart speakers creep me out. I refuse to have something in my house that could potentially be listening to everything said at all times. I know the homepod allegedly only starts listening when you say "hey siri" I know... But just the fact that it has the potential to always be listening in, gives me the creeps.

If it only listens when you say "hey Siri" how does it know you said "hey Siri"? Has to be listening.

 

[TheBearman]

Ok, that's two.... for the second time since received/setup my HomePods have started talking out of the blue. The first time it was giving me distances to "something" (didn't say what) and a few seconds later repeated the response. The second time it said "ok, done" without a request. In both cases the TV was on so I'm thinking that some words, although not "Hey Siri", triggered this... maybe by just a specific frequency. Just odd...... By the way, the issue occurred both HomePods (I have 2) so I don't see this as a single device issue.

 

[Rogifan]

I had this happen to me once. It was in the middle of the night. All of a sudden Siri randomly says “Hi, I’m Siri” and starts listing off some of the things you can ask it on HomePod. Very odd.

 

[Krayzkat]

Maybe the HomePod can sense your iPhone/Apple Watch Bluetooth and therefore knows you are in the area?

 

[lsutigerfan1976]

This is one technology I will never invest in. A listening device for my home, no thanks. I was given an Amazon Echo Plus a few weeks ago as a freebie and promptly sold it for £110 which was cool. Something creeps me out about every word spoken in the home potentially being processed by a device linked to the internet.

Tin foil much???

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

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Tin foil much???

Thanks for such a constructive response. As you were.

 

[DB4AW]

So out of the blue around 6am, my HomePod spoke "Hey there". Nothing was talking at the time to kick off a Hey Siri response and that wasn't a response but more of a statement. Anyone else experience this?

HomePod is plugged in 24/7 so Siri gets lonely after so many hours of non-communication. Every now and then, she will spontaneously wake up and say “Hey there” or “Hello” or “What’s up” to remind you to talk to her. It’s not easy being a virtual assistant. You get taken for granted and sometimes forgotten. But you should be able to disable this feature.

 

[za9ra22]

Yesterday I was using an app on my Apple TV to airplay a radio station. I told Siri to stop when I went to bed and it stopped. In the middle of the night I was woken by the HomePod playing music, and had to get up and tell it to stop. It went silent. This morning, when I was about to leave the house, the HomePod started playing the same radio station as yesterday. In neither case did I give it an instruction, or get any voice feedback.

Clearly I need to go to the app on the Apple TV and stop the streaming from there, rather than at the HomePod, but the music in the middle of the night wasn't the radio station as far as I could tell.