Bring Back the Apple iPhone Volume Control

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December 15, 2023
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I miss the ability to control my sonos volume using my iPhones volume buttons. Is the Sonos App dev team working on making this work again? This was very useful.

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Best answer by Ken_Griffiths

The option is still there, just play your music via (through) the phone itself using a Music ‘Player’ App to your Sonos speaker, rather than using the ‘remote control’ Sonos App.

The Sonos App has never been a music player and the music never plays via the phone, it is sent direct from the audio source to your speakers, but you now need the music to go via the phone to change the volume using the Apple hardware volume controls. My own understanding is this is a change Apple introduced to help improve security of their iOS devices. So if you want this changed, then you need to speak to Apple.

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jgatie

This may have been touched on in another post, but why not have Sonos app reconfigured with option to play through iOS device? No loss of revenue to Sonos since one buys the system and the speakers for their sound quality and convenience, and gets back functionality of hardware buttons and Lock Screen view (as was present in Sonos 1 app). Maybe one person in the world would use the Sonos app just to play on the phone, but you could limit use of the app to registered Sonos owners thus no revenue loss to Sonos.

There's no way Sonos is going to spend the resources to re-engineer the app when the option to play through iOS devices already exists via Airplay.

melvimbe

This may have been touched on in another post, but why not have Sonos app reconfigured with option to play through iOS device? No loss of revenue to Sonos since one buys the system and the speakers for their sound quality and convenience, and gets back functionality of hardware buttons and Lock Screen view (as was present in Sonos 1 app). Maybe one person in the world would use the Sonos app just to play on the phone, but you could limit use of the app to registered Sonos owners thus no revenue loss to Sonos.

Well, that would control the volume of audio on the phone, not the speakers, correct? How does that help? Even if you were able to group the phone audio and speaker audio, it still would be less than ideal to have to have the crappy phone audio interfering with the speaker audio just for volume control.

Perhaps more importantly, I seriously doubt that the various streaming services would allow Sonos to control the playback experience for phone/tablet use. They create their own apps and features to differentiate and attract customers. The Sonos app is a bit of an exception, somewhat grandfathered in since it existed before streaming services, to playback on speakers that don’t have their own UI. I mean think about it, why doesn’t a aggreate streaming app for most popular streaming services already existing for your iphone or android tablet?

Danny

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