[Homepod] Stereo pairing doesn't work anymore with iOs 12

The Apple Home Pod is a complete and utter FAILURE and that is laid directly on Cook.

Every time I try to use it to listen to music during my workout I have to spend more time screwing around with it than I have time to work out. It's a failure. I have two and I am just

Mike
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I’m in the same situation. One month+ already and still no patch just yet.

➖Common Apple‼grrrrrrrr

P.S. At least I’ve noticed that I can have them work in pair mode if I start playing whatever I want to listen on my iPhone and then after that to air playing it to my paired homepods in which case pair mode is working just fine, apparently. That seems to be the only way around the issue until finally Apple will push a new firmware update and have this pitty issue fixed once and for all.

It’s funny how few days after detailing the problem with my homepods I can happily and officially state that since yesterday, 10/23/2018 they miraculously start working again.

P.S. If you have a pairing issue too with your homepods make sure to leave a detailed comment with what you’re experiencing in this thread because apparently Apple can remotely fix them. I have no other logical explanation since mines didn’t worked ever since the new IOS 12.0 and now they do. Don’t know how, don’t know who but thank you.

Did anyone try it after the 12.1 update?

I had the issue after updating to 12.0 on my homepods and returned one since not working in stereo mode..

I am tempted to buy a second one again to try out if stereo mode works or not.

In another discussion I reported that my Homepods stopped playing in stereo when playing music via Siri - that is, the second Homepod did not light up and start playing music. I managed to get them working again by pausing the first one, tapping the top of the second to wake it and start playing music, pausing it and starting the first one again. Suddenly stereo was back! This flukey behaviour might explain your success.

However it doesn't fix the problem raised in this discussion about not being able to set up a stereo pair.

One tip I found in another discussion is to make sure the Homepods are on the same wifi band. This might mean temporarily disabling one of the bands (5gHz?) of the router to see if it fixes the problem.

Are you running iTunes on a Mac or Windows? I see the stereo pair from iTunes for Mac only.

tt2

My stereo paired HomePods are still working nicely with 12.1.

tt2

Could you try a factory reset on both and set them both up as a new stereo pair? That should confirm that they are usable again.

I'm not at home right now but I will do it later and report back.

tt2

That'd be awesome! Thanks!

Stereo pair ungrouped. Both devices reset using the power cycle long press press method. Tested independently then joined again as a stereo pair and working as expected.

tt2