Hi Mary,

My HomePods are in a stereo pair also.

Witch iPhone are you using? I am using the 11 pro. If you have an older phone, 
I am wondering if the handoff feature works better with the new hardware? If 
you have a new phone then never mind.

Robert Carter



> On Feb 29, 2020, at 6:43 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Robert,
> What you did with your book share book is exactly what I have done when I 
> have tried the handoff feature. It’s just that most of the time, it doesn’t 
> work for me. That’s my problem. And I don’t think there has ever been a time 
> when it has worked with a voice over voice. I actually have a stereo pair. I 
> don’t know why that should make a difference. I’ve tried both parts of my 
> stereo pair, and both work intermittently as described.
> Mary
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Feb 29, 2020, at 6:13 AM, Robert Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Mary and list,
>> 
>> To make sure that I wasn’t giving bad information, I just started a 
>> BookShare book reading on my iPhone. I was using the James voice. I then 
>> held my phone near the HomePod. The phone gave a little haptic click and 
>> said transferring to HomePod. The James voice immediately began to read the 
>> book through the HomePod.
>> 
>> I then held the phone near the HomePod again and got the haptic vibration 
>> and the phone said transferring to iPhone. The James voice again came 
>> through the iPhone.
>> 
>> Robert Carter
>> 
>>> On Feb 28, 2020, at 3:17 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Robert,
>>> I have had very spotty luck with handoff. I have never gotten anything to 
>>> transfer from one of my phones, even though it’s on the same Wi-Fi network 
>>> as my HomePod. And some of the time, the other one doesn’t work right 
>>> either. And I have never had anything that was being read, such as a Kindle 
>>> book by voiceover or a voice dream book by voiceover transfer. I haven’t 
>>> tried it that much, but it has never worked, making me wonder what the heck 
>>> is up.
>>> Mary
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 28, 2020, at 5:45 AM, Robert Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> When audio is playing on the iPhone, you can bring the phone near the 
>>>> HomePod and handoff the audio to the HomePod.
>>>> 
>>>> Robert Carter
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 28, 2020, at 7:25 AM, Arnold Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> i listened to an AppleVis podcast about the HomePod, and I have a 
>>>>> question. I noticed that when she was playing something from her phone, 
>>>>> VoiceOver was still coming from her phone, not the HomePod. I understand 
>>>>> that air play works this way, but would it air play material from,  say, 
>>>>> Kindle that VoiceOver would be reading to the HomePod? How about from 
>>>>> Voice Dream Reader, or Ootunes. I want to know this before I spend the 
>>>>> money for a HomePod, only to discover that I can't play Kindle or 
>>>>> VoiceDream books through it. Thanks for any information. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Arnold Schmidt 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from  Arnold's  iPhone Six
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