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Setting / changing alarms in new app


Manisboy
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I have updated to the new app. Like the new layout, but how do I access, set and remove alarms on my system, now? 

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floresep
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  • Enthusiast I
  • 23 replies
  • May 8, 2024

You don't. You have to wait until our overlords decide to include that feature, (amongst a handful of others that were removed,) back in on a future update.


floresep
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  • Enthusiast I
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  • May 8, 2024

Actually the official statement posted on some of the other threads is to use the Windows or Mac OS desktop app. It is the only remaining app to not have been updated. Also keep your devices from updating to the new app until they roll back in the removed features.


floresep
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  • Enthusiast I
  • 23 replies
  • May 8, 2024

If you want to prevent the app update from loading on your devices:

Turn off automatic updates

iOS:

https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-auto-update-iphone-5206079 

 

Android:

https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-automatic-updates-on-android-5192496#toc-how-to-turn-off-automatic-app-updates-on-an-android-phone 

(Scroll a bit further to next section titled "Stop Automatic Updates for Specific Apps")


  • Contributor I
  • 5 replies
  • May 8, 2024

So no way to set up alarm or sleep timer ? I can’t find them. 
for me new UI is not good


  • Lyricist I
  • 1 reply
  • May 8, 2024

I love my Sonos and use the sleep timer and alarm options every day. 
 

I spent 10 minutes browsing the new app last night looking for both these things and thought I was going crazy not being able to see them on the new app. I my husband realised it must be the new app and did not update his app because I needed to set the sleep timer and confirm my alarms were set.
 

Please bring back these two functions. My whole family uses the Sonos alarm every morning! 
 


  • Lyricist I
  • 2 replies
  • May 8, 2024

What a let down !!!  these are must have functions !!!  Get used every day !!! 
 

Have to say very disappointed and a little p’d off 
 

Sort it fast @sonos !!!


  • Contributor I
  • 4 replies
  • May 8, 2024

Please bring back sleep timer, we used this function every evening!! 


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  • Lyricist III
  • 11 replies
  • May 8, 2024

What in the actual hell are you thinking at Sonos???? If there is no option to set or change an alarm the product is virtually USELESS to me. I can’t believe this is teal just spent 20 minutes searching through the new app


Byrom
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  • Lyricist III
  • 11 replies
  • May 8, 2024

Like others above I’m not impressed with the fact that you can’t set alarms with the App update. Why send out an update which doesn’t contain the basics. Luckily the wife hasn’t updated to new App. Come on Sonos establish what your users want and need. 


  • Lyricist I
  • 1 reply
  • May 8, 2024

need alarms back, your updated app, SUCKS!


  • Lyricist II
  • 4 replies
  • May 8, 2024

What a terrible omission! How did all the Beta testing miss this? An absolute essential.


Agree: Dear Sonos, please put the alarm function back in iOS app ASAP. Used very often by myself and family. Thanks.


  • Lyricist I
  • 1 reply
  • May 8, 2024

Will previously set alarms work or are they cancelled? Wanted to change my 6.20 AM alarm tomorrow as it is a holiday… is the only way to be sure the alarm doesn’t go off to unplug the speaker?!! 😳


Byrom
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  • Lyricist III
  • 11 replies
  • May 8, 2024

Go safe…. Unplug… good sleep is better than bad App update!!!


Been desperate for an updated app but now got one without the most basic of features and something I used everyday. Clutching defeat from the jaws of victory again, Sonos. Well done you. 


  • Lyricist I
  • 1 reply
  • May 8, 2024

Dear Sonos team, please put the alarm function back in iOS app. My family and I use it daily otherwise your speakers are pretty useless for us and they’ll be used as paper weights and we certainly won’t be buying anymore. It’s one of the basic things that makes this sound system better than the rest!


Manisboy
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  • Contributor II
  • 6 replies
  • May 8, 2024
floresep wrote:

Actually the official statement posted on some of the other threads is to use the Windows or Mac OS desktop app. It is the only remaining app to not have been updated. Also keep your devices from updating to the new app until they roll back in the removed features.

Thank you, I appreciate your input, floresep. 
 


  • Lyricist I
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  • May 9, 2024

MY MIND IS BLOWN THAT THE ALARM FEATURE WAS OVERLOOKED OR PURPOSEFULLY OMITTED. I WAS HOPING IT WAS JUST A POOR UX DECISION AFTER 10 MINUTES OF TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE LOOKING FOR IT.

SONOS TEAM, PLEASE BRING IT BACK. 


  • Lyricist II
  • 3 replies
  • May 9, 2024

Major pissed off. First I could not find the sonos app. Offcourse it got updated. Looks nice. Then i Spent the last 2 hours trying to find my alarms. Can someone tell me how to get to it in the android app. Also when you play music you can not add to queue. Wtf is all that about. Why leave these out. I rely heavily on my somos alarms.


Beyond belief!  Like an idiot, I updated this morning when prompted. How the hell do I make it to tomorrow’s 7:30 am meeting?


  • Lyricist I
  • 1 reply
  • May 9, 2024

Hey, Sonos.  Please, please listen to everyone here and add this feature into the app ASAP.  It’s absolutely my most-used feature, and apparently I’m not the only customer that this is true for.


Byrom
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  • Lyricist III
  • 11 replies
  • May 9, 2024

So loads of us on here and other streams saying what’s wrong. But no comments / replies from Sonos. Anyone got a route to raise this from a moan to getting it fixed?


  • Lyricist I
  • 1 reply
  • May 9, 2024

Beyond words.  Sonos, please correct this problem!


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  • Lyricist III
  • 11 replies
  • May 9, 2024

Maybe it will be addressed here


  • Lyricist I
  • 1 reply
  • May 9, 2024

Totally agree with everyone else. I use the alarm feature every day and find it absolutely essential.

Can’t believe that it was omitted from the update.


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