Music won't play on multiple HomePods iOS 15.0

I did have twice the popping noise, immediately after the speakers pauses.

I have an open case with Apple as well, they did replace one of the 3 HomePods.

They gave me a link to follow up if happens again… Will see what happens.

“I have an active issue open with Apple and have provided sysdiagnose info to them”

happy to do this, how do I go about this?

Literally having the same issues, I'm thinking to get a new router to try to solve it but I will be very disappointed if a new router does't help.

I am continuing to have the same issue after updating

I believe there seems to be a bug in this update. I could flawlessly airplay to multiple homepods over a week ago and lately is flakey af.

I have now reset both homepods (homepod and a homepod mini, not trying to stereo pair just airplay to them as a pair/together which was never an issue before) and still a problem. They are on 15.0 and my phone is on iPhone 13 pro max on 15.0.1. Had the same issue over a week ago with my iPhone X on 15.0.

I will play a song in music then airplay and select both pods, they take a second and join as two speakers then sometimes separate. Other times they look as to be playing as a two speaker set and both lit up but music will only play from one. Seems depending on which was selected first will be the one that plays fine and the other struggles.

Same when controlling from the home app or music app.

Again no issues before, all on same network, have reset both home pods. Will do a router power cycle to be sure but will update only if that changes things.

please fix :c

I have precisely the same issue. 5 OG HomePods, 2 HomePod mini. The OG HomePods cannot play multiple with anything except the minis. I have an active issue open with Apple and have provided sysdiagnose info to them, but it might help if others open a similar issue.

I can also add that I've cycled my router, limited the HomePods to both 2.4ghz and 5ghz — same results. I've attempted playing from multiple iPhone 13s and from my Macbook. Same thing. All HomePods have strong connections (laptop show 1300Mbps placed beside the HomePods).

There also seems to be a follow on effect, where after the HomePod has become "bugged" by trying to set it as the multiple, it will not work on its own for awhile afterwards.

Just as reported above, everything looks fine from the playing device, but the speaker does nothing. Oddly enough, they DO have their volume lights on, just no sound output.

I have 3 HomePods and 2 Minis with the same problems. I will start streaming with 3 HomePods. The App shows 3 playing HomePods, but only one plays real. After a little time the group are only single speakers.

Must we wait since an update?

I am also experiencing the same issue. When streaming from iPhone on iOS 15.1 to HomePods all on 15.1.1 only the first chosen HomePod will play, then any additional HomePods added will either stay selected while not playing (first HomePod always plays) or they will instantly disconnect. This issue first started for me on iOS 15 then was resolved in 15.0.1 then returned in 15.1. I’ve tried all fixed including removing and adding all HomePods, restarting iPhones, router…etc.