HomePod mini randomly doing stuff

I am in a very similar situation. I’ve had my HomePod minis for years without any issues and all of a sudden, today, one of them just started acting very weird. It was picking up requests very often, even without anyone asking it anything or even talking. Tonight, when we were upstairs sleeping, at 4am, it started playing music on full blast. We went down there and turned it off but then it started playing again. I unplugged it and moved it to another room for further troubleshooting in the morning, but for now I’m fairly convinced we have a ghost.

Very weird.

Same issues with mine. First the one about a month ago playing music at 100% volume at 4am. Then randomly started performing requests with now one asking. Then last night watching the new Trolls movie with only one mini. It insisted the volume be 100%. Then started telling jokes in the middle of the movie. They are both unplugged.

I did a factory reset on them both in late November early December. The one I trashed last night started working fine again. Until last night.

The first HomePod mini was released in 2020. That’s when I bought it.

Do you mean Homepod's? Mini's have not existed for "years".

Sorry my mistake. I Did not realize i had actually been tht long... Time flies

No worries. I know how you feel.

I was experiencing the problem again after I cleaned the HomePod mini and reset it to factory defaults. I think my last recourse is to take it in.

I ended up brining it in to the Apple Store and they said there was nothing they could do so I ended up throwing it away. Shame it only lasted like two years.