I created a Homekit scene that plays a song on a Homepod Mini with Loop on. The sound was a waterfall and when I first created it the loop worked well with no break in audio. After the 16.2 update there is now a pause of a few seconds before the loop starts again. This makes it useless as a sleep assistance.
I read that this also happened during a Homepod update some time ago.
iPhone SE, iOS 12
I haven't checked this with my system but I do know my loop track is about one minute (waterfall sound) and the pause does not start happening until several minutes later so you could be onto something.
Maybe you could give feedback to Apple, as a follow-up to my bug report:
Interesting that I just tested the same scene with an Original Homepod and there was no pause. However that Homepod is currently updating to 16.2 so we will see if that update breaks the loop.
BTW - the latest version of the Home app doesn't seem to let me see what version of HomepodOS is installed on any of my Homepods!
Thank you for the confirmation. I have submitted a bug report to Apple.com/feedback
Incidentally, the OS version is displayed now I have updated to 16.2. It seems 16.1 did not display the version, or else the Homepod was busy checking for updates and this somehow prevented the version displaying.
I am literally having the same issues as you. I can’t sleep with white noise anymore. Due to pausing on its own and shutting off.
Prior to updating to 16.2 I did not have this issue as often. Can’t believe they don’t have this as part of their QA testing.
when my HomePod Minis upgraded to 16.2 the pausing issue started during loops. A thought i had was to try adding the same song multiple times to the same playlist on loop but the pausing continued. That said…
i am noticing that the pauses are happening about 6 minutes and 10 or so seconds apart.
I’ve done stopwatch trst several times over several days. Are your pauses happening in 6 minutes intervals too?
yes it happen on 16.2 and 15.4 update
Happening to me too after updated to 16.2.
Come on Apple, test this **** first!!!
not the first time this bug has happened.
I am getting same issue. The loop feature is broken. I can’t even sleep with white noise anymore.
Mine is pausing too and sometimes even shutting completely off after a few hours! I’ve reset my HomePod and everything and it’s still pausing - so frustrating
Yessss exactly what’s happening with mine - 6 minutes
Yes. 6-10 minutes is the where the problem hit 5/5 times for me!
After 6-10 minutes my audio has been skipping/ popping
very weird but I did catch a video.
Homepod pauses during loop
