HomePod OS 17.0 asking to accept terms & conditions

Thank you!!!!!

I think just opening Apple Music on my Apple TV solved my problem, which was so annoying. it kept saying you need to accept the terms and conditions for all of your devices. I’ve been like oh s*** but now my HomePod is playing some music

This has happened to me several times - every update it seems, very frustrating. The fix turned out to be easy, figuring out how to fix the problem - infuriating and time consuming. One would have thought Apple could have fixed this issue by now or at the very least have Siri provide instructions that were actually helpful….

Anyway, moaning over, after the software update, I opened up Apple Music on my Apple TV, it asked me to accept something resembling terms and conditions, which I did and played some music for 30secs to make sure it worked. Then turned the Apple TV off and asked Siri to play music on my HomePod. She thought about it for a little longer than normal, but then launched into a playlist. Problem solved - until next software update…

This was extremely frustrating — checked all my iPads, iPhones even signed in on my Mac into iTunes incase there was something I was missing. Reset the home Pod multiple of times. Even removed the HomePod and still no joy. Even went into the Apple Settings on the AppleTV to select the T&Cs but nothing there.

This had been going on for several days. Until I read about the Opening Apple Music on the TV.

Surely there is a much easier and simpler way to make this better for users.

Hi Friends,

I found a solution that does not require unpairing!

Odds are that most of us here have an Apple TV. Ensure on each Apple TV device that you have opened the Music app and clicked through the Welcome splash screen. After doing this on my main Bedroom TV, the issue was resolved instantly.

Cheers :)

Excellent! Same problem. Opening Music on the AppleTV seems to have fixed the problem.

I simply opened Music on the AppleTV and then just asked Siri to play something, voila!, music everywhere!

To clarify, all I did was OPEN the Music app on the Apple TV. Turning off the TV kept the music playing!

THIS DID THE TRICK. Nothing else worked. I needed to swap profiles to my wife’s (after connecting in the Settings) and then open Apple Music and it had an intro to Apple Music thing, and I had to hit Continue.

Thank you!

It seems to be related to anything that's connected to Apple TV. I have an original HomePod and two HomePod Minis for the living room that is playing Apple TV. None of them is paired as a stereo set. I can reboot AppleTV to get it to work, but that's not an applicable fix. Apple needs to do something better than this. It's annoying.

My fix was to do with the Homepods being default audio output for an Apple TV. Every user of the ATV needs to switch to their profile then launch the Music app. After accepting the splash screens on the ATV the Homepods should start to obey requests from that person.

Thank you for all the responses here. I had the same problem after I bought a new AppleTV and connected my paired HomePods for watching TV. All of a sudden when I wanted to just listen to music, Siri was asking for T&C agreement. Just opened the Music app on AppleTV, hit “Continue”, chose a song to play, and now everything is back to normal. Siri will play music through the Home Pods without AppleTV being on.

I get the same issue but only for my wife not me. She sees no messages to accept but if I ask for the same song it plays with no problem. All Apple TVs are set as default of my id anyone know how to switch this. She can ask for anything on normal HomePods, “not” connected to an appletv.

Yes - switch account on the Apple TV (press the Home button) to the user concerned and open the Music app. Once the welcome splash screen is displayed they should have access to music via Siri on the Homepod(s) connected to that Appele TV (and hopefully other Apple TVs in the house).

No luck - i only have a phone and laptop, both work fine. Weird

Appreciate this guidance - that resolved it for us! Hadn’t thought about launching Apple Music on the TV

I tried everything you Said and IT still does not work - Apple should provide an explanation !!!