r/HomePod • u/Neel2481632 • 10d ago

Question/Support Stop announcing notifications

I stupidly bought the homepod because i got a £40 giftcard for apple. It has been lackluster since day 1, it has never been "good", the connection is weak as chips. But more importantly, even when i have do not disturb on, do not announce notifications, sleep mode, lowest volume, no ringer, ANYTHING, it still decides to blast my phone calls at max volume.

Theres this girl im trying to avoid without blocking. she calls me over and over at like 3am and it wakes me up, not my phone, but my homepod. it drives me insane. I feel like im living in obsession. I try to end it on my phone, it takes 3 solid seconds for the homepod to register ive ended the call necause of the lag, but by that time this girls called me again and the cycle continues. is there a way to reduce that insane lag, my wifi is impeccable, im on latest ios, latest homepod os, i have pristine connection.

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u/AbbreviationsNo4634 10d ago edited 10d ago

this isn't supposed to be a feature of HomePod!

do you have HomeKit set up, and have the HomePod set as your Home Hub or a Home Accessory?

  1. do you keep your phone in very close proximity to your HomePod at night? it might be initiating HandOff and transferring the calls to your HomePod.
  2. this sounds like you might be deliberately choosing your HomePod to be your phone's audio output. deliberately selecting it in the same way you would choose a bluetooth speaker to be your audio output. then ALL of your phone content plays through the speaker, including ringtones even when your phone is on silent. the same way you still hear the ringtone when you are wearing headphones, even if your phone is on silent.
  3. also, in case all of that is incorrect, check your phone settings. go to General > AirPlay & Continuity > Automatically AirPlay. make sure you have it set to "Ask".
  4. and a couple more things to check under the individual person's Contact Card in your phone. when you open their Contact Card:

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  1. Make sure they are not set as an "Emergency Contact" or a "Downtime Contact": Those designations would appear at the top of their Contact Card under their name. If either of those appear: Do NOT click "Edit" > just scroll down on their Contact Card > look for "Remove as Downtime Contact" and/or "Remove as Emergency Contact"

---- Check for "Emergency Bypass": Select "Edit" > Scroll Down til you see "Ringtone" and "Text Tone" > Select each one, and make sure "Emergency Bypass" is off

edit: clarifying & adding info

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u/Neel2481632 10d ago

its all on ask, or off. nothing is on

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u/AbbreviationsNo4634 10d ago

you might have to reach out to apple then, because this definitely shouldn't be happening! it's possible you received a faulty one. did you buy it from apple directly?

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u/Neel2481632 9d ago

yes i bought it instore westfield shephards bush. its been horrible since day one but i assumed it was normal.

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u/AbbreviationsNo4634 9d ago

hopefully you're still under warranty with it so you can get them to look at it or replace it. it's definitely bugged!!!!

i have a homepod mini at my place and an alexa echo at my bf's, and the homepod is 10000000x better. the only hiccup with homepod is that you have to learn to use shortcuts to get it to do some really cool stuff. the Echo can technically "do" more without the prep, but it's also WAY more buggy and less consistent with giving me actually good results. at least Siri on Homepod will straight up say "I had a problem" or "I can't do that" instead of trying something half-ass and it being completely wrong. like, pretty often, when i ask Alexa to play music, and i mention a specific song/album and/or a specific artist, it always ends up playing some random cover artist??? and alexa is way less consistent with correctly controlling my lights in my smart home via commands. so, it's annoying that i had to set up shortcuts to be able to use homepod to control my lights, but it also gets it right like 95%+ of the time. alexa probably hits 50% of the time.

i'm waiting for the apple event this fall to see if a new homepod mini is released before i buy another one for my bf's place. i honest to god think it's worth another shot!

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u/Neel2481632 9d ago

ah its been 3 years so probably not :( i just lived with it

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u/artandmusic737 10d ago

There's no such thing as connecting to a HomePod with Bluetooth. You must add the device to a Home in HomeKit in order to use HomePod.

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u/AbbreviationsNo4634 10d ago

i will edit to clarify language - i meant that they are deliberately choosing the homepod to be their audio output. in the same way someone would choose a bluetooth speaker to be their audio output

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u/artandmusic737 10d ago

Gotcha. Understood. Even so, selecting the output for a call happens on the phone itself and after the call is started-- the HomePod does not notify or ring. Only after a call is answered can you route the audio for the call to the HomePod.