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As said, there is a static and crackling sound lasting up to 5 seconds when I’m playing music from Spotify on my HomePod Mini. It comes up every couple of minutes and then music resumes playing normally. So far I had no issues, and after this emerged, I updated all softwares to latest versions and updated the Spotify app. Any ideas what to do next?
HomePod mini, 18
I can no longer reliably use any of my HomePods with OS18. I have two homes in two countries with more than 8 HomePods at each site. After upgrading to OS18, it's not possible to reliably listen to music:
It goes without saying that these bugs destroy any listening pleasure using HomePods with OS18. Such a shame.
Excellent troubleshooting!
I had locked the 5GHz band on my router to 20MHz a little more than a week ago, and it seemed more stable for a few hours but then the issue reappeared.
I would second the advice to open a support ticket with Apple. The more noise we make, the more likely it will be that our HomePods will soon make less noise.
Yes, had high hopes for the update to 18.1 which seemed quite a lengthy one when installing on homepods last night. Disappointed and angry when the first song I played afterwards was ruined by humming and buzzing feedback again.
Come on Apple. Improvements in the homepod experience and its stability have always been a painfully slow process, but this current issue is a huge step backwards.
I’m sure as soon as I post this the issues will return, but since updating to 18.1 I haven’t had any more trouble. AirPlay is still wonky at times (randomly switches which speaker I’m controlling), but the crackling and sync issues have not been happening over the last couple of weeks.
Some update from side: I switched the 5 GHz WiFi to 20 MHz band width. Since 28th October I could no longer experience the sound issues, or delays. I’m still not 100% convinced of the stability. So, I will further monitor it.
I did not received any further feedback on my case from Apple, but I’m honest: I did not had time to follow up on it in the last weeks. But it is still on my list.
I updated last night and so far have had no issues. Thanks Apple for getting on the issue in an expedient manner.
How were able to update? Are you using 18.1?
Had the same result then 1 day later the crackling was back
😂
Same here, it annoying
Please update your HomePods to 18.1 to see if this issue is resolved.
Having this same issue! And it sucks that I can’t just access HomePods to restart etc without the home app which doesn’t seem like it’s integrated properly.
Read this article today and thought I'd share:
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-fixed-my-airplay-speaker-not-playing-apple-music-from-a-mac/
Don’t relax yet! I really hope it has worked for you but updating all mine didn’t solve it for me.
nope, still the same.
At least - I assume that updating my iPhone to 18.1 takes care of that?
I cannot find any setting in the Home app to update the HomePod specifically.
It didn’t fix it for me
Static and crackling sound on HomePod Mini
