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brymills
Enthusiast I
September 10, 2019
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Alarms "hidden" in System Settings with 10.4

  • September 10, 2019
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Ah come on Sonos, alarms used to be so easy. It used to be click ‘More’, click alarms. Now in 10.4 it’s click ‘Settings’, click ‘System’, scroll around a bit, click ‘Alarms’. Why? Sometimes it feels like Sonos is constantly changing stuff for the sake of change, not to improve the functionality.
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    Best answer by Ryan S

    The team has concluded their testing and the alarms shortcut is being sent out to all Sonos households today. You will be able to access your alarms screen from the Rooms tab, by clicking on the alarm bell at the top left of the screen. If you don’t see the shortcut yet, check for updates in your Sonos system, as there is one that released today, and then you might just have to wait a little while. The setting is rolling out to homes today and might not have reached your system yet.

    Thanks for your patience everyone, and I hope this shortcut makes it easier on your evenings. I’ve also passed on the other feedback for other functionality and displays.

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    xavierr
    Lyricist III
    September 26, 2019
    Not available on my 10.4.1 for Android...

    Please speed up the deployment and think about a widget or a lock-screen notification with next alarm time.

    Thanks
      Sabre
      Lyricist I
      September 27, 2019
      I second this. Had to search for my alarms first. Glad that there seems an update coming for this. The rooms page seems like a good place to put it, looking forwards to that update.
      Howard S
      Enthusiast II
      September 27, 2019
      Just arrived for me on iOS. Works for me. Brilliant! Thank you so much to all on the Sonos development team for coming up with a potential solution. Hoping that it gets adopted. If so, I can go to sleep each night after checking my alarms so much happier! Now if you could make the new Alarms and Edit Alarm screens a little more compact to reduce scrolling, and the sliders a tad larger to avoid false hits, and I’ll be more than satisfied! 🙂
        NBK
        Contributor I
        September 28, 2019
        Hi SONOS Community,
        I use the alarm function frequently. The latest SONOS app (v. 10.4.1) "hides" the alarm under Settings>System>Alarms.
        That's buried a little deep, plus it doesn't make intuitive sense categorized there.
        Is anyone else bothered by this? I'd like to request that the Alarm function be moved up at least one level in the next app version, and possibly be re-categorized as a feature or utility.
        Thanks,
        NBK
          Mr. P.
          Lyricist I
          September 29, 2019
          I have Android app 10.4.1 but I don't have the alarm shortcut. Please implement it for everyone asap because I dislike sonos very much now, every time I have to start digging in settings to change an alarm. Which is daily. I thought you'd hire professionals to design your UI.
            Dinshaw
            Lyricist II
            October 1, 2019
            The alarm settings placement was great before this update. Now it is a travesty. Did Sonos think that no one was using these? Not only are they buried deeply in settings with a lot of scrolling required (have to pass all your devices), but now you can't even set your music from your favorites. Please bring back the old alarm interface. This was a huge fail.
              Philippe_3
              Lyricist II
              October 2, 2019
              Please fix this asap
              As a loyal customer owning many speakers I have to scroll through all speakers I bought.

              How could this even happen? Who changes Account, speaker or Services etc. settings more often then Alarms?
                Ken_Griffiths
                Ken_Griffiths
                October 2, 2019
                Please fix this asap
                As a loyal customer owning many speakers I have to scroll through all speakers I bought.

                How could this even happen? Who changes Account, speaker or Services etc. settings more often then Alarms?
                If you look at the previous page in this thread and the comments particularly from Sonos Staff, you will see that this is already a matter that’s being looked at by Sonos.
                xavierr
                Lyricist III
                October 3, 2019
                Please fix this asap
                As a loyal customer owning many speakers I have to scroll through all speakers I bought.

                How could this even happen? Who changes Account, speaker or Services etc. settings more often then Alarms?

                More you bought, more Sonos bother you !!
                A shame !
                (still waiting on my side)
                brymillsAuthor
                Enthusiast I
                October 10, 2019
                Original poster here... still not in my 10.4.2 update. Boooooo
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