HomePod OS 17.0 asking to accept terms & conditions

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.

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!

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. :)

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.

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. :)

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

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 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!

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.

Note that every user with a profile on the Apple TV needs to select their profile and open the Music app in order to "accept" the T&C.

My Fix: my HomePods gave me this error, they were speakers for my Apple TV, the same as almost everyone getting this error, I played Apple Music in the actual Apple TV (only need to do it 1x time), from then on my HomePod would respond and play music normally.

Trust me, I was you. I was even screaming at Siri. I normally use my paired HomePod minis to play music, but also as speakers for my Apple TV. Do you do this too? If so,

I found the solution on the page. Just go into your Apple TV and play a song in Apple Music and the problem will be resolved.

if you use your speakers for a Mac or iPad whatever, log into Apple Music on those and do the same.

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!