Stop updating for just little tweeks

Turn off automatic updates in the Sonos App ‘settings/system/updates’ then just refuse App updates or/and switch off automatic App updates on whatever controller device you are using (just Google that for your device/operating system).

The usual warning however goes with doing that, as some updates maybe there to eliminate emerging security vulnerabilities. 

You don’t need to turn off auto-updates on the PC controller.  This option refers to system updates, which can be turned off on any mobile app.  The ability to do this on a computer went when most system management capability was removed from the desktop controller.

The desktop controller itself never updates automatically.

There is a simple switch for system updates, but Sonos cannot put a switch in the Sonos system that controls your settings for the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store (I am pleased to say)..

This isn’t difficult.  i have turned off auto updates on Play Store and in the Sonos app.  No update happens until I choose.  When i do choose, FWIW, it always goes through without a hitch.

One further general observation, based on long experience on the forum.  When there hasn’t been a recent update, and something suddenly goes wrong on their system, people come on here and say ‘something has gone wrong with my system’.  When there has been a recent update they say ‘the update screwed my system’.  It almost never is the update.

I don’t see how a Sonos update would update your router’s firmware.  In order for that to happen, your router security would have to allow that, and Sonos would have to have familiarity with firmware for the 1000s of different router models and versions out there.  Even if it’s not firmware, but a configuration change, Sonos would have to access somehow to do so.

I would guess that you are using Sonos devices wireless, and the update to Sonos changed how Sonos is communicating wirelessly.  Perhaps that put a bigger burden on your WiFi network or causing interference issues. It’s also entirely possible that some thing else has changed on your wireless network, something you don’t believe has an impact, that is causing the issue.  B

There was one time a Sonos device actually was negatively affected by an update - The Playbar fiasco.  It was a single device, and the bug was only seen in certain configurations.  The main thread reached 100 pages in a couple days, and there were dozens of other sub-threads on the subject. 

This is why I find it hilarious that a dozen or so people come here after an update claiming “The update screwed up my system!”.  Nevermind paranoid nonsense like a Sonos update somehow rewrote a router’s firmware.