How can I stop HomePod mini from playing music automatically?

I have just bought a homepod mini last week. However it is troubling me as it played music spontaneously and unexpected from time to time.


After adding the homgpod using default settings, on Monday, I was working remotely on my job when the homepod mini suddenly started playing music. I was not listening to any music or video, since I prefer silence when working on more challenging tasks. My husband was not at home either. Luckily I was not on an office metting. How embrassing it could be otherwise?


Then again on Wednesday, at about 5am in the monrning, the homepod started playing music at a loud volume by itself, again. Everyone was in a deep sleep. My husband was woken up and walked to the living room to turn it off.


We have no pets of any sort and no automation for playing music. My husband was irritated. He uninstalled the entire Apple Music and iTunes from his phone.


Does it mean the device is malfunctioning? Is there a way to disable music permanently?


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Posted on Feb 21, 2024 9:14 PM

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Posted on Mar 1, 2024 6:42 AM

I am mad about the Homepod.


I have reset the homepod, I have only myself and husband in the home group, and allowed "only people sharing this home". We have no pets. We have no other people on our LAN/wifi or in our house.


Last Thursday during working hours, when I was the only living thing at home, and was in a complete silence. The homepod suddenly said "OK, start to play radio."


Last Saturday at 2am, we were both sleeping and Homepod started playing music at a loud volume.


Since then I had unplugged it to make sure we could sleep.


This morning I plugged it in and reset the Homepod again. At 1:35 am when no one was active the Homepod replied "OK play music from your library" and started playing.


I pushed on its top trying to stop it, but it kept resuming the music in a few seconds each time I pushed to stop it.


I said "Siri stop playing", and it complained "There's nothing to stop", yet resumed the music.


All this nonsense had to be termininated by unplugging it from the power.


I am mad about it. What a nuisance? Why is this thing so obsessed in playing music at midnight?

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Jul 23, 2024 10:58 AM in response to Serena_yu1

The factory default is for the HomePod to listen for

Siri

Or

Hey Siri


Sometimes the HomePod mini thinks it hears ‘Siri’. When there is no response, it will choose something to play in its own.


You need to set the HomePod mini to listen for only ‘Hey Siri


Go into the settings

Go to ‘Listen for Siri’


You will see 2 options


1. ‘Hey Siri’ or ‘Siri’

2 ‘Hey Siri’


Choose the second option

‘Hey Siri’


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Sep 29, 2024 7:18 AM in response to Prb541

THis does not work, I'm glad it worked for you but for the rest it does not, There is a huge group of people on Reddit, for whom the only thing that worked is disconnecting the touch screen cable. That's the only thing that worked for me as well.

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May 2, 2025 3:25 AM in response to Serena_yu1

This morning I turned it on and once powered on it just started to play music. phone, watch and ipad all off! Now putting the latest beta software on to see if that helps. So far, reset the device, reset all settings to factory, software updated = no change, fault still there. You can't really put up with this fault as its starts playing during the night, full volume, so it wakes everyone up, so turn it off / bin it is my suggestion.

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Aug 8, 2024 6:44 PM in response to ishaangarg

The solution is actually pretty simple.


The factory default is for the HomePod to listen for

Siri

Or

Hey Siri


Sometimes the HomePod mini thinks it hears ‘Siri’. When there is no response, it will choose something to play in its own.


You need to set the HomePod mini to listen for only ‘Hey Siri’


Go into the settings

Go to ‘Listen for Siri’


You will see 2 options


1. ‘Hey Siri’ or ‘Siri’

2 ‘Hey Siri’


Choose the second option

‘Hey Siri’


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