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Joe Dax
Contributor I
May 7, 2024
Question

new app

  • 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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    mosesyeung
    Lyricist I
    May 8, 2024

    Please give me back the bottom five buttons.  With the new app 80.00.40, I have hit “back/return” so many times befor I can acces to other parts of the app (Home, Play services, System, Search, System).  It was much fast to navigate in the old version.   The new app response time is sooooooooooo slow.  No wake up alarm, no sleep timer - are you kidding to take away these “Basic” functions.  If you apps are not ready, do not launch it please.☹️

      Zephyr3200
      Lyricist II
      May 8, 2024

      After updating the app to 80.00.04, speakers stayed on 16.1.1 build. Is it normal? No build device’s available ? Thanks for your help. 

      a9979
      Enthusiast II
      May 8, 2024

      I’m not sure how this new app passed testing. It’s buggy and not user friendly. Like most people on this thread, I knew I shouldn’t have updated right away. I should have held out as long as possible.

      On a related note, Spotify will only display 50 playlists in the new app so I can’t even see all my playlists. Terrible. 

        lilwut228
        Lyricist I
        May 8, 2024

        I agree, I was excited about the app update but it was really not for me. 

        I get it’s something I could get used to but I feel in the previous version I had more space to navigate around the interface. And i switched between things very easily than this new update. I do like the bubbly design but the navigation is tight and more long-winded.

        And the update that negatively set me off was the queue. I used to love to be able to edit my music queue however I wanted. Moving tracks by dragging them across the queue wherever I wanted them but I now cannot edit it at all. No button or any sign of editing it. Or even maybe I can’t edit it at all. 

        And I wish the numbered volume stayed as well as I’d like to see how loud my music is. I was more aware of how loud my room was without disturbing my roommates via the numbers. Because I knew how loud the speaker would be from the numbers but it’s now missing. 

          LeonardoBrunnet
          Lyricist I
          May 8, 2024

          I use sonos mainly in the bedroom and I really appreciate the system, but it became useless without the  timer button. 

            press250
            press250
            Prodigy III
            May 8, 2024

            I’m not sure how this new app passed testing. It’s buggy and not user friendly. Like most people on this thread, I knew I shouldn’t have updated right away. I should have held out as long as possible.

            On a related note, Spotify will only display 50 playlists in the new app so I can’t even see all my playlists. Terrible. 

            What is this ‘testing’ of which you speak?
            [sarcasm]

              Yogitim
              Trending Lyricist I
              May 10, 2024

              @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've been everywhere To edit my alarms but I cannot find them... I did follow your directions. I've been reading another post as well that for many people it's the same thing. The alarm setting has disappeared with a new app.

               

              Tim C
              Ken_Griffiths
              Ken_Griffiths
              May 10, 2024

              @Yogitim,

              Yes, I (and some others) had alarms show in the new App initially, but it got removed with the 80.0.04 update, so I’m now without it too. I guess it got pulled for some further work to be done on that feature.

              Here’s hoping it will return soon.🤞

              It was in "Settings/Manage’ just below the ‘About Your System’ entry in the list. The workaround for some has been to use the Sonos Desktop Controller on a PC or Mac.. see below:

              Fixing Sonos Alarms

              Maybe this will perhaps help some users that are having an issue with an existing alarm. It requires either a PC, or Mac, with the Desktop controller installed (available HERE)

              See below:

              Sonos app for macOS or Windows

              1. Click Alarms from the bottom of the Select a Music Source pane on the right side of the Sonos app.
              2. To edit an existing alarm, click the name of the alarm, then click Edit.
              3. Set your Time, Room, Music, Frequency and Volume settings.
              4. Click OK to save the alarm
                Yogitim
                Trending Lyricist I
                May 10, 2024

                Thank you. But I only use my phone. I guess I will have to wait for the next update. 

                Tim C
                  Yogitim
                  Trending Lyricist I
                  May 15, 2024

                  So now they have updated the app and the alarms are back on but now every time I open the app it crashes so I have to log out and log back in before I can see my system.

                  Tim C
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