Parental Controls

I'll make sure to pass on your interest Chris! Thanks.

Thanks. I've also submitted requests to Apple.

What would be helpful is to know whether it's a Sonos issue or an Apple issue, so that I can follow up with the right party.

Often it's a "both” situation when it comes to who has to work on something. Development for new feature will take work from teams both at Sonos and with the service. We aren't here to place blame one direction or another as it isn't productive. We do however love hearing what you’d like to see improved for the future and we make sure to share those ideas with our partners too.

Still waiting....

Seriously. Been way too long. If I have to choose between Apple and Sonos, I'm far more integrated with Apple than Sonos. Just saying....

If you ask on Apple communities they just scoff and say it is sonos' fault and weak integration and software. And Amazon music has the same issue too. It really seems like it should be more of a priority than it is--which seems like it isn't one at all.

Just to add that I was disappointed to find this issue too. Recently got a Play:1 and with two young kids who love to dance round the house to all kinds of music, it's annoying to have to manually filter tracks and not have a more robust option to filter potentially unsuitable lyrics.

Just checking in for my "every few months" update on this...

Ok, so I recently switched from a Spotify family plan to Apple Music all because of Spotify's complete refusal to implement an explicit filter. Now I find that the Sonos implementation of Apple Music does not allow you to filter explicit content.

So, the other day I put on a 90s playlist. After Parklife by Blur, I was treated to The Next Episode (feat. Snoop Dogg). When my 9 year old daughter is in the house, I don't want to hear stuff like "It's the motherfuckin D-O-double-G (Snoop Dogg)" coming out of my Sonos speakers. It's totally unacceptable. I don't want my kids to listen to offensive material.

As for "Sonos want people to hear the music as the artist intended". Oh, come on. Fine, we're not talking about editing songs, we're asking to just filter out explicit songs in searches and on public or platform generated playlists or for explicit versions to be substituted by radio edits. Think songs like Payphone or Cake by the Ocean. Both popular songs where the album versions are not kid friendly.

Apple are responsible for the implementation of their service in the Sonos system.

I think the way around this in the future will have to go along the lines of playing to Sonos from within the native Apple Music app, like Sonos has done with Spotify. At least then you can use Apple's native filtering within their app, which works the bulk of the time.

Count me in as someone who would like to see this feature. Especially since more and more the top playlists are usually filled with explicit songs. Even the auto-generated weekly playlists from Apple usually have at least one or two explicit songs. I have to avoid these altogether on my Sonos when my kids are around, especially since the New Music Mix contains songs that I don't know enough to change from memory. Even an indicator that the song is explicit like Apple Music has would be a step in the right direction.