How can I stop HomePod mini from playing music automatically?

This morning I turned it on and once powered on it just started to play music. phone, watch and ipad all off! Now putting the latest beta software on to see if that helps. So far, reset the device, reset all settings to factory, software updated = no change, fault still there. You can't really put up with this fault as its starts playing during the night, full volume, so it wakes everyone up, so turn it off / bin it is my suggestion.

This is most certainly Apple’s fault and they refuse to fix it. Nobody should have to open their $100 or $400 device to disconnect the touch panel just to keep it from performing actions nobody asked for.

JeffSims1 wrote:

Once was enough. Nobody wants or needs to scroll past your copy/pasted non-working answer 25 times bud.

Sometimes when people are new here, they don't understand that every post is seen by everyone in the thread so they reply to each person. It's certainly fine to politely point that out. But I'm not sure pointing it out now, nine months later, is going to have much effect.

Well, what to say, I guess this is what you have to expect these days. Just come in to my HomePOD mini having a party, playing away to itself at full volume. As soon as I stopped it, it just started again on its own, perhaps this is AI taking control? My recommendation for now is don’t use a Homepod as part of your home infrastructure as sadly you cannot rely on them whatsoever. Mine has finally been unplugged and will be recycled into a washing machine. I give up.

This problem started about 2 weeks ago after from one day to the next HomePod mini didn't play music from my MacMini as it usually does. Did all sorts of resets etc and eventually got it working. And then it started playing music on its own. The first time I thought maybe I forgot to hit pause. But then it happened a few more times, always restarting music spontaneously within a few hours. After reading the blogs, I moved it to another location, and that seemed to work. But now it's happening again. What do I do???

Since a few week I updated to iOS 18.6.2. Not sure if this is realted to the update, but my HomePods mini from early 2021 starts playing automatically. I foow all rules people suggest to stop Airplay, Transferring to Homepod and even Handoff. it all doesn't help. Do I have bad or aging harware from Apple after just 4.5 years? Even if I would buy new ones, would I face the same issues? On germans technical webste heise.de people are reporting the same issue. At leas I am not alone ith this problem. But Apple seems not to help so in way of service? Some were oviously lucky and got ther device replaced. I haven aske so far but after 4 years I have doubts they will

My HomePod is now behaving again; it must have been a software issue but it has not spontaneously started playing in >10 days now; previously it would start up on its own at all times of day/night and I ended up unplugging it.

I have the same issue. Started last night--woke me up! Had to unplug for it to stop. Resetting to factory did not stop the issue.

Welcome to the world of AI - the machines do what they like!

You might need to wait for a software update from Apple.

I reset mine to factory settings and it is still happening.

Same here, randomly playing music in the middle of the night

I have the same problem too…

Two HomePod 2 happen at the same time .

Very troublesome…

Has anyone opened a ticket or contacted Apple for this?

I bought a homepod mini a few weeks ago and it has shown the same behavior since day 1.

Was gently heating up the touchscreen the definitive solution?

Nope, that is exactly how all my devices are set and it still happens. Siri says things when the room has been completely silent for hours.