Switching between rooms

The 'columns' view was only ever part of the tablet version (it is still the design for the desktop version - do you have that?). It seems pretty clear that Sonos have now decided on a unified design across mobile controllers so, personally, I doubt we will see that again.

In any case, all it takes is a tap on the Rooms button and a double tap on the room to get each Now Playing screen in turn. I'm not sure that's too bad.

@shakaree is correct. The first iOS/Android controller (pre 5.0) would let you swipe left/right to change room focus. There was a series of dots at the bottom of Now Playing indicating where you were in the room sequence.

Ah thanks @ratty - before my time on Sonos. Now that does seem a good feature!

@shakaree - apologies for not getting what you were getting at.

Thanks @ratty. That's exactly what I meant. I've been with Sonos for six years and while mostly all updates have taken the system usability forward this is one useful feature that has disappeared during the process.

I do not remember there ever being a feature to flip between rooms by swiping sideways. Have always had to hit a room button (or title) and switch between.

It is a good idea though - swiping the now playing screen or bar would be cool to switch between rooms seeing. But I can see people accidentally swiping and being issue.

If they just did it on the landscape view on tablets then you would be able to see all the queues and that seems like it wouldn't interfere with people accidentally doing it..

Of course there is still the desktop version you can see everything as you switch each room.

See the dots at the bottom of Now Playing here.

So it was on the old landscape view. Seems not really functionally needed on that screen when you can just click on the room itself (as desktop version is now).

Thx ratty.

On some landscapes there were only two panes, such as here.

Thanks for the history Ratty!