Top 10 HomePod Tips You Need to Know!

This video has you covered with 10 tips and uses for the HomePod and HomePod Mini. You can start your smart home using Siri and Apple Home. Or, take advantage of the integration with Apple apps and services. The HomePod is full of simple easy to use features like setting timers, alarms, calling up music and making request. But you can do even more such as answer incoming calls, send a message using Apple Messages, find your devices using Find My, create reminders, notes and much more. What is your favorite HomePod use?

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Chapter:
00:00 Introduction
00:23 1. Making Request
01:37 2. Timers & Alarms
03:14 3. Listening to Audio
05:30 4. Calling & Messaging
07:05 5. Reminders
08:30 6. Intercom & Announcements
09:14 7. Pairing to Apple TV
10:14 8. Smart Home
11:41 9. Automations
12:43 10. Find My

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Just got my first pair of HomePods ever and your channel is helping a lot

[BreakTime]

Craig, we love your videos, content, and the Apple ecosystem. Have you figured out yet how many HomePods you can stream to at once, is there a limit? Thanks. See you Saturday for the live feed. 😊

[myHomeKithome]

After music, news, and podcasts, reminders are this thing I use my HomePod for the most. Super helpful! You can also bring up live radio just by asking Siri to play the radio stations call letters ors.

[cjxgraphics]

Every single video clip I’ve seen showing Handoff, you practically have to tap the HomePod for the music to transfer.
In use however, the Handoff feature is way too sensitive! I’ve turned off this feature because I have a HomePod Mini on my desk, and my phone is like 2 or 3 feet away but it tries to connect every time I lift up my phone!
I did find a workaround though!
I have an nfc tag on my desk that runs a shortcut. Tapping it transfers the audio to the HomePod… just like the feature is demonstrated to actually work.

[JohnTheSpursFan]

Hi there, I have an issue with just saying "Hey Siri" to my Homepod with multiple devices around me. Like asking the homepod to play me a song and it ends up playing a song on my phone. Is there like a quick fix to this issue? What do you guys recommed that i need to do?

[DGYtown]

I wish the intercom feature could go to a specific device, rather than to all devices. I like the echo drop in feature because you can filter to just one device. I have a mix of mostly google devices ( home mini, home hub, nest hub max) and a couple homepod minis. Mostly just use the HomePod minis as speakers for my Apple TV 📺

[KenAdams]

Man, just got the nanoleaf bulbs to try as my Orein bulbs just stopped working, and i can not get it to work with homekit. Got the nanoleaf essentials bulbs, will not connect to homekit. I take that back, it will, but it wont respond. I notice it does not go into my wifi router, but when installed the nanoleaf app, then it worked, and even "connecting" the matter to homekit, the bulb still didnt work. kinda sad. The Meross bulbs i got work and were easy to setup with no extra app.

[nicholasnnic]

they have very limited radio streaming connections the In U.K via Siri, otherwise it is quite good.

[freydrik]

Is it possible to have a conversation through homepod, with people who could be nearby, without having to call them?

Say I am at work and no one answers their phones, I’d like to try to talk through homepod, and listen in, and whoever is nearby could answer directly.

This is possible with Amazon Echo.

[LawB]

EDC: iPhone 13 Pro, Apple Watch Ultra 2, Air Pod Pro 2, Orbit Key, Rovy Von Aurora A8 flash light, Coach slim wallet

[DennisKovacich]

I had a friend from high school crashing at my place for about five years. I freaked him out one day when I said “hi” through the intercom while I was at work. 😈😆

[natetetreault]

The fact that I have to AirPlay my Spotify (or use Spotify on my Apple TV) to get it to play on my HomePods in 2024, is wild to

[bwoohk]

The smaller the size of the speaker, the higher the design and technical requirements will be, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve stunning sound quality.

[redfire]

To me it got worst she don’t even hear me and you see it light up but nothing. Then I’m yelling and frustrated. With the control to my tv I say pause she pause when I say play she play music.

[wertimo]

Worth saying that Spotify wasn’t available originally to be added as a service as it was competing with Apple Music - but since then Apple made it possible due clients request, but Spotify stands the ground. Spotify is the way to go

[TheSodFather]

Amazon echo is still better in many ways.

[YaBoiiDucky]

Siri never knows when to respond on my homepod or iphone...

[Eddie_-_]

Apple fanboy here. HomeKit is great, but Siri… sigh. Damn it is useless and it’s not getting any better. Rather the opposite