Sorry, there was a problem with Apple Podcasts - Homepod

Same issue here. Since it mentioned "There is something wrong with Apple Podcast", I tested out other news podcasts such as CBC, Global, BBC and CNN, they all work fine. I already submit a feedback to Apple, hope they will look into it.

I don’t think this is limited to just CTV. Having the same issue with CBC.

No this just isn’t Canada. I used to live in the UK and listen to BBC news we moved to Germany a few months ago. It worked for the first few months but now since last week or two we’re getting the same issue.

A quick update as I just finished chatting with Apple Support over an hour ago. The Podcast I used to listen to when I ask Siri for morning updates, turn out to be CTV News Flash Briefing and it's not available anymore on Apple's side; I believe it has been discontinued by CTV itself. Unfortunately there seems to be no easy way to teach Siri to set a different news podcast to take its place, so the thing goes into a loop. Every time it will say "sorry, there is something wrong with Apple Podcast" to no end. Guess those living in Canada who used to this particular podcast are stuck until one day we can choose a different one as our default podcast whenever we ask Siri for our daily updates.

I’m having the exact same problem as everybody else on here when I ask Siri what my update is. My default new service through Apple podcast was CBC The World This Hour podcast. The funny thing is if you ask Siri to play The World This Hour she will on HomePod. However, if you ask what my update is, it won’t play the news portion. To me it seems like this should be some low hanging fruit for the Dev team to figure out. It just isn’t affecting enough people to be that high on their priority list, I’m guessing. C’mon Apple it’s the little things that count. If you’re going to release something… make sure it continues to work for your customers.

Same issue here - I was using CBC news and get the same error. I can't force Siri to use something else for some reason. Hoping for a fix soon!

Same here on Siri/Carplay. I reported it and started a support chat. Restarting and logging in and out of appleID didn’t work (they then suggested I reset my phone but I didn’t do that ). It used to open to CBC news this hour for me…feels like it’s the last iOS update?

So I have a theory on this as it seems to be a Canada only problem…

When the federal government implemented all those rules about social media and other organizations having to pay to share news from Canada’s media outlets this also affected Apple. Instead of Apple telling customers we cant offer this feature anymore they just removed it and didn’t tell anyone. I suspect that if they told people reparations would need to be made to the owners of these devices as they removed a feature that was heavily advertised and shown in demo materials and many may have bought HomePods for this feature.

I asked Siri to switch the news source to CNN and it now works flawlessly. Ask to switch back, “Sorry, there’s a problem with Apple Podcasts”

I have no evidence, but given how long this has been happening, absolutely everyone I know having the same problem and customer care claiming they’ve never heard of this issue before….. seems likely.

On a side note news has been pulled from Facebook and Google News….. Apple news is a subscription service so I understand why news outlets still appear there.

I can't play joe rogan experience from homepod. but I'm able to play it in my phone, ipad, mac no problem. good jobs apple 👍

I’m having the same issue and I live in Tennessee. It’s not just a Canada problem. :/ I switched my news source and it still gives me the “sorry….” reply.

This is an all to frequent occurrence for Apple Update. Beginning to tire of resetting everything to see what works this time. Sometimes restarting the Homepod will do it, you just never know…it is also interesting that my level in discussions has dropped to 1 after decades being part of these discussions???

None is working on mine. I used to get BBC news summaries from world service when asking: “ what’s the latest news . This is not the only issue I’m having. Issues and issues day after day I’d say Siri must die to be reborn or something. Let’s say I ask for a simple song with the title then artist: 90 % failure rate. HomePod is useless to me. AirPods are great but god knows ( or perhaps doesn’t) Steve is turning in his grave crying over the chef cooking the apple these days: sour apples! I’ve been with the apple architecture since the first iPhone. I’ll keep one for GarageBand but I’ve already made the regretful but necessary move to android and copilot / chat G for the future. Perhaps I’ll come back when this crazy cook crooked ceo is gone. Indeed he is an expert in shareholder return Mony money honey it’s a shame you didn’t put it or some back in. Monetisation Apple TV Apple peaked long ago. Shame that two options bad apples get bored bordroom and jest ejected please please someone look at the long term and stop shorting Apple mr cook hoff

Unfortunately, I live in Alaska, so that Canada theory does not hold up for me...I have been having this happen about every two to three months. It does not coincide with updates to the OS's. Sometimes I unplug, reset, etc... the HomePod and it gets resolved. Sometimes I wait for a while or a day and it works again.

The strange thing is if my iPhone hears me ask for the update it all plays just fine on my iPhone. Go figure. I submit a feedback report to apple every time. We have become quite close, ha ha.

It is frustrating this continues to occur and no response from Apple techs. I have reported for over a year using the Feedback app on my iPhone. I have reported several times in this forum, no response and no fix...