Homepod mini handoff not working

The Hand Off function worked between my iPhone 12 Pro Max and HomePod Mini (Qty 2) with iOS 14.3.

Once the iOS 14.4 update was performed on both the iPhone 12 Pro Max and HomePod Mini (Qty 2) the Hand Off function is no longer working. A message is displayed the NO CONTROLS are available.

i can connect and listen to music when using AirPlay function.

hello, thanks for the test - it worked ONLY FOR THE PHONE CALL - that’s one point, the feature works ! BUT not to transfer music from iphone XS to Homepod mini with apple music nor Deezer... tried everything (toggle BT and wifi, reboot, reinstall...) i am stuck there and don’t understand why it would work with facetime audio or phone call but not with music !!! APPLE PLEASE HELP !

Updated to 14.2 sill no luck with hand off.

I’m pretty sure you have to leave fitness tracking “on” for it to keep working.

LoL. Handoff worked yesterday (I turned on Motion & Fitness) but today it stopped working again. I restarted the iPhone and the problem was fixed for now.

They obviously have some major bugs with the homepod mini handoff. I have done just about everything imaginable but can’t fix the problem. It works on my iphone pro 12 max but not my daughters iphone pro 12 max. I replaced a homepod mini thinking it was that then replaced a one week old phone until I realized its hopefully a software bug problem and not a hardware problem because then we are screwed if it is a hardware issue. Even with my phone its on and off again working so I hope they figure it out. The reason I purchase three homepod mini’s was for the handoff feature so I hope they figure it out soon. Im just surprised this wasnt caught in testing because I’m hearing about this all over the place, how could they possibly not have seen this?

Aside from the issue with Handoff, what is really annoying is that when you contact support (regardless of the issue), the answer is always, "Nope, never heard of this one before." There go two or so hours of your time jumping through hoops like a trained seal and taking your device apart like an over-filled closet. When you're off the phone, you're left to reconstitute the thing. More often than not, the problem is a software issue that only Apple can fix and yet they never admit it on the call. I love their products, have a ton of them, but these problems are happening on so many devices and so often that it's really getting hard to pony up the money for Apple because "It Just Works" because so often it doesn't.

Your exactly right, I had that same conversation a couple days ago regarding the homepod mini handoff problem, they say they never heard of the problem, I tell them theres thousands and thousands of the same problem and complaints on the forums. I tell them to go look, how can there be so many of these problems and you can pull up a million complaints about the homepod mini handoff but they havent heard of it. So what will happen it will magically disappear in an upcoming update and they wont say anything. And honestly Im sick and tired of the same old response, wipe your phone and restore as new and try it, if it resolves your problem put one app on at a time to see what may be affecting it...**** NO!!!...by time I would finish the next iphone will be out thats a non starter for me. They have to figure out a better way, develop a diagnostics on the phone that will determine problems instead of making us figure out what the problem is all the time.

Exactly the same issue. Got two homepod minis. With iPhone 12, handoff is not working on either. I had setup my phone from a previous backup.

Apple should release an update to fix this instead of asking us to reset the device.

I already did but if you read my message I said I spoke to them for over 5 hours on this problem but thanks for you suggestion about REVOLATION AND my ASTOUNDING insight, I really appreciate that someone even like you can see the astounding knowledge I have on this issue.

Mr. Czer, My comment regarding insight was not in response to your entry. It was a response to a prior entry suggesting that we need to "turn on wifi to use" Handoff. Yes, it was sarcastic, but I thought the offhanded wifi comment was ludicrous, especially in light of all that everyone here has written about the ongoing problems and frustration we are encountering with this issue.

We should all be so lucky. I'm not! It is still not working. I switched the Bluetooth toggle on and off until I was blue in the face, and still no Handoff. No working Handoff on the Mini nor on the original Home Pod. Enjoy your newly-working functionality. Let us know whether it continues to work or if the fix is just temporary.

I had the same problem with my HomePod mini. Apple send a replacement which had more problems, hands off didn't work, it would not connect to my devices and wouldn't reset either. After three weeks of gathering data from both HomePod mini and my iPhone and sending it to engineers at Apple, I sent it back. we tried with iPhone 12 Pro and 11 and used different networks. I basically followed all the recommendation provided in this forum with no results. There are definitely issues that apple needs to resolve either with software or hardware. I will try to buy one in a few months and hopefully the issue has been rectified.