Helpful to know. I have always thought that Siri should automatically increase her volume higher (pre-set %) above whatever music level is playing.
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How to Change Siri and Audio Volume on HomePod
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It can.
Open Home app.
Tap Automation
Tap +
Tap Add Automation
Tap A Time of Day Occurs
Set time/days, then Next
Choose your HomePod(s), then Next
Tap Audio, then Adjust Volume Only
Use the slider to adjust
Tap Back, then Done
Open Home app.
Tap Automation
Tap +
Tap Add Automation
Tap A Time of Day Occurs
Set time/days, then Next
Choose your HomePod(s), then Next
Tap Audio, then Adjust Volume Only
Use the slider to adjust
Tap Back, then Done
This is a great topic! I have been bugging Apple to separate Siri volume from Music volume for a long time. I moved my HomePod to my office at work shortly after I got it because Siri was always screaming at me. My dream was to use it at home but Siri ignored music volume and asking Siri to turn the lights down at night would wake up everyone in the house unless I was poised over it and hit the "-" before she started screaming. Even using Siri at work is a problem - "Hey Siri, tell me the news" is only useful if I can hit the "-" sign because she tells me the news very loudly and totally unrelated to the volume setting for music. I think Braderunner's post is very helpful but I look forward to the day when Siri volume can be separately adjusted.
LIES. The HomePod mini is the worst. Echo with Alexa is far superior. My mini purchase was a huge mistake. It’s unusable of a night time. I set Siri volume low, then if I make a request after it is at 57% volume even though my room is silent? I thought it was meant to recognise how loud to respond to requests… makes it unusable when I have neighbours.
Can’t even change music without it disturbing the whole house.
This is the most disappointed I’ve been in an apple product.
Can’t even change music without it disturbing the whole house.
This is the most disappointed I’ve been in an apple product.
Seems a verbose way of saying
- change Siri speaking volume by saying “hey Siri change speaking volume”
- change all volume by saying “hey Siri, change volume”.
Especially as the former doesn’t work.
- change Siri speaking volume by saying “hey Siri change speaking volume”
- change all volume by saying “hey Siri, change volume”.
Especially as the former doesn’t work.
Yes, I know. And it doesn’t work. Siri says it’s lowering its volume level but then immediately returns to where it was. There’s a discussion thread about this on Reddit, too, where this is confirmed to not work.
“Hey Siri, what is your speaking volume?”
“I’m at 61%”
“Hey Siri, change s speaking volume to 50%”
“Ok, I’ll dial it down”
“Hey Siri, what is your speaking volume?”
“I’m at 61%”
“I’m at 61%”
“Hey Siri, change s speaking volume to 50%”
“Ok, I’ll dial it down”
“Hey Siri, what is your speaking volume?”
“I’m at 61%”
Siri’s volume is the single most annoying thing about my HomePod Mini. I’ll say something quietly to my iPad or iPhone near me and she picks it up from another room and I can’t hear anything she is saying. Or I’ll ask my iPhone something only my iPhone can do and she’ll answer from the other room saying I need to use my iPhone. I figured buying the Mini would mean most of these issues would be worked out by now but they can’t even get something this simple right? The HomePod software team at Apple is definitely the B or maybe even C team from what I can tell. Why can’t we configure this crap using settings in the Home app?
The Homepod team, along with the Home app team, are the masters of missed opportunities. (not to mention how bad the UI is for the Home app)
I suggested a long long time ago about Siri responding at the volume spoken to. Or, as others have suggested just having some plain old settings to configure this stuff. It's like these teams haven't used the products they're creating.
I suggested a long long time ago about Siri responding at the volume spoken to. Or, as others have suggested just having some plain old settings to configure this stuff. It's like these teams haven't used the products they're creating.
And it’s like the couple of persons in this thread saying “great tip” haven’t actually tried it. 😆
THIS. It's our work around too. Our office is now a classroom. I have Siri's volume set to 15% during school hours during the week. Back to 80% (yep, that loud) at 4:30 during the week...
I spent many years in tanks while in the US Army, so my hearing is toast. Not to the point of needing/wanting hearing aids but still. I agree with you 100%, and I thank you for validating what I suspected. I couldn't tell whether this was the case, but you just confirmed it.
It's surprising how broken Siri volume control is. As others have noted, Siri will accept volume control commands and then promptly ignore them. I can tell her to set her volume to 100%, then immediately interrogate that volume level and get one of two results
1) She'll report some random volume at that volume level.
2) She'll report 100% volume at some low volume.
The failures go well beyond volume control. We have 10 HomePods and four HomePod Minis, acquired over three years. Not a one of them has every worked properly. I can walk between three HomePods in our Kitchen/Family Room area and ask Siri what time it is, and get three different answers.
1) It's 12:27PM
2) I'm sorry, I don't know where you are.
3) I'm having trouble connecting to the Internet
I can then ask each of the HomePods for the weather and get completely different results. The HomePod that wasn't able to connect to the Internet for time will give me a weather report... from the Internet. The one that gave me the correct time won't know where I am. The one that didn't know where I was will say she can't connect to the Internet.
I have been raising these issues with Apple Support for more than three years. Things are only getting worse.
1) She'll report some random volume at that volume level.
2) She'll report 100% volume at some low volume.
The failures go well beyond volume control. We have 10 HomePods and four HomePod Minis, acquired over three years. Not a one of them has every worked properly. I can walk between three HomePods in our Kitchen/Family Room area and ask Siri what time it is, and get three different answers.
1) It's 12:27PM
2) I'm sorry, I don't know where you are.
3) I'm having trouble connecting to the Internet
I can then ask each of the HomePods for the weather and get completely different results. The HomePod that wasn't able to connect to the Internet for time will give me a weather report... from the Internet. The one that gave me the correct time won't know where I am. The one that didn't know where I was will say she can't connect to the Internet.
I have been raising these issues with Apple Support for more than three years. Things are only getting worse.
I have always been really irritated that the HomePod can’t detect that I’m whispering and that she should whisper back instead of screaming “it’s four twenty-two AM!!!!!!” so that everyone within a city block now knows that i know what time it is.