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My HomePod minis suddenly start playing without any of my devices initiating music. I cannot tell what device is causing it (have iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro). Questions: How to find out which device is playing to the speakers and how to stop spontaneous play. It is clearly playing tunes from my iTunes device based library (not a member of any music streaming service).
Thanks
It might be using handoff. You can disable this feature if you don’t use it:
Go to Settings > General > AirPlay & Handoff, then turn off Handoff.
Or turn it off , close the settings App. restart your phone then once it restarts turn it back on
Additionally, you can also restart the HomePod:
Open the Home App - Long press on the HomePod icon to bring up settings, scroll down to the gear icon, tap that, scroll to the bottom to Reset HomePod - then select Restart HomePod
It might be using handoff. You can disable this feature if you don’t use it:
Go to Settings > General > AirPlay & Handoff, then turn off Handoff.
Or turn it off , close the settings App. restart your phone then once it restarts turn it back on
Additionally, you can also restart the HomePod:
Open the Home App - Long press on the HomePod icon to bring up settings, scroll down to the gear icon, tap that, scroll to the bottom to Reset HomePod - then select Restart HomePod
On your devices look in the music app to see if the “now playing” song is what’s playing via AirPlay. If it’s not AirPlaying, it’s doing it on its own and may have been inadvertently touched on the top to resume play or misheard a hey Siri command
Thanks for your thoughts. Really frustrating
Music app is not playing. Here's another clue, seems to happen when I have my iPhone close to one of the minis.
You nailed it! Discovered I was accidentally touching the top. Never would have solved the problem without your comment.
homepod mini plays spontanerouly
