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pwt
Virtuoso
November 28, 2025

+1 for a solution to this.

It appears repeatedly in the S1 mobile apps, for those wondering.

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Jamie A
Sonos Staff
November 28, 2025

Hi ​@SirDigitalKnight and ​@pwt,

I’m sorry to hear that you keep getting this message in the S1 app.

I’ve had a look for a way to disable it and found that, if you perform the system compatibility check, there’s an option to stay on S1. Make sure your S1 app is running the latest version, then go to Settings → System → System Tools → System Compatibility Check and follow the prompts, selecting ‘Continue using S1’ when it shows up.

Once you’ve done that, try closing the app and re-opening it to see if the upgrade message returns, and let me know if it does.

I hope this helps.

pwt
Virtuoso
November 28, 2025

Thanks -- I’ll try that. I don’t recollect whether I’ve tried it before.

I rotate the app between two different S1 households, so that might be part of the issue.

4 x P:5 | Sub | 4 x P:1 | 3 x Connect | 2 x Boost | Connect:Amp | 2 x One | Amp | Move | Port | Era 300
SirDigitalKnight
Enthusiast I
November 28, 2025

Hi ​@SirDigitalKnight and ​@pwt,

I’m sorry to hear that you keep getting this message in the S1 app.

I’ve had a look for a way to disable it and found that, if you perform the system compatibility check, there’s an option to stay on S1. Make sure your S1 app is running the latest version, then go to Settings → System → System Tools → System Compatibility Check and follow the prompts, selecting ‘Continue using S1’ when it shows up.

Once you’ve done that, try closing the app and re-opening it to see if the upgrade message returns, and let me know if it does.

I hope this helps.

On Android that does not work. Below is the only option available on Android which will make the prompt go away for a day or two but then it pops back up again at the top of the app saying “S2 app is now available, check compatibility”

 

Jamie A
Sonos Staff
November 28, 2025

Hi ​@SirDigitalKnight and ​@pwt,

I’m sorry to hear that you keep getting this message in the S1 app.

I’ve had a look for a way to disable it and found that, if you perform the system compatibility check, there’s an option to stay on S1. Make sure your S1 app is running the latest version, then go to Settings → System → System Tools → System Compatibility Check and follow the prompts, selecting ‘Continue using S1’ when it shows up.

Once you’ve done that, try closing the app and re-opening it to see if the upgrade message returns, and let me know if it does.

I hope this helps.

On Android that does not work. Below is the only option available on Android which will make the prompt go away for a day or two but then it pops back up again at the top of the app saying “S2 app is now available, check compatibility”

 

From what I can see, the ‘stay on S1 option’ only shows if: you have no compatible Sonos App products in your system, or your system has one or more incompatible Sonos App products. If you have a system of compatible products, then it’s recommended to update and not stay on S1. You can view our support article for Sonos app version compatibility for more information.

If you tap ‘Learn more’ on that screen, you should get the option for staying on S1 if you meet the requirements above. If you do, and you’re still not seeing the option, can you submit a diagnostics and send it to me via private message?

SirDigitalKnight
Enthusiast I
November 28, 2025

I have 3 Sonos Connects. 2 of them are S2 capable (C100) and 1 is not (S100) so from what you are saying it should let me choose to stay on S1? If so then will send you the diag in PM. 

Jamie A
Sonos Staff
December 1, 2025

Hi ​@SirDigitalKnight, thanks for sharing the diagnostic.

I had a look into your system and see that you do have an S1 only product, so I followed up with the team. However, there was a change this year where you see the “Stay on S1” option if your system consists of only S1 compatible products, and not a mix like it would previously. Having a mix of compatible and incompatible will now cause the banner asking you to update to the newest version to show again after dismissing it.

I’m not sure why this was changed and I apologize for giving the wrong information earlier; I’ll forward this as feedback as well as a mark this thread as a feature request to, hopefully, allow mixed systems to stay on S1 like they could previously.

controlav
Lead Maestro
December 1, 2025

However, there was a change this year where you see the “Stay on S1” option if your system consists of only S1 compatible products, and not a mix like it would previously. Having a mix of compatible and incompatible will now cause the banner asking you to update to the newest version to show again after dismissing it.

Sometimes Engineering just LOVE to generate work for the Support folks, huh? Sigh.

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pwt
Virtuoso
December 2, 2025

Well, this does seem to have worked for me (so far). I also have a mixture of S2 capable and non-capable devices in each of the two households.

I’ve had a look for a way to disable it and found that, if you perform the system compatibility check, there’s an option to stay on S1. Make sure your S1 app is running the latest version, then go to Settings → System → System Tools → System Compatibility Check and follow the prompts, selecting ‘Continue using S1’ when it shows up.

4 x P:5 | Sub | 4 x P:1 | 3 x Connect | 2 x Boost | Connect:Amp | 2 x One | Amp | Move | Port | Era 300
SirDigitalKnight
Enthusiast I
December 3, 2025

Well, this does seem to have worked for me (so far). I also have a mixture of S2 capable and non-capable devices in each of the two households.

I’ve had a look for a way to disable it and found that, if you perform the system compatibility check, there’s an option to stay on S1. Make sure your S1 app is running the latest version, then go to Settings → System → System Tools → System Compatibility Check and follow the prompts, selecting ‘Continue using S1’ when it shows up.

 

You on Android or IOS?