Find my phone stopped working from homepod
I use find my phone often by asking siri on my homepod.
However without changing anything siri now says "before I can help with that you'll need to update your information in siri settings on your iphone "
Now there is no siri settings on the phone there is in settings a section for siri and search. Which exact settings do I need to change?
I found my phone by logging into icloud on my desktop and running find my from there. My phone made a sound with no problem. Using find my from my ipad made the phone make a sound as well
So what does the homepod need and will that change how my desktop or ipad finds the phone? All running ios 14
I encountered this problem when trying to launch a third party app via Homepod, either directly or in a Shortcut. Turns out you have to give explicit permission for Siri to use it with a particular app. Go to Settings -> Siri & Search
on your iPhone, scroll down to the list of apps, open the app you wish to use with Siri, scroll down and turn on "Use with Ask Siri"
. If you hear Siri saying this when trying to use Apple own apps like Find My, the only thing I can think about is enabling Personal Requests, as described here https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/homepod/apd779d9bb45/1.0/homepod/1.0#apdf41297105