New App

I've repeatedly said not having the tab bar visible at all times is the worst part of the new design. So yeah, bad design.
The worst part of the new design is having a tab bar navigation in the first place. Half the issues are a direct result of it.

Nice try though 😉

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That's great! Hope it keeps you busy and of this forum for a while. 😉

Interface should be same on all. All of them clicking the little arrow in top right corner or flicking the now playing down should all give you navigation bar at bottom. Not calling it a good design but all should be very much same if all on same version.Indeed. And I am surprised that there has been so little comment on these threads about the fact that new app seems to be a deliberate harmonisation of the phone and tablet apps, which previously (if I recall correctly) were quite different.

Some consequences of this, it seems to me:

1. The limitations of the space available on a phone screen are artificially imposed on the tablet, hence the general feeling expressed in these threads that the app on a tablet does not make good use of the space available.
2. People used to the tablet app, which resembled the existing desktop controller, suddenly found they had to navigate to places that previously were all on a single screen (this is really just an inevitable consequence of point 1).
3. For new users, without the 'baggage' that the rest of us carry, a single look for all mobile apps is probably a good thing in itself. Opinions will differ on whether it is enough of a gain to justify the downsides.

I make no judgements on whether this was a good idea or not on Sonos' part, it's just my take on an aspect of the change. Has this been little commented on because nobody else thinks this is relevant?


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That's great! Hope it keeps you busy and of this forum for a while. ;)

Talk about not getting the bit. :8

If you on Apple just get SonoPad and Sonophone, couple of £ far better, frustration removed, logical in functionality.

Actually I have to disagree regarding the tab bar. I think it is a welcome inclusion from versions 5-7 where you had to know where to swipe or press. The original Sonos interface had some similarities and I don’t think they should have moved away from it.

The tablet version has been moving toward more harmonization with the standard version for years. However 5.0 when it came out had this issue and they slowly added back some tablet customization.

In my personal opinion the landscape on tablet should look like the desktop version with an all in one page type interface.

I have coped with the new tab layout reasonably well without thinking it better than the previous approach. Notwithstanding I agree with User103951. The source of concern that people have is the direct result of moving to the tabbed approach. Of that I am sure. I dealt with it well but it is not necessarily best for a multi room set up. It works quite fine for native apps.

Not a nightmare for me but clearly for others.

OK, I'm stumbling along here. Still don't like the seemingly-arbitrary differences between the UIs on various devices, but I'm starting to figure it out.

Sadly, I'm now finding the Windows app more reliable and useful than on any of my Android or iOS devices... Ugh.

Chris, your posts are confusing me. One minute you are saying nothing changed from v5 to v7.4 (25 releases btw) and now are stating that they added tablet customization which in my view changed it considerably from a phone app which worked on a tablet to a full blown tablet app in it's own right.