Contributor I

Question

new app

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 7, 2024
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I just installed the new app and at first sight it‘s totally crap :(

First thing I want/need to do is set a new alarm clock for tomorrow morning… hard to find the function at all. Easy access is something different… setting new times is not possible - function will be available with future updates… honestly????

please tell me this is not what you really release! Give me back the old app! Now!!!

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Bumper

And yet, it appears they have. I just updated to 80.00.04, and it is gone. Most curious.

I think these App features, can be enabled/disabled server-side for fixing/updates etc. so it’s perhaps just some ‘teething issues’ that the developers are resolving during the roll out on Day-1. The new App distribution seems to be staggered too, as some UK users are mentioning they are not seeing the App in their device App Store. I guess worldwide update/distribution of the App is perhaps more complicated than we may realise.

It’s not teething issues, it’s a massive dumpster fire of an update that is somehow getting worse.

Ken_Griffiths

It’s not teething issues, it’s a massive dumpster fire of an update that is somehow getting worse.

I’m not really having that much difficulty with the new App @Bumper. I’m just sat here listening to a familiar playlist and all my Sonos devices/rooms are ‘present and correct’ - the Music Services that I subscribe to (Amazon/Apple) are working okay. Alexa is working. I don’t use Sonos Alarms, I don’t need to add/remove or Trueplay a device. My favourites/shortcuts (pinned services as they are now called) seem to be working okay.

I have switched off ‘recently played’ and ‘search history’, as I never use those things. The only complaints I have is the App takes a little too long to launch from a fully closed state (15s) - I’d like to get that down to say 8s, but I’ll get around that by backgrounding the App, rather than closing it, at least it opens near-instantly that way.

Yes I want back the ‘play next’, ‘add to end of queue’ playback options and the usual queue functionality, but I can wait for that. The App has not crashed, not even once here (touch wood) and seems stable on my iPad (main controller) … not had any issues with playing on my speakers from the App so far, but nothings really changed on the networking/hardware side - I don’t use SonosNet, as some here may already know.

Room grouping/ungrouping is working.

So far, so good.. I really would like the screen/functionality (image attached taken from Sonos.com) to be implemented in the new App and I can then probably wait for anything else to be fixed, later.

Bumper

I guess my idea of a successful app update is not that it didn’t crash and that some of the features still exist. I’ll eagerly await version 80.00.80 when they finally add back the queue features have been around since ~2005.

Francis in SH

Contributor II

@Joe Dax,

I’m able to add/edit/delete an alarm in the new Sonos App… see screenshot attached.

Goto ‘Settings/Manage/Alarms’ to access the feature.

I do not have Alarms listed on my iPhone... Are you referring to the Windows / Mac interface?

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IainBelgium

Lyricist I

I see NO alarm settings in the new app!. I have a iPhone 13 running iOS 17.4.1

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JazzyGuitar

Lyricist I

I just installed the new Sonos app, and it is garbage! I have to get up early in the morning, yet there is no longer an alarm feature on this app. What am I supposed to do? I went to settings/manage and there is no mention of alarms. Fix this immediately!

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IainBelgium

Lyricist I

I had hoped that “Alarm settings” would be far more accessible than thru quit a number of steps in system settings. I assume it will come back and I sincerely hope more accessible.

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Marc v

Lyricist I

@Joe Dax,

I’m able to add/edit/delete an alarm in the new Sonos App… see screenshot attached.

Goto ‘Settings/Manage/Alarms’ to access the feature.

I do not have Alarms listed on my iPhone... Are you referring to the Windows / Mac interface?

I have the application on Mac. and in the bottom right hand corner option for Alarms.

Ken_Griffiths

I see ‘Alarms’ in the Apps ‘Settings/Manage’ area, but some report having an update and not seeing the feature (or they’re looking in the wrong place), or maybe it’s being rolled out region by region, or linked to the make/model of controller, who knows at this early stage. I’d just let the dust settle and see how things pan-out for this feature.

Just to add I don’t see ‘Alarms’ in the new ‘Web App’ but maybe it’s there somewhere - I’m still finding my way around the new software.

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sjw

Local Superstar

I assume it's all in the Documentation that accompanies such radical releases. Companies don't usually expect their guinea pigs/users to blunder their way through trying to find things.

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