If you're listening to audio connected your iPhone and bring it adjacent to a HomePod mini, the Handoff diagnostic volition beryllium activated. This nonfiction explains what Handoff is and however you tin disable it.

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The ‌‌HomePod mini‌‌ and ‌‌iPhone‌‌ 11 and aboriginal models each person Apple's U1 Ultra Wideband chip, which allows the devices to much precisely find and support way of 1 another. The U1 spot besides allows for much precocious Handoff features, which means it's a batch easier to transportation playing audio from ‌iPhone‌ to HomePod.

If you're listening to a opus connected your ‌‌iPhone‌‌ and bring the telephone adjacent a ‌‌HomePod mini‌‌, you volition announcement visual, audio, and haptic effects indicating Handoff is active. As the ‌‌iPhone‌‌ gets person to the ‌‌HomePod mini‌‌'s location, it begins a brushed haptic interaction bushed that gets faster and faster arsenic the ‌‌iPhone‌‌ continues to attack the ‌‌HomePod mini‌‌. Eventually, the opus transportation interface options up, and the opus transitions from the ‌‌iPhone‌‌ to the mini.

Transferring a opus is quicker and much reliable with these ocular and haptic-based transportation cues, but what if you find the Handoff diagnostic annoying? Perhaps you person the ‌HomePod mini‌ sat connected your desk, making the haptic cues a continual distraction. Fortunately, you tin disable Handoff truthful that your devices disregard each different erstwhile successful adjacent proximity. The pursuing steps amusement you however it's done.

  1. On your ‌iPhone‌, motorboat the Settings app.
  2. Tap General.
  3. Tap AirPlay & Handoff.
  4. Toggle disconnected the power adjacent to Transfer to HomePod.

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That's each determination is to it. You volition nary longer person haptic feedback from your ‌iPhone‌ erstwhile playing audio adjacent your ‌HomePod mini‌. Note that your ‌iPhone‌ volition nary longer show playback controls that you tin entree without unlocking it, truthful you'll besides suffer this mode to manually power contented playing connected the ‌‌HomePod mini‌‌.

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