Why do all my Homepods play the same music at different times after updating to IOS18? It doesn't happen in IOS17! There are more than 5 Homepods in my place. After I started to play for a while, maybe 3-5 songs, the audio does not sync anymore! It does like the delay time is a mess with the system!
HomePod, 18
still getting the sync issue on 18.1 anyone else ?
still getting the sync issue on 18.1 anyone else ?
Yes Same here I just spent all weekend rebuilding my HomePod network after this update broke the Sync - only to find it made absolutely no difference!! OS18 definitely the culprit- was fine before - even tried turning if lossless and Atmos but no change. I can live with slow Siri- but music not playing in sync literally defeats the point of having these speakers!
Same here after iOS18 and HomePod OS18. Located in Austria/Europe! And sometimes a crack in one of the speakers. Four HomePods 1st gen in use.
Still seeing this after 18.3 on OG HomePods + HomePod mini
Same, I basically have to just use a single HomePod gen 2 in my living room. I tried combo of different HomePods and soon as use 2 it goes out of sync.
For those who, like me, were hoping 18.3 would fix the sync issues, the answer is no. I had switched over to playing my downloaded music from my Mac instead of using Apple Music streaming. Still the very occasional abrupt end and false start, which setting the slider back to the beginning of the song fixed for another day or two. But no speakers going out of sync several times an hour.
My free trial of Apple Music ends on February 27. Unless this has been fixed by then, I'm canceling it before then. If I see from these boards that a future release has fixed it, I'll subscribe again. Yes, I have all of my pre-subscription music saved, so I won't lose anything.
Maybe someone else has better news?
The same problem appeared in OS17.0 and fixed in 17.2. But we have same problem now again.
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Factory reset doesn't work.
I just reported the bug. I brought out my sonos speakers and created a scene just as i did with homepods and no issues. Strictly a homepod ecosystem issue. The homepods have no correction between them. With all the mics on the homepods and listening for alarms and commands it cannot detect out of sync. Silly bug
Same for me. TERRIBLE bug that seems to throw off the sync between homepods completely. I had to turn off lossless and dolby atmos that used to work perfectly fine on 17. Speakers are also crackling and then stops playing. Hope it doesn’t damage any hardware. Can’t believe Apple passed this update. I’m better off using a JBL bluetooth speaker. No update yet one month in :(
I use three TP-Link Deco X25 in my place. It is mesh WiFi 6 system. The speed can go up to 1,800 Mbps. This is only Audio data. When many of my friends come to my place, they all can play 4K video smoothly. I believe the problem came from Apple Music with HomePod itself because when I tried Spotify, my HomePods work well. That’s so ironic. If it’s not for ALAC, I already stop my subscription of Apple Music.
After the MacOS Sequoia upgrade, the Apple Music app I use to sync with my Homepod Mini broke the speakers of my MBP 13’ M2 computer. There are crackling and popping sounds in some parts of every song.
It didn’t last for me. I’ve now separated mine and put one in a different room as I couldn’t stand the ‘stereo’ going repeatedly out of sync. The one down here keeps stopping playing and I have to press play on my phone. Sometime sit starts up, sometimes it doesn’t. If I’d not spent almost £200 I’d get rid and get Alexa. Apparently they work ok. I suppose I could keep my HomePod as a HomePod and buy different non Apple speakers.
It’s not your router. It’s Apple issues. Apple issues that they seem unable to resolve…
Same here, more than one homepod crashes after 1-2 songs
You can be sure that’s what everyone tried first. Even a reinitialization to factory defaults didn’t help. It truly is the update that’s problematic
really - the sound is good and for the most part everything else is working and responding but the sync is still broken for me - after like 4 / 5 songs it goes out of sync - so frustrating
Audio sync problem with multiple HomePod after update to IOS18
