After 13.2.1 HomePod no longer plays my radio station from tunein!

I'm sure I heard we were supposed to get more choice with Internet Radio with the new update, not less. As it happens I've found a workaround using the new handoff feature that should let you play any stream you can find on your iOS device. See iTunes | Internet Radio for the list of stations that can be found in iTunes, try https://www.internet-radio.com/, or visit the station's website and find its link in Safari on your device, then bring your device to the HomePod and it should take over. You should be able to add the station URL as a bookmark on your device.

Ah, turns out it works as AirPlay rather than a true handoff but perhaps better than nothing.

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read this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250822297 The problem is due to the homeapp voice recognisation setting. Turn it off, you should be able to stream it as below but note that personal requests like siri shortcuts etc will not work until to set the voice recognisation on again.. So you need to turn it on and off as needed to get the radio streaming request and personal requests to work

read this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250822297 The problem is due to the homeapp voice recognisation setting. Turn it off, you should be able to stream it as below but note that personal requests like siri shortcuts etc will not work until to set the voice recognisation on again.. So you need to turn it on and off as needed to get the radio streaming request and personal requests to work

I have the same issue as Alfonso - some of my radio stations from TuneIn cannot be recognised by Siri on Homepod. I got the same error response from Homepod as Alfonso.

The main issue is, putting the handoff aside, previously we could just speak to Siri on homepod to stream the radio station without having to touch the phone. Is totally independent. You can even lay down in your bed and request it verbally from homepod and it will just stream. Now, this is totally gone... is really sucks!

putting handoff feature aside, before 13.2.1, you can simply do a verbal request to homepod to stream a radio station from Tunein without involving the home. You can even lay down in your bed and do a verbal request to Homepod without any phone or action. Is very cool. Now it cannot be done. This is really sucks with Apple, doing patches and patches and break other areas!

Same problem. Stations it used to play aren’t accessible. I can get it to play some stations, most frequently if I use numbers (i.e. 90.7) in addition to letters. My favorite stations don’t have numbers, though.

So let me get this straight:

With 13.1, Apple introduces radio stations accessible via Siri on HomePod, just to “break” this functionality with 13.2 when introducing “recognize voice” ?

It’s pretty much par for the course for Apple in the past years. Every new feature breaks some older feature, without any fair warning or good explanation.

Incredibly frustrating for users.

Does QA still exist at Apple ?

13.2 initial release for homepod actually broke the physical equipment when resetting the homepod... the damaged equipment would need to returned to apple for a new replacement unit. After 13.2, next day, 13.2.1 was released to patch the resetting issue. Everything was fine with the Tunein Radio independent request to Siri (without involving the phone) before 13.2.1. Right after 13.2.1 release, some Tunein Radio cannot be requested independent - narrowed down to the homeapp voice recognization setting...

I was wondering too about the QA/testing of the software release, seems lagging here.....

Settings > General > Handoff. See Use Handoff with iPhone - Apple Support.

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Use Feedback - HomePod - Apple to let Apple know what you want.

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i have the same issue

It suppose to support radio stations from TuneIn... some radio stations are only available in TuneIn....so the internet-radio.com link does not help

ha... we now got the answer here on the development and testing quality of iOS 13

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-21/apple-ios-14-features-changes-testing-after-ios-13-bugs