HomePod Is my HomePod Mini broken?

[ThunderRoad]

All I want to do it play some music or a podcast on my iPhone, and then pass it off to the HomePod so it plays on there and I control it through my phone.

However, I can pretty much never connect what I'm playing on my iPhone to the HomePod. The handoff gesture doesn't work and neither does selecting the HomePod from the AirPlay menu on my iPhone. I can say "Hey Siri" and get the speaker to play my music that way just fine.

I use the HomePod in many different rooms of my house so I frequently unplug it and have to plug it back in. Does that affect it's performance somehow? Both my iPhone and HomePod are also updated.

This is the first bad experience I've had with an Apple product. Bad to the extent that almost any random bluetooth speaker on the market would be an improvement.

 

[StumpyBloke]

This feature has never worked correctly and still doesn’t (for many). Check out Brandon Butch’s videos on iOS 15.x. He has mentioned it dozens of times as it’s an important feature for him and still doesn’t work. A bit like all of Apple’s software currently…crap!

 

[Riffbear]

These are crap!! I bought 2 today and are already packed up to be returned. Hand off worked fine on one of them and the other would play a totally different song! Back to my Sonos speaker.