Apple Confirms HomePod May Damage Wood Furniture [Images]

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Posted February 14, 2018 at 8:19pm by iClarified

Apple has acknowledged that its new HomePod speaker may leave white rings on the surface of wood furniture, reports WireCutter.

The site discovered the issue after placing the HomePod on an oiled butcher-block countertop and later on a wooden side table. Other reviewers and customers have reported the same problem.

Apple says “the marks can improve over several days after the speaker is removed from the wood surface” and if they don’t fade on their own, you can basically just go refinish the furniture—the exact advice Apple gave in an email to Wirecutter was to “try cleaning the surface with the manufacturer’s suggested oiling method.”

WireCutter notes that they haven't experienced this problem on glass, granite, nice MDF, polyurethane sealed wood, or IKEA bookcases. The HomePod was tested in the same place a Sonos One resides and it hadn't caused any damage in months.

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Apple Confirms HomePod May Damage Wood Furniture [Images]

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@Dr_Seamus: "Can confirm that #HomePod leaves a white ring on wooden furniture! Luckily we don't care about this crap TV unit. Others may not be so lucky."

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macnaz - February 15, 2018 at 8:56pm

Why white spots under every speakers such as Apple HomePod and Sonos One Speaker Every electric device has Electromagnetic Fields that gets dispersed in the surrounding space, this energy will transform in heat to the top of the wood causing burns to the gloss varnish finishing Its normal and it can happen with any electric device has no under enough left from wood surface to cool air venting

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A-non-e-moose - February 17, 2018 at 12:35am

I googled “white rings underneath speakers” or “white spots underneath speakers” to see what other products have this problem. All I see are Apple’s HomePods in the first 3 pages. What sources can you refer for any of us to see this as a “all speakers” problem and not just the HomePod?

lepaka - February 15, 2018 at 2:13pm

there is news that ... if you are a music lover, you have for sure good speakers systems, and it is clear that they will vibrate and will damage whatever is under. or you have a support to hold the speaker, or you have some rubber base under ... settled and no discussion.

Monz - February 15, 2018 at 12:52pm

#RingGate ?

Andreaja - February 15, 2018 at 12:35pm

Macbook pro touchbar with only 6 hour battery life, and then now home pod can marking your furniture, apple just gorgeous with timcook.

D4xM4Nx - February 15, 2018 at 12:00pm

It's just the HomePod warning is about the existence of the Halo rings... such a damn visionary company Apple is OMG!!! Johny is giving us time before the Forerunners get our collective asses :P

MUKAI - February 15, 2018 at 4:31am

There are those coasters used for drinks? Yea I knew that would of happened when I sold it but I did have a nice hand woven table runner.

Frank Ferrer - February 14, 2018 at 9:25pm

Please just put a little wood protective under the HomePod and the Drama is over... love my 4 HomePods in my Studio.

A-non-e-moose - February 14, 2018 at 10:33pm

Yay you give awesome advice after the damage. Thanks captain hindsight.

Yayaya - February 15, 2018 at 12:03am

What kind of Studio?

MUKAI - February 15, 2018 at 4:35am

Ok calm down fan boy, no one cares how many you have. I have 2 sonos one and do much better than 4.

Camfella - February 14, 2018 at 8:45pm

Jonny Ive said it’s just part of the design!

MUKAI - February 15, 2018 at 4:32am

Hahahaha he sure did say that.

Pyrocynical - February 14, 2018 at 8:45pm

Apple is dead. An overpriced company is killing them. Very very sad.

tobybartlett - February 14, 2018 at 8:27pm

This rollout just gets worse and worse. I’m hugging my 2006 iPod HiFi retrofitted with Bluetooth.