Using a different Apple Music ID on HomePod

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Using a different Apple Music ID on HomePod

I set up my two HomePod speakers on my AppleID as I wanted them to be able to control the HomeKit accessories. However, my wife wants to be able to use her Apple Music playlists etc on “her” HomePod.

When I use her AppleID under ’Music & Podcasts’, it appears to log in just fine. However a few minutes later the Home app tells me there is an account problem, and it is one my wife’s HomePod. If I go in and select the faulty account it asks to update with MY info and not hers. And Siri will not do anything with Apple Music until I log out her accounts not and put mine back in. Which defeats the purpose of letting you even set a different ID.

Anyone else having this this issue or come upon a solution?

Posted on Apr 3, 2018 8:32 PM

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JWolf74 Author

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Apr 4, 2018 1:33 PM in response to turingtest2

So here is what I have found, and so far (5 hours with no issues) the problem has no cropped back up.

My main iCloud account (let's call it wolf@icloud.com) is what I use for EVERYTHING. However, I have a different iTunes/Apple Music account (myname@gmail.com) for everything else. My iTunes/Apple Music ID was set for Two-Step Authentication and not Two-Factor Authentication. Since you can only set up 2FA when you use the login as an iCloud account on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, I had not done that.

So I went and created a login on my iMac using myname@gmail.com and set up 2FA. After re-authorizing all my logins, I could set the 'Music & Podcast' account to my wife's and the 'invalid account' issue has yet to come back. It was pretty quick beforehand.

So, currently, I am considering this fixed. If it errors again, I will report.

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turingtest2

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Apr 4, 2018 7:52 AM in response to JWolf74

I don't have devices to worry about, but have you invited your wife to Share control of your home as described towards the end of Use the Home app on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support? If not it might help to do so. Alternatively perhaps she can set up the HomePod entirely under her own account, with her sharing the control of the home settings. Not quite what you were trying to do, but might at least work without error.

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turingtest2

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Apr 4, 2018 1:38 PM in response to JWolf74

Got it. As per Set up and use HomePod - Apple Support:

On the iOS device that you use to set up HomePod, make sure that you signed in to iCloud with your Apple ID and turned on iCloud Keychain. You also need to have two-factor authentication set up for your Apple ID.

But it isn't clear that if you're going to use a different Apple ID for music that too must be set up for 2FA.

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JWolf74 Author

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Apr 4, 2018 1:46 PM in response to turingtest2

Exactly. In addition, to make it even MORE confusing it didn’t give me ANY errors when my main iTunes account wasn’t 2FA and used in the ‘Music & Podcasts’ account. Everything worked peachy. It never once complained that MY music account wasn’t 2FA.

Plus my wife’s music account IS (and always was) protected by 2FA from the start.

So it is definitely something that can cause issues and isn’t really obvious because of how the error is presented.

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Using a different Apple Music ID on HomePod

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