IOS 14.6 HomeKit issues

Try disabling Home Hub support on each the the supported devices (Homepod Mini, AppleTV and iPad) to see if one of them is causing the problem.

I have never heard of it happen but the Homekit settings may have become corrupted and you might need to reset it and install all your devices again. But that is a last resort.

Sorry, Kestralsanmorn, you’ve missed the mark, unfortunately. I repeated the issue using a brand new Apple ID with a brand new iPhone on a never used Home App with one Apple certified accessory.

Clearly, Jean has done the same.

Apple has reviewed my logs and determined that they have a bug to fix.

Same problem here. I am finding that it takes two requests in order to successfully control an accessory. On making a request, Siri usually answers back a repeat of the previous command I issued and on my second attempt she will properly execute what I’m asking.

if you are controlling accessories in the same room as your HomePod, Siri doesn’t provide an audio prompt so it will just seem

Ike she is ignoring your request.

I finally called Apple Support to talk through the issue this evening. We did testing and he has taken logs from the HomePod and is sending them to engineering to analyze. We will talk again on Saturday.

Meanwhile, we ended up finding out that the issue DOES NOT occur if I use “turn on [light]” or “turn off [light]”. It only occurs when I say “[light] on” or “[light] off”

Using “turn on”/“turn off” may help if you’re experiencing the same problem as me.

edited to add - I reread your post above and see that you are already saying “turn on”/“turn off”. Did you call Apple and get them to run some tests and take some logs?

My experience had the AppleTV (have three in the house-no HomePod) getting all out of whack with HomeKit. All after the updates. The primary TV unit would not act as the main hub and the secondary AppleTV (older model) in the bedroom took over.

Room assignments got all wonky. Everything went to Default Room. Was able to move some to appropriate locations, but was unable to add “Entry” as a room so doorbell and lock could be assigned there. HomeKit just kept pushing devices to Default Room.

i don’t think it’s a HomePod issue so much as a TVOS issue with this last update. I base this largely on the fact that as soon as my iOS and MacOS devices updated, HomeKit blew away and had to be rebuilt after the TVOS devices were updated. And some things just haven’t come back well.

Hi, it seems you're using non certified accessories in your Home (I saw Harmony tiles that are not HomeKit certified for sure). So from there, don't look much more : with uncertified accessories, it can corrupt your HomeKit backup on iCloud, even if you create a new home, HomeKit remembers everything, you can't fool it : I've tried to add an old iPad to my ID Apple with HomeKit disconnected in iCloud settings : I was having Home notifications on this iPad. And my Home setup remembers of accessories or scenes I've deleted long time ago and restore them every time I connect a new Apple device to my home (yeah, very strange but it does each time...)

The only way to resolve your problem : on a new Apple ID, create your Home and don't add any non certified accessories. By the way, every device MUST be on last OS to operate correctly, even your Macs. If you can't upgrade to Big Sur, you'll have to disconnect it from your Apple ID if your want a properly working Home setup. HomeKit needs to have each Apple device on the very last operating system.

Good luck !

I just heard back from Apple Support. The analyst let me know that the engineers have filed a “bug report” after their work looking at the enhanced logs. He said I should watch for software updates, although it may be some time since 14.6 was only recently released.

I feel like this is a decent outcome to at least receive acknowledgement of a bug and an indication that they will work on it. I expected them to place the blame on my network or my WiFi configuration, but sounds like they are owning it.

Come on, Michael. Every third or fourth update to iOS blows away my settings in HomeKit. Every time, someone on this forum states they never heard of that happening before.

My home hub is my 4K AppleTV. The backup is a little older Apple TV. All devices in the home are up to date. But now I have to spend an entire day trying to get things back up.

Again.

Same type of problem. I don’t understand how they release something and not about this obvious problem. It’s clearly several problems. My Apple ID has been asked for no matter how many times i enter it. The only difference is my imac(which isn’t running iOS. In that case it won’t accept my Apple ID in Apple Music. My HomePod tells me that Apple Music has an issue. HomeKit won’t recognize my HomePod at all. It also says things like “HomePod doesn’t have a timer” and if i ask it to play something i have to ask several times. It’s such a mess and the rollout is so unclear. Some of the setting up was confusing which I’ve never had issue with in decades. They need to be working 24/7 to fix this.

Hi Jeanchrijaz, did you have any luck with Apple support? I had a follow up call on Saturday and the analyst had a request from the engineers to run the tests again with more enhanced logging.

last night I did some more testing by using a new Apple ID on a device with no Home installed yet. I plugged in a different WiFi router and connected one accessory in the new home. Same results which again points to the HomePod as the problem.

hoping to hear back from support soon regarding results of the analysis of the second set of logs.