HomePod fart sounds

Hello, I am glad I found your post as I am having the EXACT same problem. It appeared to have started on 14.6 and the problem has carried over to 14.7 with no resolve. I have tried removing accessory, resetting, hard resetting, setting up on another network, all with no fix. The sound (Brrrrrrrrrr) is so loud I fear it will damage the speaker. Apple should provide a fix for this as above poster has stated, this is NOT isolated and others are experiencing the same problem. That said, I have another 11 Homepods that are not esperiencing this problem. Apple should provide a fix OR exchange program for these bad Homepods. Anyone else experiencing this problem or know of anything else I should be trying? Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Part of me actually wishes my HomePod would make fart noises!

But in all seriousness, did this get fixed in HomePod Software Version 14.7, which came out 19 July?

Your post got me thinking about when it did start. I did a YouTube search for ‘HomePod fart’ and earliest video is from 24 April 2020, so that’s from the days of iOS 13.

https://youtu.be/gDZly4uiWg4

Hard to know whether it’s software or hardware (or an interaction between the two). You’d hope Apple would do the right thing and replace it. It may depend on where you live (and I’m not an expert on the subject), but you’d hope that consumer rights laws would say that a device like this should last for more than a few years.