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8th Sept 2026 - 📲New Sonos App & Player Updates Now Available!🔊

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September 8, 2026
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Howdy y’all! We have a new Sonos App update out today and it’s a really big one: Android widgets, rearranging your list of music services, portable surrounds(!), and so much more. A more complete list is below and the full list of changes can be found in our App release notes and Player release notes.

This update is rolling out in phases, so it may take up to two weeks to reach your device. No action is needed - it will install automatically once it's available to you (if Automatic Updates are enabled).

iOS users: You can check availability early by opening the App Store, tapping your account icon, and pulling down to refresh. If it's not there yet, that means the update hasn't reached your device in the rollout. It's on the way.

App Update Details

iOS - 89.00.54

Android - 89.00.49

Player Update Details

Modern Players - 97.1-80312

Legacy Players - 86.10.80260

New Sonos App features in this update:

Our new navigation experience is coming to you! This will be rolling out in phases over the next month and removing the “Enable Improved Navigation” toggle.

MCP Support - Sonos 27mcp brings our partnership with Anthropic and OpenAI to Sonos. Train your own personal agents to learn and play your favorite music. You can try it out here!

Virtual Volume Knob - Easily control the volume of your current room or group with a two-finger tap-and-rotate gesture on any screen.

Reorder Music Services - Added ability to rearrange your list of connected services.

Delete Recently Played - Added ability to delete items from Recently Played.

Swipe-based queue actions when browsing - Easily add items to the current queue with a swipe-right gesture.

Updated iPad layout - Additional iPad layout improvements to make better use of larger screen sizes.

Easily refresh the Sonos app - Pull down to refresh content on the Home tab.

Home Theater improvements for iOS App Intents - Additional iOS Shortcuts actions, now supporting Night Sound and Speech Enhancement for home theater products.

Album and artist info - Easily access Artist and Album pages by tapping on Now Playing content metadata.

Saved Groups - Added ability to reorder your Groups at the top of the grouping menu.

Portable Surrounds - Use a pair of compatible portable speakers as dynamic rear surrounds for supported soundbars.
Android App Widgets - Enable Sonos control widgets on your Android home screen.

From all of us here at Sonos we want to give a big “Thank you” to all of you, our fans and customers, and look forward to hearing your thoughts on these changes! As always, if you have any questions or feedback, please leave a comment below and tell us what’s on your mind.

Edit: I forgot about the Android App widget!

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craigski

Local Superstar

The novelty has worn off now, back to using 1 hand and thumb to change volume, rather than 2 hands and 2 fingers. Will still use (rarely) in EQ settings, where you may want to adjust volume at same time as EQ.

User24114

Lyricist I

Been doing great on these updates since the debacle but one thing is still missing I wish would come back. When you have a room with a TV input device and it switched to TV input it erases the queue of music that was in there. Before the debacle versions it would keep the queue intact after watching TV. I really miss this because I listen to music and night and sometimes want to listen to the same queue I had the night before but don't want to clutter a ton of saved playlists.

Airgetlam

Huh. I wasn’t aware of that, but I’ve always used my soundbar’s specifically for TV use. I wonder if it has to do with memory restraints with the newer OS changes, and the storage of previous states, since that isn’t stored on the controller…or wouldn’t be, IMHO.

Bruce

kdowling

It used to work in the old S2 app. No longer…

The interesting part is that the queue is actually still there. You need a third party app or desktop controller to play it.

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Julien2

Lyricist III

Huh. I wasn’t aware of that, but I’ve always used my soundbar’s specifically for TV use. I wonder if it has to do with memory restraints with the newer OS changes, and the storage of previous states, since that isn’t stored on the controller…or wouldn’t be, IMHO.

No the queue is there, it’s just the new Sonos app doesn’t display it. We know this because third party apps and Sonos desktop can access it and the new Sonos app will display it if a track is played by these other apps.

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RavingDave

Renowned Enthusiast I

Been doing great on these updates since the debacle but one thing is still missing I wish would come back. When you have a room with a TV input device and it switched to TV input it erases the queue of music that was in there. Before the debacle versions it would keep the queue intact after watching TV. I really miss this because I listen to music and night and sometimes want to listen to the same queue I had the night before but don't want to clutter a ton of saved playlists.

Also the same issue occurs when playing a radio station on any speaker. Once the radio station stops playing there is no way in the Sonos App to re-start the loaded queue even though it is still there. In my case this happens when I have an alarm that plays a radio station. Once the alarm completes there is no path back to restarting the loaded queue from the App. The Sonos Windows App will let you restart the queue, as will numerous 3rd party Apps. It was always possible before the update debacle. Sonos replied to this question sometime ago, but said the current behaviour is ‘by design’. Pretty poor design in my opinion.

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DeanShaw

Enthusiast I

When are you going to restore the view of album covers to a series of tiles rather than a list please?

MoPac

Headliner III

Tried Claude for the first time yesterday. Better than Shortcuts as far as content availability is concerned, but Shortcuts automations are a plus. Guess if i want to improvise Claude would be the ticket.

bockersjv

Local Superstar

When are you going to restore the view of album covers to a series of tiles rather than a list please?

Was that ever a thing in Sonos? I don’t remember it. I do remember the Album scroll view in iTunes that was great but not Sonos.

I’d like it to happen though.

kdowling

When are you going to restore the view of album covers to a series of tiles rather than a list please?

Was that ever a thing in Sonos? I don’t remember it. I do remember the Album scroll view in iTunes that was great but not Sonos.

I’d like it to happen though.

S1 mobile controller uses tiles, S2 controller uses lists.

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