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Your feedback on the new Sonos App

Hi EveryoneWe moderators of the community - @Corry P, @Jamie A & @Sotiris C. - wanted to take an opportunity to explain some of what is...
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What formats can I play on Sonos?

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Sonos Pro Tip: Upgrading/Changing iPhones

HelloI had meant to post this 3 years ago when I upgraded to my iPhone 12. Well the time has come to upgrade to iPhone 15. The best way to m...
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Corry P
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Your feedback on the new Sonos App

Hi EveryoneWe moderators of the community - @Corry P, @Jamie A & @Sotiris C. - wanted to take an opportunity to explain some of what is currently happening on the community.First of all, we value all the feedback you are providing about the new Sonos App. We hear you. Feedback is coming in fast and thick, however - for understandable reasons - and to be frank, we are having trouble just keeping up with it all. For this reason, some topics that have not yet been replied to will go unanswered. We will, however, do our best to amalgamate some of these separate threads into bigger, related threads (such as one big thread for Alarm complaints and another for Queue Management) to be answered en-mass. The threads that are feedback on other aspects of the new app will be merged with this post.Threads that describe issues such as missing rooms and app crashes (those that are not just feedback, in other words) will be answered, as will threads not relating to the new app in anyway, but these

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Can't add new product in The New App

Hi folksAnyone have problem add a new speaker to the app? I just upgrade from the Playbase to a Ray…and the app crashes and i’m stuck. Anyone have the same issue….and yes…i try add the Playbase again but the app crash here as well. I have been in contact with Sonos support,but they could not help me…they say i might just wait a few days utill they have fix the problem.Have a Good Day👍

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tsdsContributor I
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horrible update to app

sonos what have you done ? the app was working fine - now a nightmare no group volume can’t shut music off in one room no sleep timer very very disappointed  

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Wazzer150864Contributor II
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New App: Why Sonos, Why!

I am very disappointed by the new App. For years I have created playlists on my PC and loaded digital albums. Now I can’t access them, or if I find one I can only select and play one track at a time and not the whole playlist or album. I refuse to be forced down the streaming from a paid for platform route!We really need the option to rollback this update, it is ill conceived, created without the end user in mind and does a complete disservice to the Sonos brand.Please do not update the desktop app to replicate this terrible changes. At least for now I can walk across the room to select and play my music from my PC, even if I can’t do it from my IOS device anymore!  

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klrmlrContributor I
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How to revert to the last app version?

The new app is horrible. I wish I hadn’t had auto update turned on and could still use the old app. Anyone know how to revert back to the previous app? 

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PMXContributor I
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Sammel-Thread über externe News zum katastrophalen Update

Ich fang mal an: »New Sonos app breaks accessibility for visually impaired users, here’s what this advocate recommends«https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/09/new-sonos-app-breaks-accessibility-for-visually-impaired/ »Der neuen Sonos-App fehlen etliche Lautsprecher-Funktionen«https://www.golem.de/news/hersteller-bestaetigt-offiziell-der-neuen-sonos-app-fehlen-etliche-lautsprecher-funktionen-2405-184977.html »Haufenweise Probleme: Sonos-User klagen über neue Smartphone-App«https://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cb-News-Lautsprecher-Sonos-User-klagen-ueber-neue-Smartphone-App-38444643.html»Sonos-Update löscht LautsprecherfunktionenPer Softwareupdate hat Sonos viele seiner Kunden gegen sich aufgebracht. Das Unternehmen spricht von einem »mutigen« Schritt, Nutzer vermissen lieb gewonnene Funktionen.«https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/sonos-software-update-killt-lautsprecherfunktionen-a-06d669dd-d649-4482-a2e4-277f6ac4e130 »Neue Sonos-App sorgt für Kopfschütteln: Kunden sollen Monate warten«https://w

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Kunst.fransContributor I
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the new sonos app

The new app is a complete slap in the face of the user and it renders the expensive Sonos equipment virtually useless. The previous app may not have been always user friendly but we have learnt to wiork with it to satisfaction.  The new app is horrible and i would never recommend the system to anybody before the old app is reinstated or somethong workable is produced.

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Woodie52Contributor I
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Connecting iPhone to Wifi-connected Port

I have a Wifi-connected Sonos Port that works fine with my Android phone app, but we can’t connect my wife’s iPhone, which can’t find the Port on our LAN.

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cmackayContributor II
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Sonos app - loss of functionality

The new SONOS app is horrible.  I cannot believe it has been released without the Alarm function!!  I can live with all the other removals but for DAILY ALARMS people use to wake up to go to work SONOS did not believe were basic or important enough to include in their new, “better” app.This is treating loyal, some might say long-suffering, users spending significant amounts of money on their high priced equipment with disdain.  I am SO upset with SONOS for doing this.Their recommendation to just go use another computer (Windows or Mac) to do this assumes everyone has a computer to do that on.  Most people don’t, and those that do it may be a work computer locked down and unable to sort this.What if I had an alarm set for 5am and now every day I have to wake up at 5am because SONOS hate their customers?  This is RUBBISH!!!  As for the rest of it, like removing sleep timers, Android widgets, volume controls, etc. again, it treats SONOS CUSTOMERS like rubbish.SONOS - give us the ability t

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TheMusicContributor II
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Revert App on App Store?

I just got screwed for tomorrow. I use the Sonos speaker in my room as my alarm with my phone to control, and once I updated to the new app, that was the end of that. No ability to add, edit or adjust alarms from the new phone app. I do not have a desktop app which is support’s idea of a workaround for releasing an unfinished app with no way to revert the old app..? The workaround should be to revert and wait till the app has the same or better functionality. If I had the option to revert to the old app on the App Store this would not have been an issue.  Please let us all go back until this app has parity with the old app (at least!).

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amdyhouContributor I
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Don't accept this app!

Dear Community,Many Sonos customers are angry and unhappy at what Sonos has done in releasing a new app which removes a vast amount of functionality, much of it basic stuff, with just the promise that it will be re-added over forthcoming releases. I personally feel that Sonos has treated its customers with derision, and I’m angry and unhappy that this new app was released in such a poor state of development.I have pursued my complaint, asking that the old app is made available again to iOS users whilst the new app is developed to an acceptable level which includes the last functionality.I am asking the community to back this by:Call customer service and demand that your complaint is escalated to the highest level. Don’t accept the “standard” reply that the 1st line customer reps have been given to respond to you … that the functionality will be added over forthcoming releases. Insist it is this is not acceptable and ask for your complaint to be escalated. Unfortunately, it can take ove

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AntifonProdigy II
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NOSON - short term work-around, long term opportunity?

I’m one of those smug, self-satisfied people who has auto-update turned off, and who expected to be able to stay with the old app until this mess has been sorted out. But no - even with auto-update set to “off” my app has been updated and now my TuneIn stations won’t work and my Network Shares won’t work. Just the helpful error message “Something went wrong”.However… the open source client NOSON still appears to work perfectly. I can still play tracks from my Network Attached Server, can set alarms, can play all of my TuneIn based radio stations - can even play music from the PC’s local disks.Of course it’s only a solution if you already run one of the common versions of Linux (you can install a current version of NOSON for free straight out of the standard repositories), or with Windows/Mac, if you’re willing to run it under something like VMWare - not technically difficult but a bit of a pain to have to do.But it did make me wonder - if a one-man development team can do such a great

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JeswestContributor I
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New version is terrible in every way

This is the worst application update I've ever seen. The interface is clunky, slow, and hard to use. So much real estate is given away to blobby, pointless chrome. Have their been any usability reviews done on this? So much functionality has been lost or broken: no alarms, no ability to long press a song in the Playlist to get info. This should never have been released in this state. I imagine a lot of money was sunk into developing this, but don't fall for the sunk-cost fallacy. This is a terrible step backwards, it needs to be abandoned. 

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MikeDave06Contributor I
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😱 Nouvelle version Sonos - Catastrophe

Cette mise à jour de l’application Sonos est une véritable catastrophe.Le réglage du son ne répond plus, les alarmes ont disparue, j’en passe et des meilleures.D’une manière générale, plus le temps passe, plus la qualité du service diminue et dysfonctionne.Autrefois, l’application pouvait être utilisée intuitivement par n’importe qui. C’est terminé. Tout est devenu incompréhensible.J’espère que Sonos va réagir rapidement.Je pense qu’on va voir énormément de matériel d’occasion à vendre sur Leboncoin et sur eBay… 

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memusicaContributor I
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playlists

In the new Sonos I can’t find my playlists any more nor can I add songs to them. Only Sonos favourites. Am I doing something wrong or is it the new app? If the latter, why is Sonos doing this?

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BlueroanContributor I
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my playlists

I have lost all my playlists after downloading the new Sonos app. I am absolutely mortified do Sonos realise they will not have a business if they do not resolve this enormous issue.They also need to build back in the ability to create a playlist and add and subtract to a playlist otherwise I will get rid of Sonos altogether. Is anyone organising a petition?

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dukieb78Contributor I
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Update

I just updated the Sonos app and now I see none of my saved Sonos playlists. Where did they go?

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TS51Contributor I
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new App

As a longtime Sonos customer I am extremely disappointed in this latest Sonos App update.  Frankly, it is a ‘buggy’ mess!  No timer, room selections don’t lock and select “by themselves”, music selection non-functional, the list goes on and on. There should have been much better beta testing before putting this version into production.  I wish I could undo this update. 

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Kumar
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Sonos - a possible road ahead for the app

I have seen the firestorm break out in 2020 over S2 and a bigger one now over the May 24 App.My view, for someone to take forward inside Sonos in any way that makes sense. If it makes sense.Sonos hardware is neutral to what it plays. It will serve just as well for Apple Music as it will for Spotify. Or for radio stations. Or even, let us remember, for local libraries on a NAS. Obviously this is the sensible thing to do, as compared to offering hardware that only plays music via Sonos; letting users choose from providers that do music services best, is the approach that has worked very well till now.Why can the same thinking not guide how the app works? I will take a simple use case to elaborate, of someone using Sonos hardware for playing music from Spotify and from a local NAS. Also for simplicity, let us keep aside the SMB stuff where local NAS is concerned.In the above use case, the Sonos control app needs to do just two things - first, to set up and configure Sonos hardware and the

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SoundCurContributor I
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Warning about New App - Do Not Update if you use alarm & other features

SONOS has seen fit to release an update on its app with some features absent.If you want to use the alarm or sleep timer then (caps lock alert): DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT UPDATING. Other features, which I don’t use so am unaware of their absence, may not be available too.The “Customer Experience” team has told me: “features such as playlist creation and queue editing within the Sonos app, sleep timers, and local library support will not be available at launch, but will be added to the app on a rolling basis over the coming months”. Months??!! I used to use the alarm feature every day -  not now thanks to this “upgrade”. Why SONOS has launched an app update that’s clearly not ready for general release beyond beta is beyond me.The whole thing is an utter shambles and spoils the SONOS brand.This customer is not happy with his experience. 

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Trad99Renowned Enthusiast I
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Please can we go back to the old app

I’ve been struggling with this new app for two hours now. So many things are missing or difficult to use compared to the old app. Please, can you continue to make the old app available for people who still prefer to use that one. I was fine with that app, and would like to revert to using it. Please give us a way to do that.

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MusicMan59Contributor I
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What just happend with the "New SONOS app"?

I just wished I consulted the Community BEFORE upgrading to the NEW app (which I would have postponed until the SONOS dev came back to reality...). I am all for changes, fixes and new features (fixes and new features, in that order and not new features over fixes… spend time fixing existing problems before throwing more features into the mix).When comparing moving from Sonos S1 to S2, THIS upgrade is a disaster (it did cross my mind that SONOS pushed the BETA version of the apps instead of the final tested version...). What happend to the TuneIN stations preset, art covers, alarm set-up? The email we all received about 2 weeks ago did not mentionned any of this for existing users. I just hope SONOS will react to all the comments about this upgrade and provide a way to return to the previous version, until the new version is acceptable.

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AWD-901Contributor I
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New app is terrible

Don’t upgrade to the new app! The UI is not intuitive and functions that I used, like the sleep function are gone. It’s difficult to play from a streaming service. Couldn’t believe that things could get worse, but they have. The first few years of using Sonos were great, but the last couple of years have been plagued with problems. Don’t understand how they expect to sell products when the app is so flaky and you need to use it to play anything. They should have done more user testing before going live.

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hans_trossinContributor I
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Worst Update Ever

After an automatic update to the new Android App, 80.xxx..., I understand that the alarm and snooze functions have disappeared. But additionally my Sonos favorites (podcasts) are unplayable. When I search again for a favorite podcast, I can see its chapters in the found podcast, but adding it to my favorites and trying to play it out of my favorites list always and without exception leads to an unspecific error message. On my wife's Poco mobile, the new app every time crashes right from the start. This is truly the shittiest update I have ever received!

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KURTIContributor I
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app update

Nothing working anymoreSlow to no reactionViews/lists disappearingApp constantly crashingAs if there was no competition on the market

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