Why do all my Homepods play the same music at different times after updating to IOS18? It doesn't happen in IOS17! There are more than 5 Homepods in my place. After I started to play for a while, maybe 3-5 songs, the audio does not sync anymore! It does like the delay time is a mess with the system!
HomePod, 18
Hello good people!
After months of audio problems with HomePods and AppleTV, iPhone or AirPlay—it’s hard to say exactly which—I’ve finally found a solution. I’ve tested it for a while now, and there are NO issues regardless of the app or device. I’ve tried it with Apple Music and Spotify in AppleTV and iPhone, and it now works flawlessly. I should also mention that I’m running the iOS 18.4 Developer version on all my devices. The problems I experienced were crackling sounds or sync issuesafter a while as I tried playing on multiple HomePods in the home, usually playing on different HomePods in stereo pairs, and the speakers in the stereo pairs losing sync.
Now for the solution. In my case, it was IGMP/multicast-related. My switches had IGMP snooping enabled—as did my Asus WiFi(Mesh) routers—but they only had IGMP snooping activated on WiFi. I had to enable multicast routing on the LAN as well. On Asus devices, you can find these settings under Wireless > Professional and LAN > IPTV. Now everything works perfectly again.
Hope this helps someone find a solution.
\Dan
Same here, more than one homepod crashes after 1-2 songs
You can be sure that’s what everyone tried first. Even a reinitialization to factory defaults didn’t help. It truly is the update that’s problematic
Addition: When I play radio stations with Siri (via Apple Music/TuneIn) there is no "out of synch" problem.
still goes out of sync for me on radio stations with Siri (via Apple Music/TuneIn)
still getting the sync issue on 18.1 anyone else ?
Sync wise everything seems to be fine now, but the scratching noise still appears sporadically on all the HomePods at different times. Only solution is to unplug and replug the HomePod
Lucky you!
really - the sound is good and for the most part everything else is working and responding but the sync is still broken for me - after like 4 / 5 songs it goes out of sync - so frustrating
My test was insufficient. It still happens in 18.2.
I gave up to use stereo pair.
I still have the same problem after 18.2
Me too and I don’t get why Apple just can’t fix it. Why do we always have to find a workaround?!
Guys, what kind of router are you using? Im using Eero and im wondering if the problem is not with Eero's routers
Not a router issue. I am using Unifi UDM SE.
Same here
Still seeing this after 18.3 on OG HomePods + HomePod mini
Audio sync problem with multiple HomePod after update to IOS18
