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As said, there is a static and crackling sound lasting up to 5 seconds when I’m playing music from Spotify on my HomePod Mini. It comes up every couple of minutes and then music resumes playing normally. So far I had no issues, and after this emerged, I updated all softwares to latest versions and updated the Spotify app. Any ideas what to do next?
HomePod mini, 18
I can no longer reliably use any of my HomePods with OS18. I have two homes in two countries with more than 8 HomePods at each site. After upgrading to OS18, it's not possible to reliably listen to music:
It goes without saying that these bugs destroy any listening pleasure using HomePods with OS18. Such a shame.
Mine started buzzing again at 12:50 today. I'm real disappointed to hear that 18.1 didn't resolve it. This is very frustrating.
Such a shame. My minis all crackling now and disconnecting and also echoing each other my large HomePods also disconnect or don’t respond to commands HomePod two and HomePod ones
All units are already running on 18.1.
The issue does not get fixed by that update.
I’m trying an experiment. Since my HomePod minis are in different rooms and only one of them has the static issue I have swapped their locations to rule out any external interference. I haven’t had any static since their locations were swapped. It seems like powering them off helps with the static, such that it’s a couple of days until it happens again. Hopefully, 18.1 will have a fix in it, but it might not.
You can check the state of the software of your HomePod Minis through the iOS Home App. If they are behind in software you can initiate a software update through the same app as well. Hope this help!
Excellent troubleshooting!
I had locked the 5GHz band on my router to 20MHz a little more than a week ago, and it seemed more stable for a few hours but then the issue reappeared.
I would second the advice to open a support ticket with Apple. The more noise we make, the more likely it will be that our HomePods will soon make less noise.
Yes, had high hopes for the update to 18.1 which seemed quite a lengthy one when installing on homepods last night. Disappointed and angry when the first song I played afterwards was ruined by humming and buzzing feedback again.
Come on Apple. Improvements in the homepod experience and its stability have always been a painfully slow process, but this current issue is a huge step backwards.
I updated last night and so far have had no issues. Thanks Apple for getting on the issue in an expedient manner.
How were able to update? Are you using 18.1?
Had the same result then 1 day later the crackling was back
😂
Same here, it annoying
Please update your HomePods to 18.1 to see if this issue is resolved.
Having this same issue! And it sucks that I can’t just access HomePods to restart etc without the home app which doesn’t seem like it’s integrated properly.
Read this article today and thought I'd share:
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-fixed-my-airplay-speaker-not-playing-apple-music-from-a-mac/
Static and crackling sound on HomePod Mini
