Hi.  I never experienced delays. I am sure you are not alone (there is plenty of evidence you weren’t), but I suspect there has been a vast, silent majority experiencing no lag problems, and therefore having no reason to come onto this forum to comment.

Please see this post from two weeks ago showing a perfectly functioning volume slider.

Glad to hear the positive. I updated this morning and fingers crossed their’s no new bugs, only fixes. 
 

I haven’t experienced the pause and volume change delays in a few months. On the new garbage app release back in May volume and pause commands from the app were taking 30 seconds+ to work on my system. It’s crazy that they released such a trash app and are taking so long to fix everything. Still not feature parity and not stability parity IME. 

There is every chance that the impfovement you have seen was caused not by a bug fix, but by the reboot of the system as part of the update.  There is no question that the May launch of the new app was a mess, and I agree totally that functionality is still not back to what it was.  But the new app gets blamed for everything that goes wrong now, with the result that users just wait for a bug fix instead of addressing their local problem.

Sonos posted a message across all their socials yesterday that they acknowledge there are still issues with the app. We are now in the 8th month of Sonos trying to fix their POS app and firmware updates 

 But yeah maybe it was the reboot from firmware update that finally fixed it for them.  Not the update itself. 

The latest update from the CIO mentions testers who are further from the AWS data centres so they can better test latency issues. That's probably the closest we will get to an admission from Sonos about the role the external Cloud services play in the poor performance some of us are experiencing.

It also explains why those of us with the tools to check are not seeing local network issues when we check.