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HomePod What my kid is listening to on their Homepod?
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Is the HomePod setup using yours or your kid’s AppleID? Who’s Apple Home is it placed in?
In my house, all the HomePods were setup using my AppleID and in the same Apple Home. I can see what’s playing on any HomePod by pressing on the HomePod tile in the Apple Home app or by the AirPlay platter in the Control Center. Go to “Control other speakers and TVs” at the bottom and it will show what’s playing on each device, at any time.
If she Airplayed from her phone to the HomePod, you can check under “Recently Played” in the Music app. If she’s just asking Siri locally on the HomePod, not sure there’s a way to check in that instance. I just tried asking my HomePod what the last song I played was and Siri responded, “I’m sorry, I don’t know the name of the song.”
I’m not here to tell you how to parent. Please don’t take this the wrong way and I don’t know how old your daughter is but if she’s living under your roof, you paid for that HomePod, she’s relatively young and you’re concerned with the content she’s consuming, consider maybe setting it up under your AppleID. My kids are 9 and 11 and my wife and I have complete control over all their devices under child accounts and parental controls. She will still have access to all her personal content with voice recognition.
I’m only mentioning because some people don’t know this exists or how it works. You see articles of kids raking up thousands of dollars in in-app purchases because the parents didn’t know how to control that. The parent end up footing the bill and Apple won’t reverse it.
No worries. I appreciate the advice and your tact. I've had a couple people on here just open a flamethrower and the civility is appreciated.
Kid is in the early teenage years so giving her some independence while still keeping an eye on things is proving tricky. When we got it she was just listening to music but now she's listening to some podcasts and what not so....ugh.
Parenting!
Might just look into moving it over to my apple ID.
I hear ya… I’m not quite there yet with mine but I’m sure it will be a blast when the time comes lol. Hope you can figure this all out or perhaps someone else will chime in with something else I haven’t mentioned or am aware about.
Precisely. Apple is very big on privacy. Without it being on your AppleID, as far as Apple knows, you’re just trying to invade someone else’s privacy. They don’t know this is YOUR kid that you’re trying to monitor.
There is also the option of confiscating your daughter’s devices lol. Mine are 10 and 11 years old. If there was something questionable going on, you’re damn right I’m auditing their stuff and this is not negotiable.