I think it is transferring via airplay. It’s just quicker to do it with 
handoff, if handoff is working well for you.
Of course, I could be wrong. But I don’t see how else it would be transferring, 
even if it uses NFC which I don’t know. Isn’t it still using airplay? It 
certainly uses Wi-Fi. You can’t do it unless your HomePod and your phone on the 
same Wi-Fi network. It will not transfer if you’re using cellular.


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> On Mar 1, 2020, at 9:40 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I don't own a HomePod, but I'm curious, when something is transferred in 
> this way, wouldn't it be simply like sending it to the Homepod via Airplay?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mary 
> Otten
> Sent: Saturday, February 29, 2020 4:46 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: HomePod Question
> 
> After you transfer something to your HomePod, you can use your phone for 
> other things. You can lock the screen. But you cannot turn off the phone 
> entirely, or even close the app which is the source of the program on your 
> HomePod. Thus, it is not the same as a Chromecast, where you can completely 
> turn off your device once the Chromecast has taken over.
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Feb 29, 2020, at 12:57 PM, Agent086b <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> after you transfer what you are listening to on the phone to the Home Pod 
>> can you turn off your phone and go about your business?
>> Max.  
>> 
>>>> On 1 Mar 2020, at 1:13 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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