That’s a ridiculous amount of money to spend on not very good speakers lol. For that money, you could have a tremendous hifi system that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end.
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HomePod Users Complain of Sudden Failures, Could Be Linked to 14.6 and 15 Updates
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I have also been having issues with my mini and the 2 HomePods when I airplay from my Mac. The HomePods hooked up to the Apple TV as a stereo pair work fine, but for some reason, when playing music and sending it to them from my MacBook Air they lag/disconnect all the time.
Ditto for Alexa. I’ve got six Alexa (Echo) devices. All the hardware is pretty good, except for the Show 5 1st gen., but Alexa is as dumb as dirt. Occasionally they smarten her up a bit, but then she returns to being a moron with the next update! All these so-called AI systems seem more like Artificial Ignorance than Artificial Intelligence.
I lied. Reboot fixed it. Makes me a little nervous though...
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Everybody having a problem please call Apple support and report this issue. They claim they aren’t getting enough official reports of the problem. I just got off the phone with then and they are aware of this post on macrumors and other sites but without a mass call campaign of everyone affected they have no incentive to help.
My HomePod is making a sort of farting noise. Apple needs to fix this. There are too many failures for this to be isolated.
Having to call sucks, Apple should be logging connection issues.
Is that when quality is set to lossless? If so, I had the same issue. Normal quality is fine.
This isn't good...Apple get your stuff together and get a fix out.
Indeed.
Honestly shouldn’t be focussing on Reddit uses they just love to complain but no real good troubleshooting put into posts.
example
6+7+4 = 17 what happened to the other 2?
are 6 on beta but another 7 are??! Doesn’t make clear sense here.
that said this is a beta as such shouldn’t be complained about too much but reported with proper troubleshooting up towards Apple.
Indeed.
Honestly shouldn’t be focussing on Reddit uses they just love to complain but no real good troubleshooting put into posts.
example
6+7+4 = 17 what happened to the other 2?
are 6 on beta but another 7 are??! Doesn’t make clear sense here.
that said this is a beta as such shouldn’t be complained about too much but reported with proper troubleshooting up towards Apple.
have your HomePods been updated to the beta or is it use your iPhone or Mac or iPad? Need more detail specifically this is how troubleshooting works right now there’s a lot of holes or unknowns to others.
I do hope his 19 HomePods help with something. Like the people who drive really loud cars…
I had this happen to one of my HomePods too. I took it in for repair and they said all they could do was sell me a new HomePod Mini. Furious, I walked away and let them recycle my dead HomePod. If there turns out to be a fix for this with a future update, I’ll follow up with a replacement for sure.
A speaker should be lasting 5-10 years. Especially one priced in the premium range the OG HomePod was. I have two and am worried when one fails I’ll be SOL with my stereo pair as Apple won’t have any stock to replace it. I’ve had one die on me before that was constantly hot for no reason.
Yeah - I have 2 HomePods in stereo mode, and they’re quite good for listening on a causal audiophile level, but 19 HomePods works out to just over $6K USD. You could buy 2 Martin Logan Electromotions, and a NAIM XS 3 amp for that price. One hell of a system indeed!
I use mine so little that I wouldn't have noticed. The only indication I get that it's working at all is this random clicking noise that happens every now and then.
I have two of these and it's kinda concerning that they can't be purchased anymore, I'm out of warranty and random firmware updates are bricking them seemingly at random.
I bought one from Apple about 2 months ago. After owning it for about 40 days, I upgraded it to 14.6. It bricked it and gave it the red pulsing volume buttons and was unresponsive. I took it to Apple and they told me it would be $270 to repair it. So it became trash in less than 2 months.
Very true. I have a stereo pair and I´m very concerned as well. This shouldn´t be happening.
Yeah everyone needs to follow this advice! I am still waiting for the engineering team to get back about my case - I just checked in with the senior analyst on my case and mentioned now that all the apple sites are reporting on this issue for OS 14.6 and 15. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they start changing their stance on replacements.
That doesn't sound accurate. If you bought it from apple 2 months ago it will still have 10 months of warranty coverage remaining - which means no replacement fee.
Yeah but melodrama on a forum is worth more than warranty. To some anyway.
I’ve been reading that most people in this thread seem to have trouble with them either doing nothing or stereo-paired with an AppleTV. I have mine paired to a Mac mini. I haven’t personally noticed anything yet, but I definitely won’t be plugging them back in.
it was ten times the price, one tenth the functionality
Apple is so smug they couldn't see the obvious