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Majo133
Renowned Enthusiast I
May 9, 2024

PSA: DO NOT UPDATE TO THE NEW APP YET (list of issues included)

  • May 9, 2024
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Please if u have some issues u don’t see in my post, add them with bulletins, so there is a comperehensive lists for other users or the SONOS itself.

 

Device: iPhone 14 Pro Max - iOS 17.4.1

1.) If u’re trying to TruePlay ERA’s 300 in the NEW APP (80.00.04), and microphones are disabled on the ERA’s themselves, then the TruePlay process fails.This is due to disabled microphones. If i tried it in the OLD APP (16.1), there was a step/prompt that warned me exactly about the microphones e.g. that they need to be enabled, so the TruePlay could run successfully. This prompt is missing in the NEW APP (80.00.04). So if u’re having TruePlay issues, try to enable microphones.

2.) If u’re having issues with TruePlay not starting after tapping/hitting “Continue” button in the NEW APP (80.00.04), reboot your phone and it should work.

3.) If u’re experiencing some other issues in the NEW APP (80.00.04), they might be mitigated by going to “Account” / “App Preferences” / “Reset App” which will logout you out of the app and u'll have to sign in again and go through the initial wizard, which's gonna find your existing system.

4.) I also had issues with my existing Apple playlist. After hitting play, songs were skipped one by one and nothing was playing. NEW APP (80.00.04)

5.) The removal of surrounds simply doesn’t work in the NEW APP (80.00.04). Even if i’ve factory reset them, the process failed. When i tried it on the OLD APP (16.1), it worked like magic.

6.) Addition of new speakers (ERA 300 in my case) did not work in NEW APP (80.00.04) either at all, or it crashed during the pairing/registering/wi-fi wizard. I’ve spent approx. hour on Sonos support to achieve nothing.

7.) “System Settings” / “Manage” / “About my system” / “Audio in:” doesn’t display the audio format/kodek in the NEW APP (80.00.04). So for example, if u’re wondering if lossy DD+ ATMOS is playing or the lossless DTHD ATMOS is playing, at the moment u're out of luck. NEW APP (80.00.04)

8.) “System Settings” / “Manage” / “About my system” / “Sonos ID. ”If your ID is not displayed, try the “Reset App” steps and it could help. NEW APP (80.00.04)

9.) “System Settings” / “Your System” / “Room” / “Products” /  “Specific Product” / “Status” / “Network”. The input field is empty and does not display name of the network for existing products. NEW APP (80.00.04)

10.) “System Settings” / “Your System” / “Room” / “Products” /  “Specific Product”. Enable or Disable Wi-Fi does nothing / displays “Something went wrong” error. NEW APP (80.00.04)

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103 replies

Contributor I
May 15, 2024

Sonos will not reconnect my Era 100s as surrounds after the new app dropped them from my Arc and sub setup. Have factory reset and adding them individually to different rooms to try to add them but to no avail. I have two era 100s sitting in my living room collecting dust!

Lyricist III
May 15, 2024

80.00.08:

Arc, 2 gen3 subs, 2 era 300s. Trueplay gets as far as waving/walking portion then stalls. Uninstall/reinstall of app doesn’t fix it. Also tried the play music trick for 10 seconds and still a nogo.

not working for me too… 

Contributor I
May 15, 2024

80.00.08:

Arc, 2 gen3 subs, 2 era 300s. Trueplay gets as far as waving/walking portion then stalls. Uninstall/reinstall of app doesn’t fix it. Also tried the play music trick for 10 seconds and still a nogo.

not working for me too… 

80.00.08:

Arc, 2 gen3 subs, 2 era 300s. Trueplay gets as far as waving/walking portion then stalls. Uninstall/reinstall of app doesn’t fix it. Also tried the play music trick for 10 seconds and still a nogo.

not working for me too… 

I stayed on hold with support for 2 hours and they pushed an update through that fixed in 10 minutes smh.good luck

Lyricist I
May 15, 2024

Half baked and half done. This change is IT zeal overriding smart management decisions. We have all spent LOTS of money on their products then they take away basic functionality making us all hostages. What's next, forced playback of Newspeak from the Thought Police?

Lyricist I
May 15, 2024

Favourites are all gone in a new App on iPhone. Still there in Mac version of app. 

it says - “Unable to load content”, playlists, radio stations, nothing…

No new item can be added either. 

 

This app is seriously broken. It must be removed from the App Store !

Wally31
Lyricist III
May 15, 2024

Tech support was able to help me true play the 300 when separated.  As far as The Arc system they are having issues with IOS and are currently working on fixing to work with the arc. 

Lyricist II
May 15, 2024

Please if u have some issues u don’t see in my post, add them with bulletins, so there is a comperehensive lists for other users or the SONOS itself.

 

Device: iPhone 14 Pro Max - iOS 17.4.1

1.) If u’re trying to TruePlay ERA’s 300 in the NEW APP (80.00.04), and microphones are disabled on the ERA’s themselves, then the TruePlay process fails.This is due to disabled microphones. If i tried it in the OLD APP (16.1), there was a step/prompt that warned me exactly about the microphones e.g. that they need to be enabled, so the TruePlay could run successfully. This prompt is missing in the NEW APP (80.00.04). So if u’re having TruePlay issues, try to enable microphones.

2.) If u’re having issues with TruePlay not starting after tapping/hitting “Continue” button in the NEW APP (80.00.04), reboot your phone and it should work.

3.) If u’re experiencing some other issues in the NEW APP (80.00.04), they might be mitigated by going to “Account” / “App Preferences” / “Reset App” which will logout you out of the app and u'll have to sign in again and go through the initial wizard, which's gonna find your existing system.

4.) I also had issues with my existing Apple playlist. After hitting play, songs were skipped one by one and nothing was playing. NEW APP (80.00.04)

5.) The removal of surrounds simply doesn’t work in the NEW APP (80.00.04). Even if i’ve factory reset them, the process failed. When i tried it on the OLD APP (16.1), it worked like magic.

6.) Addition of new speakers (ERA 300 in my case) did not work in NEW APP (80.00.04) either at all, or it crashed during the pairing/registering/wi-fi wizard. I’ve spent approx. hour on Sonos support to achieve nothing.

7.) “System Settings” / “Manage” / “About my system” / “Audio in:” doesn’t display the audio format/kodek in the NEW APP (80.00.04). So for example, if u’re wondering if lossy DD+ ATMOS is playing or the lossless DTHD ATMOS is playing, at the moment u're out of luck. NEW APP (80.00.04)

8.) “System Settings” / “Manage” / “About my system” / “Sonos ID. ”If your ID is not displayed, try the “Reset App” steps and it could help. NEW APP (80.00.04)

9.) “System Settings” / “Your System” / “Room” / “Products” /  “Specific Product” / “Status” / “Network”. The input field is empty and does not display name of the network for existing products. NEW APP (80.00.04)

10.) “System Settings” / “Your System” / “Room” / “Products” /  “Specific Product”. Enable or Disable Wi-Fi does nothing / displays “Something went wrong” error. NEW APP (80.00.04)

  1.  “Music Library” is forgotten and no music folders can be added back.
Contributor I
May 15, 2024

Adding errors:

This new app in Android don't allow to configure Amazon Alexa assistant with Sonos Era 300, is still loading to login to Amazon Alexa and never go to the login screen. 

This app also forget the configured systems and options of the account. I had to factory reset and configure my two Sonos Era speakers again and the music services. 

The trueplay option for my Sonos Eran 300 and Era 100 don't appear in the app.

The app has too many bugs that difficult to connect to the speakers. 

 

The old app is too much better than this new one. This new app is unusable.

Lyricist II
May 16, 2024

I have Arc with Symfonisk bookshelves as surrounds. Since the update, the Symfonisks don’t play anything. I’ve reset them a few times, and after fiddling around managed to add them as surrounds to Arc 3 times now, but there’s no sound coming out of them even though they are shown as surrounds. I also have a Symfonisk in my study which keeps disappearing / reappearing in the app. I don’t think they’re updated or not updated properly, since checking for updates on them keep failing despite having gone the update process when adding them as surrounds. 

 

Also my Arc + Symfonisks don’t show as Airplay speakers on my iPhone except occasionally. 

There’s also a weird bug with the volume control. I change the volume in the Sonos app and the volume slider bounces back to the original position. After trying to change the volume a few times, I saw the volume slider move back & forth independently as with a massive delay. 

The new app is massively glitchy. Speakers come and go, app gets unresponsive, some buttons don’t work until the app is killed & relaunched and everything is super laggy. 

Lyricist II
May 17, 2024

what a disaster of a roll out can add a simple sonos port to an existing system.