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nosharingplease
Contributor I
Mar 23, 2026 10:56 PM UTC

Alphabetical Favorites: Make It A Setting, I Am Begging You

It is weird to have the Mac app’s view of the Sonos Favorites (beloved, correct) and the iOS app’s view of the Sonos Favorites (graphic-heavy, weird, unc) so very different. But I have a very, very simple way out of this mess. In the iOS app settings, there should be a setting:

Sort By:

( ) Alphabetical

( ) Recency

Ta-daaa! Everyone gets what they want.
 

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    Stanley_4
    Stanley_4
    Grand Maestro
    Mar 23, 2026 11:00 PM UTC

    Add in the ability to rename ones with less helpful names like Top Songs and they would be a lot more useful. 

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    buzz
    buzz
    Grand Maestro
    Mar 24, 2026 12:55 AM UTC

    What is “Recency”? Recently played? Recently added? Copyright date?

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    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    Mar 24, 2026 2:00 AM UTC

    The Mac app hasn’t been touched, other than bug fixes, in years. 

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    Bruce
    controlav
    controlav
    Lead Maestro
    Mar 24, 2026 1:35 PM UTC

    The bizarre fact is that the underlying API returns them in alphabetic order, which is why the Mac app (and every third party app to my knowledge, certainly all of mine) show them that way.

    The Sonos mobile app seems to be going out of its way to trash the sort order, for some reason.

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