HomePod Who else finally gave up with their HomePod?

[erihp]

Looks like 18.6 can consistently Play on all HomePods when using Scenes. I created a scene to play a particular playlist on all 10 HP. It has consistently worked since the update. The only issue is that some of the HP randomly drift out of sync with the rest of the HP playing. It does eventually corrects itself. Music will pause for up to 30 seconds to a minute on all of them, then start again in sync. Weird but it corrects the out of sync that can occur during the day. I have been doing this every day and just let them play all day up to 10 hours. Everyday it goes out of sync but it does the pause and play in sync again on its own.

its your wireless network.

 

[rforno]

For streaming in the home office, I have. I got sick of draining my iPhone battery streaming from it to the HomePod when my Echo Dot can play SiriusXM natively w/o need of the phone. SXM also doesn't repeatedly cut out, or need multiple attempts to start/stop like it does on HomePod.

 

[kagharaht]

So far so good with the new OS. No lags, drifting with sync... so far. Maybe they finally fixed this silly thing that has been problematic since version 15.

 

[numenorian]

Interesting, mine is even worse with Tahoe / Home OS 26. Before it would fail to connect, or say it was connected when it wasn't. Now it does that AND just stops playing every couple hours. Forget Siri, all I want is a simple AirPlay speaker and it can't even do that.

 

[bluraycinema]

Mine wouldn’t connect to my iPhone 17 Pro Max.

I then tried to cast my iPhone with my M4 Mac Mini after updated to Mac OS26 and it worked.

I then came across a YouTube video that showed how to do a soft reset on the iPhone, it worked!

That didn’t last long.
It just cut out on one speaker again.
It has reconnected though at the moment.

☹️

 

[MothJab]

Most of you need to upgrade your routers.

 

[Gengar]

What I can’t stand is that they have still not given us an option to turn the damn shuffle off by default. It’s so annoying when you tell it to play an album and it constantly defaults to a shuffled tracklist. Even now on HomePodOS 26.

Even when AirPlaying from a phone, it’ll automatically shuffle whatever you’re listening to, you always have to go back and turn it off.

 

[erihp]

What I can’t stand is that they have still not given us an option to turn the damn shuffle off by default. It’s so annoying when you tell it to play an album and it constantly defaults to a shuffled tracklist. Even now on HomePodOS 26.

Even when AirPlaying from a phone, it’ll automatically shuffle whatever you’re listening to, you always have to go back and turn it off.

I've not had this problem. When i tell my homepod to play an album (or a playlist I created) it plays them in the correct order, everytime.