HomePod: White pulsing light

What Apple says to do

1. Unlock your iPhone or iPad and hold it next to the speaker to continue setup.

The same colour on other speakers

Another maker’s speaker can use this colour for something else entirely.

• Echo: White — When you change the volume, white lights show the volume level.
• Nest: White lights slowly pulse — Your speaker is ready to set up.
• Nest: White lights run back and forth — Your speaker is connecting to Wi-Fi.
• Nest: White lights light up from left to right — Your speaker is downloading or installing an update.
• Nest: One solid white light, for about 10 minutes — Your speaker is reminding you that a notification is available.
• Nest: 4 white lights pulse quickly — The voice assistant is listening.
• Sonos: Solid white — The Sonos product is powered up and working properly.
• Sonos: Flashing white — The Sonos product is powered on and booting up.
• Sonos: Flashing orange and white — The Sonos product is updating, or a factory reset is in progress.
• Sonos: Flashing red and white — The Sonos product failed to update.
• Sonos: Flashing pattern of red, white, orange and green — The product is in a hardware diagnostic mode.

Other Apple HomePod lights

• Static white light
• White flashing light
• White spinning light
• Multicolored light
• Orange flashing light
• Green pulsing light
• Red spinning light
• All Apple HomePod lights on one page