Learn to set an audio sleep timer on your HomePod to drift off to soothing sounds or a podcast without worrying about leaving it on all night.
Aside from the ability to set multiple timers and manage alarms on HomePod, your Siri-powered wireless speaker makes it possible to fall asleep to your favorite songs, podcasts, or ambient sounds.
With this you can set a sleep timer on your HomePod if you’d like to gently fall asleep to your favorite music or relaxing ambient sounds from nature, such as a crackling fireplace.
How to set sleep timers on HomePod
1) Ask Siri on HomePod to start playing your favorite playlist, album, song, podcast, or ambient soundtrack to which you’d like to fall asleep.
- “Hey Siri, play my Gym playlist.”
- “Hey Siri, play the newest episode of the Let’s Talk iOS podcast.”
- “Hey Siri, play forest sounds.”
2) With the audio playing, ask Siri to set up a sleep timer for a specific time limit:
- “Hey Siri, stop playing in 45 minutes.”
- “Hey Siri, set up a sleep timer for 30 minutes.”
Siri will respond by saying something along the lines of “Okay, I’ll stop playing in x minutes.” When the sleep timer is up, whatever that was playing on the speaker will gently fade away.
You can also ask Siri to set a timer without specifying a time limit — “Hey, Siri, create a sleep timer” — but Siri will follow up with a question asking, “For how long.”
Canceling your sleep timer is just as easy as creating it — simply say, “Hey, Siri, cancel the sleep timer.”
Some caveats apply here.
You can ask Siri to set up a sleep timer for anywhere from a couple of seconds to 23 hours and 59 minutes. What you cannot do is ask the assistant to set a sleep timer for a precise time, like 11 PM. And lastly, you obviously cannot make multiple sleep timers.
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