How can I stop HomePod mini from playing music automatically?

HomePod mini in the bedroom woke up my wife twice recently by randomly playing loud music in the middle of the night. This really isn’t funny because she has sleeping issues (insomnia) in general.

Until and even if they can fix these issues, Apple should simply implement a “quiet” time setting on HomePods, so you can set them to not make any noise (even Siri answering) between certain times.

Did you find a solution. All my homepod mini’s start randomly talking and playing loud music in the middle of the night and day.

This happened right after the update to 17.6

I tried resetting all devices, turning off touch and Siri but that didn’t work either.

Did you have any luck?

I have 2 HomePod second generation and…both Apple HomePods are Garbage after software 17.5, ( OUT OF WARRANTY)…..Apple music turn by itself, siri same way, Touch Bar not working or not responding at the touch in both speakers … calling Apple support, they have the same answer for me, I have to pay $ 240 dls for a replacement, when I get a new ones for 290, I think they should be responsible for replacing or fixing the HomePod if the problem results after the software update in both speakers at the same time ( bricked the HomePods )….

Very similar issue for me. I'm not going to open up the device to do Apple's job for them of actually fixing this issue. Hope a fix is released or a recall if that's what's necessary because of a hardware flaw.

Hello!

Same problem :(

"remove the touch control ribbon cable."

I must disconnect this ribbon cable?

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Thanks!

This morning I turned it on and once powered on it just started to play music. phone, watch and ipad all off! Now putting the latest beta software on to see if that helps. So far, reset the device, reset all settings to factory, software updated = no change, fault still there. You can't really put up with this fault as its starts playing during the night, full volume, so it wakes everyone up, so turn it off / bin it is my suggestion.

This morning I turned it on and once powered on it just started to play music. phone, watch and ipad all off! Now putting 18.5 (22L5566a) on to see if that helps. So far, reset the device, reset all settings to factory, software updated = no change fault still there. You can't really put up with this fault as its starts playing during the night full volume so it wakes everyone up so turn it off / bin it is my suggestion.

This is most certainly Apple’s fault and they refuse to fix it. Nobody should have to open their $100 or $400 device to disconnect the touch panel just to keep it from performing actions nobody asked for.

Well, what to say, I guess this is what you have to expect these days. Just come in to my HomePOD mini having a party, playing away to itself at full volume. As soon as I stopped it, it just started again on its own, perhaps this is AI taking control? My recommendation for now is don’t use a Homepod as part of your home infrastructure as sadly you cannot rely on them whatsoever. Mine has finally been unplugged and will be recycled into a washing machine. I give up.

This problem started about 2 weeks ago after from one day to the next HomePod mini didn't play music from my MacMini as it usually does. Did all sorts of resets etc and eventually got it working. And then it started playing music on its own. The first time I thought maybe I forgot to hit pause. But then it happened a few more times, always restarting music spontaneously within a few hours. After reading the blogs, I moved it to another location, and that seemed to work. But now it's happening again. What do I do???

Since a few week I updated to iOS 18.6.2. Not sure if this is realted to the update, but my HomePods mini from early 2021 starts playing automatically. I foow all rules people suggest to stop Airplay, Transferring to Homepod and even Handoff. it all doesn't help. Do I have bad or aging harware from Apple after just 4.5 years? Even if I would buy new ones, would I face the same issues? On germans technical webste heise.de people are reporting the same issue. At leas I am not alone ith this problem. But Apple seems not to help so in way of service? Some were oviously lucky and got ther device replaced. I haven aske so far but after 4 years I have doubts they will

My HomePod is now behaving again; it must have been a software issue but it has not spontaneously started playing in >10 days now; previously it would start up on its own at all times of day/night and I ended up unplugging it.

I have the same issue. Started last night--woke me up! Had to unplug for it to stop. Resetting to factory did not stop the issue.

Welcome to the world of AI - the machines do what they like!

You might need to wait for a software update from Apple.

I reset mine to factory settings and it is still happening.