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homepod won’t set timers anymore

Has anyone else had the issue with HomePod, where it will not set timers anymore.

I have it in my kitchen and use it all the time for setting cooking timers and such.

But it seems like since one of the latest updates it dose not know what “set a timer” is anymore.

It just comes back and says. Just a sec, one more moment, hold the line please, sorry that was taking too long. But I seem to be. Able to set alarms fine, and anything else like ask other questions, the weather and play music.

It just doesn’t like the “set a timer” command anymore.

Tried uplugging, resetting. With no luck.


Yet “set a timer” works on all my other Apple devices, phones.

Any ideas?


thanks


HomePod, iOS 12

Posted on Apr 14, 2019 6:10 AM

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Apr 14, 2019 12:44 PM in response to jbty1

Mine does the same thing and it was before the update, I’ll ask to set a timer and it says “ I can’t set timers for a specific time, would you like to set an alarm instead?” Or it says ”hmmm, just one sec...”


a minute later ill ask again and it does it no problem. Or it says you already have a dinner timer would you like to replace it?”. After it just ignored this dinner timer!


It is indeed frustrating.


We should send feedback


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