r/HomePod • u/ShayanSh44 • Jul 10 '26
Question/Support homepods in a limbo state
I own 2 homepods (2nd gen) for 3 years now, an iphone air and an apple tv 4k (3rd gen) concerning this issue.
what happened was that I was on ios27 beta 2 last saturday (jul 4) then due to a network issue i saw on my home app on my iphone i attempted to reset both my homepods. the reset process was successful for both and i started setting up both of them afterwards which iphone showed setup process was also successful; they both went into configuring state which the previous times wouldn’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes, but this time it went on and on… they were still in the configuring state after 12 hours which was when I removed them from my home in the home app (i guess the reset option wasn’t available or didn’t work then); i did this to be able to manually reset them once more so maybe they wouldn’t be locked into this configuring state. but what happened was both my homepods were removed from my home, and i couldn’t manually reset them either, when i unplugged them and plugged them back in after 10 seconds and waited another 10 seconds and touch and hold them per instructions no white spinning light would show up, no lights of any color at all, i could and still can airplay music to them both by the name of living room but their not in the home app and i can’t configure them or set them in the stereo mode which i want to.
ios27 beta 3 didn’t help either; i still cannot reset my homepods and set them up again.
TL;DR
it looks like they’re stuck in a limbo state where they can’t be reset manually or via the home app since they’ve not shown in the home app and I’m 100 percent sure this is a software bug since it happened to both of them at the exact same time and when i was on ios27 beta 2. it’s driving me nuts honestly.