Homepod mini handoff not working

HI Community Here is an other observation from myside for whatever its worth! But the bottomline Apple has to address the underlying core issue with this feature..

• My phone iPhone SE 2020 was working great post factory reset, all fine
• Suddenly last couple days ago my HomePod mini lost wifi connectivity
• I tried to connect it with different wifi networks nothing was going thru
• I restored the HomePod connecting with my MacBook
• After all the hardwork :) setup was done and this time Handoff stopped working completely while my wife's phone continue to do handoff same phone same iOS version 14.3
• I decided to get my phone to DFU mode and reinstall all manually
• Once this is done, again my phone started behaving well with Handoff etc

I'm totally confused now, is it because of corporate profile restricting it later on after installation or any other application intruding? or another confusion I tried setting up my Phillips Hue system in between that swapped the IP address of HomePod due to which Home pod wasn't connecting to the wifi. Net-Net whatever may be it the system should be able to heal/isolate the issue rather end user struggling like this.

Please do SOMETHING APPLE we like this product and features and we would like to promote only if its all consistent!

I read all seven pages of this thread. I tried everything you guys suggested and more: Reset phone, HomePod Mini, logged out of iCloud, even went into my XFinity router and made sure peer to peer was working. Nothing fixed it. I was able to get the HomePod Mini to the point that it said it was having trouble connecting to the internet. I tweaked every setting on the XFINITY router that I could. I have an Airport Extreme hard-wired to the XFINITY modem/router. I reset the Home app, reset the HomePod Mini and added everything to the WiFi network putout from my Airport Extreme. I had been adding everything to the XFINITY router WiFi network. After switching to my AE, everything works perfectly now! All of my smart plugs now work properly too. Not sure for how long, but I am happy! (When I setup my HomePod Mini through the XFINITY router, it stated all functions may not work bc peer to peer is not enabled. Even though I enabled it)

FYI: I started having problems when I upgraded to an iPhone 12. Running OS 14.3 on both my iPhone 12 and HomePod mini.

Hi :)

I found another way:

on the Lock Screen, when something is playing (I used Coffitivity in Safari), click on the AirPlay icon on the player's right side. Under SPEAKERS & TVS, choose a scene of your Home Pod mini.

Also, I am not sure that is a reason too but check Wi-Fi visibility. I guess a Home Pod mini experiences troubles when the network is hidden.

I hope you can enjoy your little device in full now :)

i have an XR and mine works (to my surprise, because they said handoff would work only for iPhone 11 and up). My roommates iPhone 11 doesn’t work but that’s maybe cause I’m the one that set it up?

You’re right. Spotify & handoff work for me now after the update to 14.2

You need to turn on wifi to use it.

Working solution for me was:

• disable handoff and homepod transfer iPhone settings
• restart homepod & iPhone
• enable handoff and transfer on iphone