Hi Ed,
What do you mean when you say location Hass to be on. I have location services 
available. But that applies to apps I guess, like whether you want them to be 
able to use location services and win. I’m not sure what you’re referring to 
when you’re talking about it with respect to the HomePod.
Mary


Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 2, 2020, at 7:04 AM, Ed Worrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The other setting that you might have to check and make sure is on is 
> location for both your HomePod and iPhone. If I turn off these settings the 
> hand off feature works only about half of the time.
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
>> On Mar 2, 2020, at 1:03 AM, Joshua Hendrickson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> There's a very nice speaker called The Tribit Stormbox speaker that is
>> also very good.  I like my google home if it would stay connected to
>> my iPhone viabluetooth also sounds very good.
>> 
>>> On 3/2/20, Simon A Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I've never heard the home pod as we can't get them here in new Zealand.
>>> 
>>> I do however have a few sonos play 1 devices although they aren't
>>> Bluetooth.
>>> 
>>> But what I have heard playing audio is the sonos move and it sounded pretty
>>> bloody good to me.
>>> 
>>> And they are similar in how they work to the home pod I believe.
>>> 
>>> The other speakers I personally like are the UE boom for which they have
>>> just added a new device called the hyper boom,
>>> 
>>> Might be worth a look
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
>>> Joshua Hendrickson
>>> Sent: Monday, 2 March 2020 9:01 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: HomePod Question
>>> 
>>> Hi Arnold.  What I'd do, is invest in a good bluetooth speaker.  I've got
>>> some very nice bluetooth speakers, and I can listen to bookshare books by
>>> using voice dream reader and the ebooks sound just fine.  I'd never purchase
>>> a home pod, they sound kind of junky to me.  I like my bose revolve plus
>>> speaker.
>>> 
>>> On 3/1/20, Arnold Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Mary,
>>>> Thanks to your last message, I will have to investigate whether this
>>>> iPhone
>>>> 6 is just too old to work with them. Also, I found the following link
>>>> as to how to reset your home pods. It would be worth a try, that is
>>>> just too much money to have invested in something that doesn't work
>>>> right. If this really long link doesn't work, google "how to reset
>>>> homepod" and it will find it.
>>>> 
>>>> Arnold Schmidt
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from  Arnold's  iPhone Six
>>>> https://9to5mac-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/9to5mac.com/2018/02/10/how-
>>>> to-factory-reset-your-homepod/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQCKAE%3D#or
>>>> igin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&prerenderSize=1&visibilityState=prer
>>>> ender&paddingTop=32&p2r=0&horizontalScrolling=0&csi=1&aoh=158304677141
>>>> 04&viewerUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Famp%2Fs%2F9to5mac.com%2F20
>>>> 18%2F02%2F10%2Fhow-to-factory-reset-your-homepod%2Famp%2F&history=1&st
>>>> orage=1&cid=1&cap=navigateTo%2Ccid%2CfullReplaceHistory%2Cfragment%2Cr
>>>> eplaceUrl
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 1, 2020, at 12:10 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Robert, I actually have two phones, one of which doesn’t have a Sim
>>>> card.
>>>> That one, a 7+, has never done handoff. My 10 R is the one where it
>>>> occasionally works. I would think the 10 R shouldn’t have any issues.
>>>> Mary
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 1, 2020, at 8:30 AM, Robert Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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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