HomePod will not connect to iPhone

I had just bought a HomePod. I set it up and connected it to Wi-Fi. When I turn it on it plays random music and it won’t play the music from my phone. I thought it would easily connect to my phone but it doesn’t. It keeps saying pairing was unsuccessful. Is there something else I need to do?

Posted on Oct 11, 2023 7:20 PM

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Rudegar

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Oct 12, 2023 12:14 AM in response to Loespo

it's not the homepod that need to access the iphone it's the iphone that needs to airplay music to the homepod

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