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PLAYLIST HOMEPOD TIPS AND TRICKS- KEEP EXPLICIT CONTENT
FROM BEING PLAYED ON
YOUR HOMEPOD
This is especially helpful if you have kids.
It’s basically the same step as above, but
you’re just pressing a different toggle.
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 Allow Explicit Content under the Music
& Podcasts section. And you’re done. - SET UP MULTI-ROOM
AUDIO WITH YOUR HOMEPOD
If you have several HomePods, you can also
set them up so they play the same music in
multiple rooms of the house. Once you’ve set
up all the HomePods on your account and
placed them, you can
say things like, “Hey,
Siri, play Chopin on
every speaker” and
every HomePod
will start cranking
out mazurkas.
Alternatively, you can
tell Siri to only play
the music through
specific speakers,
such as “the Living
Room.”
You can also
manually adjust multi-room HomePod
support by going to Control Center and
long-pressing the tile for the song that’s
playing. In the menu that pops up, you can
select which HomePods should be playing
the music and you can adjust their
volumes. It’s surprisingly simple.- PROTECT YOUR
FURNITURE FROM THE
DREADED WHITE RING
I can say from experience that the white
silicone pad under the HomePod does, in
fact, leave a white ring on some surfaces.
To protect these services, put a coaster or
something underneath the speaker. Some
companies even make specialized
coasters if you want to go nuts, and we’ve
got a few whimsical solutions (go.
macworld.com/whim) of our own. ■
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