HomePod 15.2 Breaks Location Services

Finally figured it out!

What you need to do is update your iOS to 15.2

Once you do so, open the home app and you will get a pop up asking to enable location services for HomePod. You will also get the missing location services toggle in the home app.

Sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomePodMini/comments/rghdmb/updated_to_152_and_now_siri_has_forgotten_where/

[Link Edited by Moderator]

I’m having the same problem. After my 3 HomePods updated last night, they don’t seem to know where they are. I’ve reset, restarted, turned the ‘Location Services’ button on and off several times. It did work momentarily after I reset it, but as soon as it configured itself, Siri started asking where I wanted the weather conditions for again.

I'm having the exact same problem, started yesterday afternoon and I wasted my entire evening trying to troubleshoot this. It's extremely frustrating.

It's also confusing that there is no toggle for location services in the home settings, so I also can't follow the instructions given by Siri...

I woke up to the same problem. I did, however, find location services for HomePods in the Home app on my iPhone. Long press the icon for the HomePod. It will bring up a playback window. There is a gear icon at the bottom right corner. Press it and then scroll down to find Location services. I found that this problem has happened to others in the past and one fix was to turn location services off for ten seconds then turn it back on. That hasn't worked for me. I have restarted all of my HomePods through the Home app. That didn't fix it. I also restarted one by unplugging it and then plugging it back in. No help. My iPhone and Mac know where they are (tested that by bringing up Maps) so location services are working on them. I haven't rebooted my modem and router yet because, since the iPhone and Mac know their location, it most likely won't help. I will try that too later. I also updated my iPhone to iOS 15.2. That didn't help either. I have multiple HomePods, a mix of first generation and minis. HomePod OS 15.2 broke location services on all of them.

Okay. This is weird. I opened up the Home app to try updating my HomePods to 15.2 (even though they already show 15.2) and a dialog box was showing asking me if I wanted to turn on Location Services for all of my HomePods. Of course I did. I clicked the button and voila! I can ask for the temperature again. I've only tested that on one HomePod so far but I'm assuming that fixed the problem on all of them.

I’m having the same problem. I have an open ticket with Apple because they can’t figure it out either. ALL of my HomePods are up to date and I’ve even reset a few of them to factory settings hoping that would fix it. No luck. If anyone has any other suggestions I would appreciate it!

I’m in the same boat as Suzanne. All my devices are running 15.2, I’ve unplugged, used “restart” in Home App, toggled location services on/off, toggled personal requests on/off and nothing helps. The best I can get is that HomePod will IMMEDIATELY recognize my location after performing one of the steps above but quickly LOSES that location after a few minutes, returning the same “I can’t seem to find your location” message.

Had a call with Apple support, they viewed all my settings, could find nothing amiss, basically telling me perhaps the next software update would fix.

if anyone has any ideas, I sure would love to hear them. Thanks

Have an update. A couple of days ago I noticed Security/privacy WARNING on my iPhone’s WiFi connection. Oddly, none of my other iOS devices displayed this warning. Nevertheless I went online using my Router’s UID/PW, changed Router’s security settings, checked firmware, forced a reboot and when I checked my iPhone’s WiFi connection, the warning had disappeared.

Interestingly, the HomePod/Siri problem had also disappeared. HomePod/Siri is once again able to determine my location. It’s been that way for a couple of days now. Not sure if the two items are related but I'm posting because hopefully this might help others,

Yeah, those of us who can't and / or don't want to yet - sure hope Apple pulls their head out and fixes this, for everyone!

One guy back a way showed where the location services button is in Home app - but it isn't there, evidently, unless one updates OS first, so that doesn't help any.

No need to reply - just agreeing and venting.

Omar.hr—THANK YOU! I was about to “reset” my homepod in a field with a baseball bat.

Looks the like the option has moved. And my apologies if someone else posted this. Enable location services, not on the HomePod, but under home in the top left, then scroll all the way to the bottom.

Should be all the way at the bottom.

I have a scheduled call with them today. I’m sure they will tell me the same. 🙄 So annoyed with such a small glitch!

I don’t see a location services under home settings.