How to create a HomePod or HomePod mini stereo pair

(Pocket-lint) - If you person an Apple HomePod oregon a HomePod mini and you privation to link 2 HomePods oregon 2 HomePod minis to make a stereo pair, allowing you to make a wider, much immersive dependable stage, we've got you covered.

You tin acceptable up stereo pairing erstwhile you initially setup your HomePod oregon HomePod mini, but it's besides imaginable to bash it astatine a aboriginal date. If you're wondering however you link 1 HomePod oregon HomePod mini to the other, support speechmaking and we volition locomotion you done the process.

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How to make a HomePod stereo pair

First of all, it's lone imaginable to stereo brace a HomePod to different HomePod oregon a HomePod mini to different HomePod mini. You can't stereo brace a HomePod to a HomePod mini. You volition besides request to marque definite the 2 HomePods you privation to stereo brace are assigned to the aforesaid room.

If you person 2 HomePods oregon HomePod minis though, and they are assigned to the aforesaid room, travel the steps below:

1. Make definite your HomePods oregon HomePod minis are moving iOS 11.4 oregon later.
2. Open the Home app connected your iPhone oregon iPad.
3. Touch and clasp a HomePod successful the list.
4. Scroll down and pat connected the Settings cog.
5. Tap 'Create Stereo Pair'.
6. Follow the onscreen instructions, specified arsenic selecting which volition beryllium near and right.

The caller paired HomePods volition amusement up successful Apple Music, iTunes, AirPlay, and everyplace other connected your Apple devices arsenic a azygous pair, which volition play the contented you watercourse to it successful stereo audio.

Before you ask, you can't brace 3 HomePods together, though you tin person much than 2 HomePods (i.e. a brace and a azygous HomePod for example) successful the aforesaid country controlled via the aforesaid portion successful the Apple Home app.

You tin find much tips and tricks successful our best Apple HomePod tips and tricks feature.

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How HomePod stereo pairing works

When you play the archetypal opus pursuing your HomePods being paired, each HomePod successful the brace volition observe its placement successful the country and set itself appropriately.

The bass EQ mic of each measures and shares archetypal accusation and applies the aforesaid filter for accordant bass dependable for the situation crossed the 2 speakers, according to Apple.

Once done, the near HomePod not lone plays conscionable the near channel, but besides separates and beams some the ambient near and nonstop near energy, portion the close HomePod does the aforesaid for the close transmission efficaciously balancing the load betwixt the 2 speakers alternatively than conscionable making everything doubly arsenic loud.

How to unpair HomePods that are stereo paired

To unpair your HomePods oregon HomePod minis, travel the instuctions below:

1. Go to the Home app connected your iPhone oregon iPad.
2. Touch and clasp HomePod pair.
3. Scroll down and pat connected the Settings cog.
4. Tap "Ungroup Accessories".

Writing by Stuart Miles. Editing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 30 May 2018.