HomePod OS 17 does not play song the was paused, it plays all music instead

UPDATE: I have found a workaround. Asking Siri to “Continue” will start playing where you had left off. You can also press and hold the top of the HomePod to activate Siri and say “continue”. It’s not as convenient. I’d still rather be able to just tap the top to resume, but at least it works for now.

Good news, homepod os17.1 update has solved the issue

Same here since installing iOS 17 on my original HomePod. Asking Siri to resume prevents the problem, but sometimes I just pass by my HomePod, forget the problem, and tap the touch interface to resume from where I left off, but that is not what happens.

This started for me around version 13 - along with other issues. I used to be able to pause a playlist indefinitely and a simple "Hey Siri, resume" would continue from wherever it left off. Ever since version 13.0, pausing for approximately 10 minutes or more will randomly cause the HomePod Mini to forget the playlist and song that was active. When the bug strikes, Siri will respond "One moment..." (or similar) and then start randomly shuffling through my entire library after a brief delay. Extremely frustrating because then I have to issue a "Hey Siri, shuffle my playlist XYZ" and deal with hearing repeats that I already heard earlier on. When is Apple going to fix this?

This is happening to me as well. First edition HomePod. After pausing the HomePod, I can see on my phone that it has paused the song, but pressing the top of the HomePod I get the cheerful response, "Here's a music station just for you," or whatever it says.

I have noticed that if I pause then tap a few seconds later, it actually resumes the song. Haven't done enough research to see how long in paused state will it switches to playing all music.

Hello,

Same issue here, after migration to os17, a basic functionality is completely broken

who did the test before running this version?

My homePod is not able to resume a radio station 5 minutes after it was set in pause , very practical

And worse, it is also not possible to use wake up automation with « resume audio »…

I also face same issue with the two hompod mini 2 of my father.

Could you please fix the issue quickly or offer the possibility to rollback the previous version?

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I am having the same issue. I can’t find a setting to change it anywhere. I did notice that in the Home app the HomePod will show that it is paused and you can see what song was playing, but as soon as I tap the top of the HomePod mini it plays something new.

Jeez, I hope this works for my Apple Watch, too. I don't know what Apple did to fubar how playlists work. I'm a runner, and I have some really long playlists that I like to just set to shuffle, start, and then run with over the next few days so I'm not listening to repeats. The latest WatchOS update wrecked that. Just as with your Homepods, the Music app on the watch forgets what playlist it was playing by the next day. Worse, the "shuffle" option is now buried beneath multiple taps.

You are not alone my friend! This happened a while back with a previous update...then it eventually corrected itself, at least on our system of three HomePods playing our Smooth Groove Jazz playlist that is about four days worth of music so far.

Now, with the recent iOS 17 update it's doing it again...we can't get through our playlist as we pass it at night then resume in the morning and it starts playing something else, then we have to start over again!

I wish someone from engineering was reading our woes here and fix this issue and stip messing with this pause and play feature in the future! ~W

It did fix it! But now anytime I ask Siri "play playlist ----" the response is "it looks like Apple Music can't play that". But it will play songs or albums and at least it starts from where it was paused now. Even if it's not a playlist I want to hear.....

YEs, so far so good as I paused our 4-day long Smooth Jazz playlist last night and when I said resume this morning it started at the song I paused at the night before...I will monitor and see if we can get a few days worth out of but so far so good...I hope this pause and play feature is working again for everyone on the discussion....take care all! ~W

Well gang, the party's over...at least for me. The recent iOS update helped for one day, that was it.

We only got one day of our 4-day smooth jazz playlist as I paused it last night after playing for one day on Shuffle and said to Siri "Resume" this morning and the HomePod started play Def Leopard. Now don't get me wrong, we do love Def Leopard, but we play smooth jazz all day long while we work and we work from home so that is a minimum of 14 hours per day. Really frustrated as imagine most of you all are too? ~W

Same here. Since 17 the homepods are unusable. The simplest thing to play music doesn't work anymore after 5 min. I'm going to buy a Sonos or so.

Till next update…

This is happening on all my HomePods since the update as well and is driving me insane. Previously on all of them (ever since I bought the first HomePod at release) you would just tell Siri to "play" and it would pick up at the last song that was playing in the playlist, even if it was days later. Now just minutes after pausing you tell it to play and you get some random "here's some music just for you". No, I want to continue the playlist I was listening to. I think it's Apple pushing the "just for you", which really doesn't work.