HomePod: Red spinning light
You’re resetting your HomePod speaker.
Applies to: HomePod and HomePod mini. What you see: red, spinning or running.
What Apple says to do
- Wait for the reset to finish, then set up your HomePod speaker again.
Source
Apple HomePod’s own support page, read on the date shown.
- Apple Support: Identify status lights on HomePod and HomePod mini — HomePod (2nd generation) and HomePod mini. support.apple.com Checked 2026-09-29.
The same colour on other speakers
Another maker’s speaker can use this colour for something else entirely.