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
Hi, Since you have multiple HomePods, the issue might be related to Wi-Fi signal strength. Some HomePods that are farther from the router may experience weaker signals, causing the delay.
Try grouping all your HomePods closer to the router and test again. If the problem persists, follow these steps:
Possible Solutions:
• Restart your router
• Restart all your HomePods
• Sign out of your iCloud account and sign back in
• Check if your devices need software updates
• Ensure all HomePods are connected to the same Wi-Fi network
• Unplug all HomePods, wait 2–3 minutes, and plug them back in
• Toggle the Lossless Audio option in your iPhone settings and the Home app
• If your router supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, try connecting all HomePods to 5GHz. If that doesn’t help, switch to 2.4GHz
Alternative Solution:
• Reset all your HomePods
• Reset your router
Let me know if any of these steps help!
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
How do you get the Music to play from the Mac with multiple HP in the house?
Audio sync problem with multiple HomePod after update to IOS18
