Apple Releases New 13.4.6 Software for HomePod

$20.00 says it still can't tell the difference between me and my wife.

Yup. I can't even get mine to learn who she is. Siri knows who I am when I ask, but when my gf asks Siri she has no idea who she is. I've done absolutely everything Apple suggests multiple times with zero success.

I had a lot of trouble making this to work. Of course I read hundreds of posts and tutorials. Also multiple HomePod resets, remove and add to Home, creating a new home, getting a new wife...However the thing that instantly solved all my issues was to turn on Siri on iPhone Settings > Your name > iCloud > Siri (Home and Keychain should be ticked too, but this are discussed on every tutorial). Siri should be allowed to access iCloud on both devices (yours and yours wife's).
After that, if isn't working yet, do the retraining Siri part for both and you are done.

The cynic in me says you’re hijacking a thread about a software update.

$20.00 says it still can't tell the difference between me and my wife.

I'll only ever be interested in this product when it allows me to use Siri to play my lifetime of accumulated ripped CDs. Being forced into a paid subscription for Apple Music for my wife (computer illiterate) or I to listen to my own music is a total showstopper.

Wouldn’t the substantially cheaper iTunes Match work for that? Otherwise, I don’t know how you intend to get music from ripped CDs onto the thing, especially if it requires a substantial amount of storage.

I honestly forgot Apple makes this product until it comes up occasionally on MR.

That has never happened here. Bought my first HomePod on release day 2+ years ago, and currently have four. Listen to them all every day, and considering a 5th. They're superb.

I had a lot of trouble making this to work. Of course I read hundreds of posts and tutorials. Also multiple HomePod resets, remove and add to Home, creating a new home, getting a new wife...However the thing that instantly solved all my issues was to turn on Siri on iPhone Settings > Your name > iCloud > Siri (Home and Keychain should be ticked too, but this are discussed on every tutorial). Siri should be allowed to access iCloud on both devices (yours and yours wife's).
After that, if isn't working yet, do the retraining Siri part for both and you are done.

I appreciate that but you name it, I’ve done it. It can recognize us half of the time maybe. Sometimes I’m her, she’s me, it doesn’t have any idea who either of us.


Well to be fair I haven’t tried a new wife. I mean I’ll run it past her, maybe some sort of sharing arrangement, but my hopes aren’t high.