User level: Level 1 (4 points)In my AirPlay menu when I play music to a room, all four of my rooms with and Apple TV and linked HomePods show up as “Home Theater” now instead of their respective room names, so I can’t tell which one I’m playing until
I hear it playing. I want my names back 😭
Posted on Oct 30, 2026 3:51 PM
User level: Level 8 (38,420 points)Nov 5, 2026 11:04 PM in response to Aarbear1
You can rename them . In the Home App - Tap on the home theatre group icon and change “Home Theatre” to the name of your room.
User level: Level 1 (14 points)Nov 4, 2026 11:53 AM in response to Aarbear1
Infuriating . Why did Apple impose this on us? You’d think they’d like people to have multiple HomePods throughout their homes. Force naming all of them to “Home Theater” creates the most unnecessary disruptions and headaches when trying to control volume or content played through any or all of them.
Apple better fix this immediately
User level: Level 8 (38,420 points)Nov 4, 2026 12:18 PM in response to Aarbear1
I can’t say for sure because I can’t test this but could it be if you added those rooms to airplay to in the audio settings on Apple TV? I haven’t added the others in that setting, I use control center to airplay to the other rooms. The only one saying “Home Theatre” is the HomePods set as default audio to my Apple TV. However I have two of them in the list that appear to be the same thing.
User level: Level 1 (18 points)Oct 31, 2026 5:17 AM in response to Aarbear1
I believe it's related to the recent HOME upgrade. Both of my Apple TV 4Ks ARC channels stopped working with Comcast boxes as well.
User level: Level 1 (4 points)Oct 31, 2026 10:17 AM in response to BobbyFranc
Luckily my arc setups still work, I hope they get it cleared up!
User level: Level 1 (18 points)Nov 1, 2026 2:57 AM in response to BobbyFranc
It seems that the "home theater" icons are in alphabetical order i.e. Bedroom is the first Home Theater and Living Room is the second Home Theater in my setup.
User level: Level 1 (14 points)Nov 5, 2026 4:56 AM in response to BobbyFranc
It’s not in alphabetical order for me
User level: Level 8 (38,420 points)Nov 5, 2026 9:08 PM in response to Aarbear1
Make sure all of your Apple devices, including iPhone etc are all updated to 27.2 to see if this resolves it.
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256386140