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ShaunFromSonos
Sonos Staff
September 8, 2026
News

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

  • 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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32 replies

Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
September 27, 2026

Probably should have looked at the release notes in addition to the first post here, but as I said it is hard to get any enthusiasm going a couple weeks late to the party.

Sure wish Android had a way to update sooner, like Apple.

Corry P
Sonos Staff
September 29, 2026

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