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- RESTRICT NETWORK
ACCESS TO YOUR HOMEPOD
Siri isn’t smart enough to tell different
voices apart, but you can make sure your
neighbor doesn’t use to start playing
music. Go to the Home app on your
iPhone, then press the icon that looks like
a house in the upper left. Scroll down to
the heading that says Speakers & TVs and
press Allow Speaker & TV Access. You’ll
see options to allow Everyone to access it,
Anyone on the Same Network, or Only
People Sharing This Home. Choose what’s
best. If you want to be hardcore, there’s an
option to set a password as well.
- ENJOY STEREO SOUND
WITH TWO HOMEPODS
If you have two HomePods, you can sync
them so both of them act as the left and
right speakers of a
traditional speaker
system. When you’re
setting up a new
HomePod and you
assign it to the same
room as an existing
HomePod, you’ll get
a message asking if
you want to turn
them into a stereo
pair. Say yes and
you’re done.
- KEEP OTHERS FROM
MESSING WITH YOUR
RECOMMENDATIONS
If your HomePod is shared in a
household, there’s a good chance that
friends or family members with different
tastes can mess up your personalized
Apple Music playlists.
This same setting allows friends on
Apple Music to see music that you’ve
recently listened to. Thankfully, there’s an
easy way to turn that off.
Open the Home app, then hold your
finger down on the icon for the
HomePod for a few seconds. Click
Settings in the bottom right of the new
menu that pops up. In the next menu,
untoggle the setting that says Use
Listening History under the Music &
Podcasts section. And you’re done.
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