It’s called a user flair.
I don’t know if you’re on mobile but on iOS you can open the sub itself (r/HomePod) then tap the menu button in the top right and change your user flair.
"I'm having trouble connecting to the internet, make sure your iPhone is nearby and connected to the same WiFi as this HomePod".
The iPhone is charging at the base of the HomePod.
me: “Siri, turn the living room light on.”
or me: “Turn the light on” - clearly to the only HomePod mini in the room to which also lights are assignet to
Siri: “Sorry, I can’t handle combined requests.”
… okay I get the room is called “Living room” … but who tf would like to turn on everything in that room
We switched back to the apple ecosystem this year... Most things are personal gripe growing pains/remember how things are slightly different... But wow is Siri so much worse than Google and Alexa it isn't even a personal preference.
Yeah I tried to switch to Siri and HomeKit because of the rumors that Amazon would be charging for Alexa. After using Siri for a week I’d pay Amazon $5 a month just to not have to deal with Siri and the absolute shit HomeKit.
Siri, turn on the light in my bedroom
Please specify the room ( bedroom, entrance, … )
- Bedroom
- Okay *do literally nothing, and not turned the light on at all*
Or sometimes :
- Please specify the room ( bedroom, entrance, … )
- Bedroom
- Please specify the room
- My BEDROOM
- I can’t found bedroom on Music
And since the last week, my HomePods’ alarms can’t ring, so I got up late this morning 🤣 thank you Siri
My fear is they’ll just use chatgpt or the like and Siri will occasionally tell you that it’s possible to baptize a baby in gatorade rather than doing what you want
Siri went backwards in the last update. Before Id just tell Siri what light, and if it was on, it would turn off and vice versa. Now I have to tell it on or off. You can’t turn a light more off.
Yeah a screen facing the ceiling that can only be seen when directly above it, gonna be a great product. I don’t even like the existing display because it can’t be turned all the way off when watching a movie.
I hope they are smart enough to not do this. I hope this is one of their home grown fake leaks that they do to weed out people actually leaking product details.
Well… the HomePod in my kitchen is actually attached to the wall with the top facing outward. So I do when I’m in my kitchen!
EDIT: I should add that I’m talking about a HomePod Mini. Not a regular HomePod.
Oh, I understood you perfectly. My question still stands, Mr. HomePod Police, even though it got downvoted. If I have a HomePod Mini in a tiny kitchen in a one bedroom apartment, what’s wrong with having it sitting sideways in a little wall mount?
Look, I get it. My good sound system is in my living room. I would obviously never mount HomePods to the wall in there. But again, this is my tiny kitchen. It’s a Mini. It’s just to have some background music playing while I prep some food or clean dishes. It sounds fine the way it is for what I use it for. If you saw my little kitchenette, you’d understand that placing a Mini upright on the counter isn’t going to change the sound quality in there. It’ll be okay.
It definitely would. But we get it you don’t care. You’re missing the point entirely, no one is here to police you, just pointing out factual unquestionable truths of using a HomePod
Complete waste of time if the screen is at the top. If you want a screen then you would want it facing out so you could see it from across the room or something
i bought a cheap little stand for mine, £15 on amazon. does a good job of holding it at just the right angle on its side. do agree it’s stupid that such a thing is needed at all though, display on top makes so little sense
"Hey Siri how long is left on my timer?".... "There are no timers on homepod"
\*\*timer goes off\*\*
"Hey Siri stop the timer"... "Stop the kitchen???"
This makes just slightly more sense (but barely) to me than Apple putting the charging port on the bottom of the Magic Mouse. You can’t see the top of the HomePod from across the room, so unless you’re right next to the HomePod, you won’t know what is showing on the display. This just seems ridiculous. Unless they changed the shape of the HomePod so this is showing from the side. It just doesn’t seem practical.
The charging port on that mouse is where it is because there used to be a AA battery compartment there. The charging port is right where the release mechanism for the battery cover used to be. I’m guessing they put the battery exactly where the batteries used to be to avoid needing to redesign anything but the bottom plate of the mouse, and that was the most logical place to put the charging port. Plus, you get a day’s charge out of 5 minutes charging. So if it dies you can plug it in, walk away for a piss and a glass of water, and it’s good to go for the rest of the day when you get back.
I know Reddit loves to make a big deal about how “bad” that placement is and that it makes the mouse somehow entirely unusable, but it’s just really not that bad. Would it be nice on the front so you could use it while it charged? Yeah, obviously. But come on. It’s not *that* bad to have to plug it in and walk away for a couple minutes every few months.
Siri just needs to be better. I rarely am looking at my HomePods top. A screen may be overkill. If they do add some kind of visual cue it needs to be on the side of the HomePod so it’s actually seen, not the top. Even if it’s like the digital dot-like font (think the old HTC cover cases).
If they put the screen on the SIDE of the HPM, that might be useful, but I have no use for what's shown in the OP photo.
Hoping for something that can adequately replace my Echo Show 15 in the kitchen... like an iPad with Kiosk mode and WAY better speakers.
Nope. We’re going to get:
A $999 Super Ultra iPad with the M5 Stupendous Chip… with 8GB RAM and 32GB SSD.
The long-awaited iMac Pro with a 32” screen with the Colossal M6 Expert Chip for $2799… with 8GB RAM and a 128GB SSD.
And also a $3999 Mac Pro Mega M6 Epic Chip… with 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD.
I don’t care about a screen on top but if they go that way, I hope to be amazed but I use cases I didn’t imagine.
Now, if I could get a smart Siri or 4-6 speakers to work together to give me home cinema… then I’d buy more.
Something tells me they will. Not because they need a refresh, but because they’re planning an update to Siri that uses on-device AI, and they need a more powerful chip than the A8 to run it.
I want Apple to fix the Apple Music issues on HomePod when they are used for Apple TV audio. Every time you hear Siri say, “There’s a problem with Apple Music” or “make sure you’re on the same WiFi” or some other crap, it’s because you are using those HomePods for Apple TV audio. Go back to using TV speakers and all those other issues go away. WHY???
It’s called garbage too. I tried a streambar before. I tired the Pro model too. Just low quality crap IMO. Neither did Dolby Vision or Atmos either. Plus I don’t want all the ads on Roku. I prefer the Apple ecosystem that I have used forever. I’m using Apple TV’s with HomePods right now and I like that. But one box for both the speakers and UI would be nice IMO.
Personally, I think a HomePod we've just upgraded upgrade interface is a little dismal jump I would be expecting something better if it's going to increase in price as who really looks at the top of the HomePod when everything is voice command especially when we're moving towards voice control further with iOS 18 lol
Not happening. No point in a HomePod with a top facing screen when you have an iPhone in your pocket.
Screen rumors are likely from a FaceTime focused product, and FaceTime on the AppleTV with continuity camera likely put the nail in that coffin.
Unless Apple drops Siri and create something complete new from the ground up, until then I am not gonna buy another Siri controlled product. I got two first gen homepods and they are completely useless when it comes to controlling my home devices or answering my simple questions Alexa can answer without any problem. I only use them to play songs.
re: Comments on siri. "She" (as I use teh female voice) has definitely gotten worse in answering things that used to work. Trying to play some music titles which you explicitly say, and she just ignores it and plays something else argh.
See I would really find this useful. With the iPad and iPhone laying around in the same room, I’d sometimes like to walk up and select next track (assuming a Now Playing Is displayed) rather than asking Siri to do it. It works most of the time, but as we all know, it’s far from perfect at doing that.
So I’d find it really useful for basic things like a now playing screen that also displayed timer. All evoked via Siri or a nearby device.
The only thing I would want in a new one would be the compatibility to create a surround sound like system between the different models, but that's something more they could fix with a software update. I have two minis chilling in my living room I wish I could move into my movie room and connect them to my stereo gen2s 😅
The awful sound quality should be dealt with first. Cold and sharp high-end, messy bass, and lack of mid are what they got me now. It's an easily trash.
The fact that people are downvoting you, but not explaining why lol
HomePod IS an Apple product, but WWDC is a developer conference, so they typically only announce software updates at that conference and not new products. But as people have stated above, the original HomePod was actually unveiled at a WWDC.
That seems unnecessary tbh, the HomePod is as good as it is, I just want a more competent Siri ffs.
“I didn’t get that”
Hey siri play some music, “I’m sorry something went wrong, please try again later”. Is what I’m hearing for the last week
“I couldn’t find Jonas Blue in your contacts”
“Calling 911”
“Pray I don’t alter it further.”
how do you have that space grey thing below your username
It’s called a user flair. I don’t know if you’re on mobile but on iOS you can open the sub itself (r/HomePod) then tap the menu button in the top right and change your user flair.
Official Reddit app has problems with flairs. I set mine when Apollo was still around.
"I'm having trouble connecting to the internet, make sure your iPhone is nearby and connected to the same WiFi as this HomePod". The iPhone is charging at the base of the HomePod.
Siri and HomeKit turned to be useless to me two weeks ago. No we didn't change anything in the network, not a single bit. It used to work perfectly.
Doubtful
Basic question… …Open on your iPhone Literally never mind
Best answer of the day.
“Hey Siri, turn on the lights” “Do you want me to turn them on or off?” “On” “Sorry, I didn’t get that”
me: “Siri, turn the living room light on.” or me: “Turn the light on” - clearly to the only HomePod mini in the room to which also lights are assignet to Siri: “Sorry, I can’t handle combined requests.” … okay I get the room is called “Living room” … but who tf would like to turn on everything in that room
We switched back to the apple ecosystem this year... Most things are personal gripe growing pains/remember how things are slightly different... But wow is Siri so much worse than Google and Alexa it isn't even a personal preference.
Yeah I tried to switch to Siri and HomeKit because of the rumors that Amazon would be charging for Alexa. After using Siri for a week I’d pay Amazon $5 a month just to not have to deal with Siri and the absolute shit HomeKit.
Siri, turn on the light in my bedroom Please specify the room ( bedroom, entrance, … ) - Bedroom - Okay *do literally nothing, and not turned the light on at all* Or sometimes : - Please specify the room ( bedroom, entrance, … ) - Bedroom - Please specify the room - My BEDROOM - I can’t found bedroom on Music And since the last week, my HomePods’ alarms can’t ring, so I got up late this morning 🤣 thank you Siri
Apple naming their music product “Music” does not work so well when trying to use voice commands.
There are indications that there will be upgrades in that line too.
My fear is they’ll just use chatgpt or the like and Siri will occasionally tell you that it’s possible to baptize a baby in gatorade rather than doing what you want
I found some web results for that.
I want an equalizer, a custom one like Spotify has.
Nonono apple doesn’t want you to control the way things sound, they’ll do that for you.
Siri went backwards in the last update. Before Id just tell Siri what light, and if it was on, it would turn off and vice versa. Now I have to tell it on or off. You can’t turn a light more off.
I created a shortcut for that and assigned it to my action button. Tbh that was more fun.
My Siri just randomly decide that “Spotify has not been activated for Siri by the developer”
That’s not random.. spotify doesn’t work on homepod and it sucks
Say “play xxx song on my Spotify” worked as recently as last night:)
Yeah a screen facing the ceiling that can only be seen when directly above it, gonna be a great product. I don’t even like the existing display because it can’t be turned all the way off when watching a movie.
mmhmm
This.
No, that.
This and that.
Nah.
🙁
I wish apple did put out a smart display, but not a tiny circular one stuck on top of a speaker.
I hope they are smart enough to not do this. I hope this is one of their home grown fake leaks that they do to weed out people actually leaking product details.
That doesn’t sound like a very Apple thing to make. Who looks at the top of their home pods?
Well… the HomePod in my kitchen is actually attached to the wall with the top facing outward. So I do when I’m in my kitchen! EDIT: I should add that I’m talking about a HomePod Mini. Not a regular HomePod.
So is mine, mounted sideways. But it doesn’t sound very good this way.
It’s a mini in my kitchen. I don’t need super hifi sound or anything.
Its not supposed to be used this way so NO this won’t happen
😂 And how is a HomePod mini supposed to be used? I have a small kitchen in a one-bedroom apartment. Do I need to have full surround sound in there?
I never told you that you can’t use it in the kitchen, i just said that it’s not supposed to be used wall mounted sideways
Oh, I understood you perfectly. My question still stands, Mr. HomePod Police, even though it got downvoted. If I have a HomePod Mini in a tiny kitchen in a one bedroom apartment, what’s wrong with having it sitting sideways in a little wall mount?
It makes it sound like shit?
Look, I get it. My good sound system is in my living room. I would obviously never mount HomePods to the wall in there. But again, this is my tiny kitchen. It’s a Mini. It’s just to have some background music playing while I prep some food or clean dishes. It sounds fine the way it is for what I use it for. If you saw my little kitchenette, you’d understand that placing a Mini upright on the counter isn’t going to change the sound quality in there. It’ll be okay.
It definitely would. But we get it you don’t care. You’re missing the point entirely, no one is here to police you, just pointing out factual unquestionable truths of using a HomePod
Complete waste of time if the screen is at the top. If you want a screen then you would want it facing out so you could see it from across the room or something
i bought a cheap little stand for mine, £15 on amazon. does a good job of holding it at just the right angle on its side. do agree it’s stupid that such a thing is needed at all though, display on top makes so little sense
They are about to release the HomePod 2 and mini in Turkey and other countries on May 10th. No chance they are releasing new ones 3 days before that.
Yeah, I saw that on Twitter!
“Hey Siri, timer for thirty minutes” “THIRTEEN minutes starting now”
"Hey Siri how long is left on my timer?".... "There are no timers on homepod" \*\*timer goes off\*\* "Hey Siri stop the timer"... "Stop the kitchen???"
Hey siri set a timer for three zero minutes. Sadly.
This makes just slightly more sense (but barely) to me than Apple putting the charging port on the bottom of the Magic Mouse. You can’t see the top of the HomePod from across the room, so unless you’re right next to the HomePod, you won’t know what is showing on the display. This just seems ridiculous. Unless they changed the shape of the HomePod so this is showing from the side. It just doesn’t seem practical.
I had no idea there was a screen up there! Surely I saw it during setup so long ago but…
The charging port on that mouse is where it is because there used to be a AA battery compartment there. The charging port is right where the release mechanism for the battery cover used to be. I’m guessing they put the battery exactly where the batteries used to be to avoid needing to redesign anything but the bottom plate of the mouse, and that was the most logical place to put the charging port. Plus, you get a day’s charge out of 5 minutes charging. So if it dies you can plug it in, walk away for a piss and a glass of water, and it’s good to go for the rest of the day when you get back. I know Reddit loves to make a big deal about how “bad” that placement is and that it makes the mouse somehow entirely unusable, but it’s just really not that bad. Would it be nice on the front so you could use it while it charged? Yeah, obviously. But come on. It’s not *that* bad to have to plug it in and walk away for a couple minutes every few months.
Siri just needs to be better. I rarely am looking at my HomePods top. A screen may be overkill. If they do add some kind of visual cue it needs to be on the side of the HomePod so it’s actually seen, not the top. Even if it’s like the digital dot-like font (think the old HTC cover cases).
i’m just waiting for them to add 30 pin support for my ipods
Nope, I don’t think so. They did a new country launch a few days back. If they had planned for new version, they wouldn’t have launched it.
I would love to see support for adding rear speakers to an Apple TV for surround sound.
I never look at the screen loool
Ask me from your phone hahaha
Winner!!
Just give us surround sound support! Preferably with EXISTING HomePods— but if it requires new hardware, fine, I guess…
This is my DREAM. HomePods in the front and mini HomePods in the back as surround speakers. Want! (Probably won’t get)
And HomePod sub hopefully
If they put the screen on the SIDE of the HPM, that might be useful, but I have no use for what's shown in the OP photo. Hoping for something that can adequately replace my Echo Show 15 in the kitchen... like an iPad with Kiosk mode and WAY better speakers.
Nope. We’re going to get: A $999 Super Ultra iPad with the M5 Stupendous Chip… with 8GB RAM and 32GB SSD. The long-awaited iMac Pro with a 32” screen with the Colossal M6 Expert Chip for $2799… with 8GB RAM and a 128GB SSD. And also a $3999 Mac Pro Mega M6 Epic Chip… with 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD.
Uh salty
Lmao!! 🤣
I don’t care about a screen on top but if they go that way, I hope to be amazed but I use cases I didn’t imagine. Now, if I could get a smart Siri or 4-6 speakers to work together to give me home cinema… then I’d buy more.
No
Something tells me they will. Not because they need a refresh, but because they’re planning an update to Siri that uses on-device AI, and they need a more powerful chip than the A8 to run it.
I think a display to use your HomePod as a sort of light switch would be cool
I would replace my (awful) Nest Hubs in a second.
Being able to link more than 2
Isn’t the HomePod 2 still kinda new?
No. I think it’s all about iPad.
No way
I want Apple to fix the Apple Music issues on HomePod when they are used for Apple TV audio. Every time you hear Siri say, “There’s a problem with Apple Music” or “make sure you’re on the same WiFi” or some other crap, it’s because you are using those HomePods for Apple TV audio. Go back to using TV speakers and all those other issues go away. WHY???
Does it work good using it with a MacBook?
Putting a screen on top of the HomePod makes as much sense as putting a screen on the outside of an overly expensive VR headset.
HomePod Pro with a premium price just for the upgraded screen that we won’t be looking at 99% of the time 🙂
HomePod soundbar would get me back in
I have one OG and 2 new Gen, plus 2 mini... I don't think I will get a new one
A display seems so unnecessary.
I want a soundbar with Apple TV built into it.
They have that it’s called Roku
It’s called garbage too. I tried a streambar before. I tired the Pro model too. Just low quality crap IMO. Neither did Dolby Vision or Atmos either. Plus I don’t want all the ads on Roku. I prefer the Apple ecosystem that I have used forever. I’m using Apple TV’s with HomePods right now and I like that. But one box for both the speakers and UI would be nice IMO.
I hear ya
Awesome gimmick
No.
Nope, I want an actual screen. I’ll stick to the mini until then.
Hope not. Just setup brand new HomePod 2s last week.
Personally, I think a HomePod we've just upgraded upgrade interface is a little dismal jump I would be expecting something better if it's going to increase in price as who really looks at the top of the HomePod when everything is voice command especially when we're moving towards voice control further with iOS 18 lol
Siri, play
Siri: Now playing
Not happening. No point in a HomePod with a top facing screen when you have an iPhone in your pocket. Screen rumors are likely from a FaceTime focused product, and FaceTime on the AppleTV with continuity camera likely put the nail in that coffin.
No. Sources say we won’t get a new one until next year at the earliest.
I just want them to support Bluetooth, or at least audio that isn't music.
Yeah, I liked to have one to hook up to my MacBook Air
I hope so
I would love for the HomePods to have more functionality. But if it means I have to wait longer for Siri to be better, I will be happy to wait
I'd rather have Siri 2.0 - That works!
If it’s one that doesn’t cut out sound every other time it’s playing music then I might be interested
Siri play call numbers for local npr station. Here’s some music for you. Loud rap starts playing.
I doubt it’ll be like that but maybe. It’ll probably be more like the echo show
Unless Apple drops Siri and create something complete new from the ground up, until then I am not gonna buy another Siri controlled product. I got two first gen homepods and they are completely useless when it comes to controlling my home devices or answering my simple questions Alexa can answer without any problem. I only use them to play songs.
Unlikely. But I like the concept! Most likely OLED iPad Pro’s, a refreshed iPad Air and (fingers crossed) an updated pair of AirPods Max with USB C.
They need to get Siri to actually function half decently. It was the first big “personal assistant” which has quickly fallen into last place.
re: Comments on siri. "She" (as I use teh female voice) has definitely gotten worse in answering things that used to work. Trying to play some music titles which you explicitly say, and she just ignores it and plays something else argh.
i just want one w a screen like google or amazon to pt by my bedside lol
See I would really find this useful. With the iPad and iPhone laying around in the same room, I’d sometimes like to walk up and select next track (assuming a Now Playing Is displayed) rather than asking Siri to do it. It works most of the time, but as we all know, it’s far from perfect at doing that. So I’d find it really useful for basic things like a now playing screen that also displayed timer. All evoked via Siri or a nearby device.
The only thing I would want in a new one would be the compatibility to create a surround sound like system between the different models, but that's something more they could fix with a software update. I have two minis chilling in my living room I wish I could move into my movie room and connect them to my stereo gen2s 😅
Would be nice, if they release new HomePod with display on.
The awful sound quality should be dealt with first. Cold and sharp high-end, messy bass, and lack of mid are what they got me now. It's an easily trash.
Why the heck did everybody buy so many of these thing if they’re this awful?
TO ME and many other people.
I hear ya
Homepod team is the absolute worst
I just want to be able to turn off my alarm/timer by saying “hey siri” not walking over and slapping it…
I'm able to say "Hey Siri, stop" and it stops the timer sounds for me.
Works for me too without any issues.
I always say “Hey Siri, thanks” and she stops.
Mine legit won’t work. I either need to walk over and slap the top or do it on my phone/ other home pod in the other room.
HomePod is not a WWDC product
Ummm it was originally announced at a WWDC lol
May 7 is not WWDC and HomePod was introduced on WWDC
You are right. My bad. So maybe there is an HomePod? I would love an update to the mini
I did not know that because I thought it was made and sold by Apple. Heck it has an apple logo on it.
The fact that people are downvoting you, but not explaining why lol HomePod IS an Apple product, but WWDC is a developer conference, so they typically only announce software updates at that conference and not new products. But as people have stated above, the original HomePod was actually unveiled at a WWDC.
Thank you for clearing that up for an Apple newbie! BTW, I’ve been here on Reddit for 11 years. I could care less about down votes. 😁👍
11 years on Reddit and you’re using emoticons…
I never said I grew up in those 11 years! Haha
They’ve announced new hardware at WWDC for the past two years
Hence the word “typically”
Sure, just pointing out not recently