How to Use HomePod as Speaker for Apple TV

The HomePod offers awesome sound, and with AirPlay network, you can set the HomePod up to work as a speaker for your Apple TV, directing Apple TV sound through the HomePod.

You can utilize Apple TV and HomePod together as long as you have a third, fourth, or fifth-age Apple TV

Pairing Apple TV and HomePod

1. Open the Settings app on the Apple TV.
2. Scroll down to the Video and Audio section and select it.
3. Choose “Audio Output.”
4. Select the HomePod icon from the list of available devices.

Once the Apple TV is matched with the HomePod, TV sound will be directed through your HomePod rather than through your TV. Utilizing the HomePod’s physical controls, you can change the volume of the Apple TV, or you can request that Siri do as such. You can likewise play/delay content through the highest point of the HomePod or through Siri.

Unpairing Apple TV and HomePod

You’ll apparently need to utilize your HomePod for purposes past playing sound from the Apple TV, and unpairing is done through similar settings you used to combine the HomePod and Apple TV in any case.

1. Open the Settings app on the Apple TV.
2. Scroll down to the Video and Audio section and select it.
3. Choose “Audio Output.”
4. Click on the HomePod icon from the list of available devices to deselect it.

Choosing Audio Output Device with the Apple TV Remote

You can likewise pick your HomePod as your sound yield gadget utilizing your Apple TV Remote, which is a speedier method to swap between gadgets.

1. Go to the Home screen of the Apple TV.
2. Hold down the Play/Pause button on the Apple TV Remote.
3. In the menu that comes up, select the HomePod option.

To backpedal to utilizing the Apple TV sound, you can rehash similar strides above, yet this time select your Apple TV rather than the HomePod.

In a future refresh to iOS 11, Apple intends to present help for blending two HomePods together for what might as well be called stereo sound. Once double HomePod matching is accessible, you’ll have the capacity to utilize two HomePods with the Apple TV for far and away superior sound.