HomePod OS 17.0 asking to accept terms & conditions

Ok, Apple - if you are listening - please reset your terms and conditions to apply to all devices when it's main user appleId accepts on any single device.

I'm not sure what did it exactly, but I forgot about my appletv device. It was also upgraded to V17. While everything worked everywhere and I never came to a terms and conditions page, I did 2 things last night: Managed to get my wife connected (is this new? Settings -> Users and Accounts -> additional Users), and went to the music app in the apple tv and just played something. One of those worked. Seems good today.

My issue was the same (need to approve terms&conditions) only that it affected exclusively the two paired homepod-minis serving the appletv, and not the other homepod-minis (all devices anyway running v17.0) which were working fine.

After spending hours on this (impossible to find how to approve the terms&conditions),

I solved it by unpairing those two homepod-minis, and pairing them again.

That was it, and now the Music flows again. No more questions asked about approval of terms and conditions!

You are a genius. I was ready to cancel everything Apple! I have two HomePod minis paired with my Apple TV. Every time I tried to ask Siri to play music on the HomePods, I would get that 'You must agree to Apple terms blah blah"--but how? I tried finding this mysterious agreement. I tried signing out of iCloud, unpairing everything etc etc. Every day, I try another stab at it and it makes me crazy.

Saw your answer just a few minutes ago. I went onto Apple TV and into the music app and played something--voila! I can play music on the minis again. Thank you!!!

Launch Apple Music on your Apple TV, press okay or any prompts on the screen and then you can turn it off. I'm not even a subscriber but this fixed my issue immediately! Homepod back to normal playing my radio stations. :)

On your Apple TV, open Music and select "Continue". Apple list new features and sometimes changes the terms and conditions after an update.

This is supremely annoying. Fix it Apple.

The problem looks to be when a HomePod is connected to an AppleTV as a connected speaker the primary Apple Music account needs to switch to their profile and open Apple Music and Press Continue to acknowledge updated terms. From there everything should work regardless of profile.

Thanks, needed this. In all seriousness, I'm pretty sure this is how the end will happen...by an innocent line of code that somebody won't know how to respond to fast enough. "Wait , why is that light on?" <BOOOM>

I too was having this issue.

I opened the music app on my ATV4K paired to my HomePods. There it had the blurb about the new features and I clicked continue. Everything worked after that.

Edit: I thought it worked… works for me now and still not for my wife 😠

Wish that Siri would just tell you exactly what to do instead of just being vague. Something like “open the music app on each of your devices and press continue”.

As a former Apple software engineer, I think it’s ridiculous that it doesn’t tell you exactly which device has the problem, or as others have suggested, give you the option to accept the terms once, on any device that’s convenient. I have about 20 different devices that I would need to check. Fortunately, it appears that the problem was Apple Music on the Apple TV paired to the HomePods in my case as well. My wife and daughter were starting to get upset with me.

This seems like a bug, and I’d recommend reporting it as such via the Feedback app.

this is the answer. thank you!

kaltat27 wrote:

Launch Apple Music on your Apple TV, press okay or any prompts on the screen and then you can turn it off. I'm not even a subscriber but this fixed my issue immediately! Homepod back to normal playing my radio stations. :)

This absolutely worked for me, I've been looking for a solution for weeks.

Maybe for your wife, she can login with her user on the Apple TV and check if she can use Apple Music. Solved it here.

I think this is a bug - I’m able to play music on our HomePod, with Siri requests; however, my husband gets this same error message. All of his Apple devices have been updated and Apple Music launched and works fine on each of them.