HomeKit Invitation Spinning Wheel of Death

Homekit invite fails and breaks the home entirely I know there has been a LOT of discussion of HomeKit problems on the forums. However, I wanted to share a screenshot along with an explanation, and see if it triggers any new ideas. I recently set up a home to include my Apple TVs, my one HomePod mini, and my Ecobee thermostat. Setup was all very simple and went just fine. However, everything after that didn't. Details that might help are to follow: I am using iCloud family sharing with myself, my wife, and a universal account for my kids iPads. I set up the home on my iPhone 12 on IOS 14.6 using my iCloud account. I then proceeded to invite my wife using her iCloud account that I chose from the "family" list within the "Invite People" list. The invite popped up immediately on my wife's iPad. However, what I clicked accept, that's where things went wrong. Here's what happens: On my iPhone, her icon immediately disappeared from the "People" list. On her iPad, the Home app hung for a long time on "Accepting Invitation". Then, on my iPhone I lost all admin privileges to the home. At the same time, her iPad simply said "There was an error accepting the invitation" The most important bit of this might be in the following screenshot though. After I lose all control of the home, this is what I see when I click on my icon in the "People" list. Notice the part below my name.... what on earth?! It seems like it is accidentally trying to transfer the entire home to my wife's iCloud account, rather than inviting her as a guest?? Has anyone ran into this before? Might this help an Apple engineer that looks at this have an idea of something to look for? The problem only happens between my wife's account and my own. I can add my kids universal account just fine. Yes, before everyone asks, I have rebooted everything and signed out of iCloud and back in and done all of those usual things. I even had a call with Apple, but didn't have any luck getting very far. [Image Edited by Moderator to Remove Personal Information]

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Home sharing invite "merges" invited user account with the owner account Hi, I'm trying to set up a Home account for my family and experiencing bizarre behavior. Every time I invite my son to the newly created home account two storage behaviors occur: He is getting the invite from my @icloud.com alias instead of my apple id (although I don't have that account logged in anywhere) Once he accepts the invite, my user suddenly disappears from the home account and his account appears as another user with his apple id but my media apple id. This behavior doesn't happen with any of the other residents that I invite, they are getting it from my correct apple id and are added without any issues. I tried to check if there is anything strange in my apple id account or his apple id account but couldn't find anything. This behavior occurs also when I try to invite him from my mac so it's not an app/iPhone-specific issue (although I did delete the app and reinstalled it just in case) Any clue or suggestion will be highly appreciated.

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Problem sharing Homekit home with my wife specifically I'm having issues sharing my homekit home with my wife. When I send her an invite to my home in the home app everything seems fine until she accepts the invite. On her side the app says it cannot accept the invite. On my side I'm no longer the admin of my home, just a guest. Under "people" I can see my name is still there (hers is gone) and if I click on my picture/name, it shows my name BUT her email adress!? Somehow the accounts link together and leave everyone outside the home... I have tried this from her side aswell, her inviting me, but the same thing happens. I cannot accept, her name is still there but with my email adress. I've tried from different devices (My ipad, her iPad) but with the same result. If I invite my kid everything works just fine... We are both running iOS 13.3.1. I've also tried loggin in and out of our icloud accounts but with no luck. It's really frustrating and getting this going is something I've been really amped about, but this has made me really disappointed..! PLEASE HELP!

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HomeKit Invitation Spinning Wheel of Death

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