HomePod stopped controlling my Philip’s Hues Lighhts

Do you have the Hue App? It’s much easier to resolve issues with that app.

Mine showed something needed to be fixed in Settings. It was a Homekit & Siri issue. I clicked on that and it said there was a mismatch do I want to update, so I updated it. You just click update and it’s done for you. Settings in the Hue App always tells you what needs to be fixed.

• If not. Look in your home App in rooms, where your bulbs are and see if it says “no response”. They might be offline, try rebooting the wifi modem.
• Update your iOS software

My Hue App:

As to your other issues not finding your iPhone. This can be a wifi or iCloud issue. On your phone in settings- general - reset- reset network settings

Make sure location is on

.- In settings - Your name- scroll down to Find My and make sure Share My Location is on . If it was on, toggle it off, then toggle back on .

You have an alert in your account. Long press on your master bedroom HomePod to bring up settings, in the lower right, tap the gear icon and scroll down to your account under MUSIC & PODCASTS, sign out then sign back in Or it may just be asking for a password to be entered

Did you recently change your password?

Ok go into settings on your phone- your name right at the top. Tap that. It might ask you to sign in. Do that. Or scroll all the way down to sign out . Then sign back in. Make sure it’s the same ID in your home app as previously instructed

The HomePod doing as you ask always depends on being on the same home wifi network and signed into the same Apple ID on the device you set HomePod up with. If you recently got a new phone, you need to reset homepod and set up homepod again using the new phone. Keychain and Bluetooth needs to be on as well. If you didn’t get a new phone perhaps it updated the software and you needed to sign back into iCloud.

It sounds as if you probably need to sign out of your account and then sign in again. Alternatively you may need to reset the HomePod.

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