Homepod mini handoff not working

I fed up. Tried everything (reset, reload, restore, resoft, reroute, rewifi, reBT, refack, etc). as result, my 11th still transfers only by Airplay. No NFC or U1 transfer, while before ios 14.4 NFC worked well.

At the same time my XR with 14.3 and 14.4 transfers by NFC and Airplay both WHATEWER I did around!

Thanks, friend. I also did 14.5 to HPmini, but no change. Instead, I got problem with stock ambient sounds (ocean, forest, rain, night, etc) - it cuts after 3-5 sec playing (sound cut, but playback goes). Strange, but last ambient sound WhiteNoise works well!

(XR keeps working with mini by NFC after 14.5 to mini).

I have a iPhone 12 Pro Max and having the same issue, handoff just doesn’t work, tried resetting both homepod and phone. Works for a bit then just stops. I often get a message saying the device is at its limit?! There’s only me with an iPhone in my house.

I was having the same issue with my HomePod mini. My iPhone was not transferring music to the HomePod mini and then I moved and changed internet providers with super fast speeds. Today I noticed it started transferring to the HomePod mini so it was my internet connection or the router that was giving me the issue. Today it’s working fine!!

I have found else where that this happens if you have 2.5ghz and 5ghz connections on your router. Your homepod may connect to 2.5ghz and you phone maybe on 5ghz. Solution is you turn one or the offer off in your router settings so all devices connect to the same. This has fixed my issue, although will give it a few days

Same problem, I have an iPhone XS Max and I can’t use NFC, just Airplay, it used to work before 14.4, my sister has a XR with 14.4 also, and she can use NFC and Airplay, it’s about iOS or what’s going on?, seriously I’m losing my mind!!

In my case it seemed it was the router and network which fixed the handoff feature.

I was living in a small town with slow wireless then moved to the city with 400mps and the handoff feature started working.

the handoff feature started working when I was listening to some music and put it next to the speaker and got a quick message to handoff - I was very surprised and not expecting the feature and thought it might be fixed in the next upgrade.

It works perfectly now, every time.

the only conclusion I can come up with is the network and router. There were no other changes.

Hello.

I had this same issue, too. But I found the solution. It's by disabling the airplane mode. Because when you turn on airplane mode, it seems like it blocks some function of the chip, not sure if it's a bug or is its design... So, Make sure you have 1) bluetooth on, 2) same wifi, 3)turn off airplane mode. Hope it can solve your problem.

Hello.

I had this same issue, too. But I found the solution. It's by disabling the airplane mode. Because when you turn on airplane mode, it seems like it blocks some function of the chip, not sure if it's a bug or is its design... So, Make sure you have 1) bluetooth on, 2) same wifi, 3)turn off airplane mode. Hope it can solve your problem.

Furthermore, it starts playing U2 music cause when you don't transferring music from your iPhone/MacBook or other support device, then the HomePod mini will search music automatically from your Apple Music library, and It can do this is because you log in your Apple ID in the HomePod mini.

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Hello. 

I had this same issue, too. But I found the solution. It's by disabling the airplane mode. Because when you turn on airplane mode, it seems like it blocks some function of the chip, not sure if it's a bug or is its design... So, Make sure you TURN OFF AIRPLANE MODE. It doesn’t matter if the bluetooth is one or with the same wifi spot.   Hope it can solve your problem. 

Updated to 14.2 sill no luck with hand off.

Make sure to invite them to use Home.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204753

See Play audio on HomePod using an iOS or iPadOS device - Apple Support and the section Hand off audio to HomePod.

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