Alarms "hidden" in System Settings with 10.4

My Sonos, rooms and alarms are my three most commonly used functions. I’d like alarms as a button on the front/home page. Also agree with Howard S regarding the horrible changes to the alarm UI. Why not provide users with the option to move functionality buttons around the app - a bit like iOS? Let us decide if we set alarms once and are happy to leave them buried, or if we use them daily (my case) and would like them on the front page

Can't say I've EVER used alarms on Sonos, didn't even know there were any, and I suspect I'm FAR from alone. Hard to imagine alarms are a widely used feature of Sonos, especially considering there's no battery backup for power outages.

OTOH, I use timers all the time in the kitchen, on the paired Ones, always via Alexa voice control, never via the app.

On the 10.4.1 Android app there is now a bell symbol top left of the rooms screen which takes you directly to alarms.

I also want to point out the cognitive strain of putting alarms so many taps deep. When you're tired and ready to sleep, it can take more thought to figure out where to find this. Every night, I like to check and make sure my alarm is on. These hoops make me much more confused, and I genuinely make a mistake of tapping on my room in settings every time.

Have you tried updating your controller to 10.4.1?

On the 10.4.1 Android app there is now a bell symbol top left of the rooms screen which takes you directly to alarms.
We're testing this out with some Sonos controllers, but it's not available on all systems updated to 10.4.1 at this time. Some people will see it show up on their controllers over time as well. Based on use and performance, it may be added to all controllers in the future.

On the 10.4.1 Android app there is now a bell symbol top left of the rooms screen which takes you directly to alarms.We're testing this out with some Sonos controllers, but it's not available on all systems updated to 10.4.1 at this time. Some people will see it show up on their controllers over time as well. Based on use and performance, it may be added to all controllers in the future.

Can you clarify this please, Ryan.

When you say “testing... on some controllers” do you mean for some devices - eg IOS or Android - or are you giving a version on IOS to “some people” but not others?

Does that mean you are somehow releasing multiple versions of 10.4.1? How are you selecting who gets which?

Are some people, in effect, being used as beta testers, which is especially implied by your final sentence?

It’s not uncommon in software to be able to A/B test some things, depending on a server setting that checks an account status. You’ll find such a thing in almost every “free” game out there, so that the profitability of certain things can be tested. I’d imagine that Sonos can do the same thing, by turning on a specific feature for a subset of its users, to see how it performs, before throwing it open to a greater number of people. That way, if it doesn’t work as intended, there are fewer people impacted, but if it works as intended, it still gets tested by a small group, without having to go through a longer “beta” process.

I would imagine that’s what is going on here.

On the 10.4.1 Android app there is now a bell symbol top left of the rooms screen which takes you directly to alarms.

Happy to report both Android and IOS devices in my system have the new shortcut into the alarms page.

Credit to the developers for quickly implementing this 'navigation to alarms page', fix .