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Keith N
Keith N
Sonos Staff
May 11, 2024

The New Sonos App and Future Feature Updates

Hey all, today we're sharing a message from our chief innovation officer, Nick Millington in the announcement here. Going forwards we will update that topic and we therefore close this one for further replies.

 

 

We set out to create a more personalized and effortless listening experience with the updated Sonos app. It was rebuilt from the ground up to ensure it could support future innovation in the years to come. For its initial rollout, we focused on how we could answer some of the most common requests from our customers, including increased reliability, performance, and faster access to music.


Many of you have shared valuable feedback on both the improvements that have made your experience better, as well as the areas where we fell short. We are listening to all of your comments and working to address them as quickly as possible. Over the coming weeks, we will reintroduce the below features, while fixing bugs and performance issues. Thank you for your engagement and we look forward to building upon this first step to create a listening experience that meets everyone’s needs.
 

 

Available now

 

To access these changes, check for updates in the iOS / Android app store to download the latest version of the Sonos app. Make sure your Sonos products are also up to date.


Last updated: Oct 28, 2024. See release notes.

The update has the following version numbers:

 

80.11.38 - iOS
80.11.32 - Android

 

In this update:

 

  • Support for the all-new Arc Ultra soundbar and Sub 4
  • Music library improvements*
  • Improvements to product setup
  • Improved performance when browsing content in Home and in Browse on Android
  • Improvements to multi-system support on iOS
  • Fixes for multiple settings including Bluetooth display, EQ, and Sub bonding on iOS
  • The ability to schedule System Updates on iOS
  • Continued Voiceover improvements on iOS

 

* Requires player update - 81.1-58074 (or higher)

 

 

You can also follow along with updates in this article: 

 

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    Shromano
    Listener
    June 21, 2024

    We set out to create a more personalized and effortless listening experience with the updated Sonos app. It was rebuilt from the ground up to ensure it could support future innovation in the years to come. For its initial rollout, we focused on how we could answer some of the most common requests from our customers, including increased reliability, performance, and faster access to music.


    Many of you have shared valuable feedback on both the improvements that have made your experience better, as well as the areas where we fell short. We are listening to all of your comments and working to address them as quickly as possible. Over the coming weeks, we will reintroduce the below features, while fixing bugs and performance issues. Thank you for your engagement and we look forward to building upon this first step to create a listening experience that meets everyone’s needs.
     

     

    Available now

    To access these changes, check for updates in the iOS / Android app store to download the latest version of the Sonos app. Make sure your Sonos products are also up to date.

    Last updated: Jun 17, 2024. See release notes.

    • Added numerical values to volume and group-volume sliders
    • Updated the volume icon to reflect the volume level on iOS
    • Introduced mute button on Android
    • Added stereo or mono configuration for Amp/Port output on iOS
    • Improved TalkBack screen reader support for volume sliders on Android
    • Added support for SonosNet channel selection on iOS
    • Expanded support for service reauthorization on Android


     

    Coming soon

    • Continued improvements to navigation for visually-impaired customers: mid-June
    • Local music library search and playback: mid-June
    • Improved playback settings including Play Now: July
    • Create and edit local music library: July
    • Improved Autoplay settings: July
    • Improved Sub audio settings with Amp: July
    • Snooze alarms: TBD

     

    Our latest update resolves some of the most critical known issues, but know we have more to do. We hear your feedback and are working hard to deliver the experience you expect and deserve.

    This app is terrible and Sonos should fix it faster. I can’t even play an album reliably for my kids at night without it turning off suddenly or a speaker all of a sudden pairing with another speaker despite my fixing the settings over and over again. It’s like I have a house full of speakers I can’t use. I feel trapped by this and I’m very upset. Sonos is not fixing this fast enough. 

      Nicolas_Ayrton
      Contributor I
      June 21, 2024

      Hello the community,

      I received the official answer from the Sonos support regarding Alarms. In order  to configure your alarm in France, I have to put 2 hour before the desired (because I’m on GMT+2). It’s totally incredible but it works.

      AndyN72
      Lyricist II
      June 21, 2024

      Hello the community,

      I received the official answer from the Sonos support regarding Alarms. In order  to configure your alarm in France, I have to put 2 hour before the desired (because I’m on GMT+2). It’s totally incredible but it works.

      Interesting. Hasn’t worked for me. I set 4 alarms, on the hour, every hour on the same device with different sources for each and after four hours, nothing has activated for me. My time zone is GMT +1. 

      N0rpan
      Lyricist I
      June 21, 2024

      Can’t understand why Sonos don’t do a rollback to the old app. We also got a lot more stability issues with Sonos now - wondering if we should sell the entire system and start with something else - any tips on who is best now? 

        John Guarr
        John Guarr
        Enthusiast II
        June 21, 2024

        Thank you. The address on my sonos.com profile is correct. Really interested by your tests @Andrew-s and your feedbacks

        Hi — I’ve tried alarms and mine work fine.  I’m afraid I can’t offer up any more advice.  I would try leaving your alarm set and see if it goes off at the ‘wrong’ time — this would at least confirm to you if your system holds the wrong time, even if the way to remedy this remains unclear for now.

        The only thing I can say about alarms is that before this app upgrade, I had one alarm set for 19:30 local time to take my meds. It is very important that I take my seizure meds each evening at a certain time, and it has always worked for me and not affected by this crazy update. And I don’t use music or a radio station, since I need to get used to hearing one sound and then I tell Alexa to “stop the alarm”.  

        Ken_Griffiths
        Ken_Griffiths
        June 21, 2024

        Thank you. The address on my sonos.com profile is correct. Really interested by your tests @Andrew-s and your feedbacks

        Hi — I’ve tried alarms and mine work fine.  I’m afraid I can’t offer up any more advice.  I would try leaving your alarm set and see if it goes off at the ‘wrong’ time — this would at least confirm to you if your system holds the wrong time, even if the way to remedy this remains unclear for now.

        The only thing I can say about alarms is that before this app upgrade, I had one alarm set for 19:30 local time to take my meds. It is very important that I take my seizure meds each evening at a certain time, and it has always worked for me and not affected by this crazy update. And I don’t use music or a radio station, since I need to get used to hearing one sound and then I tell Alexa to “stop the alarm”.  

        If you’re asking Alexa to stop the Alarm, then you are not using Sonos Alarms - you are using an Alexa Alarm, which are entirely different, but are also available on Sonos products, but each alarm settings are held in the Amazon Alexa App, not the Sonos App. Some people can often get confused between the two so maybe investigate that a little further. Hope that helps.👍

        roberoo
        Avid Listener
        June 21, 2024

        Everything is so sluggish now. 
         

        The app is so slow and frustrating to use. The music takes forever to stop or play on speakers. It takes even longer to actually navigate to your chosen song or album. 
         

        it’s not intuitive to navigate the app anymore. The horrible slow transitions make it a poor experiance for a ‘premium’ speaker brand. 

          AndyN72
          Lyricist II
          June 21, 2024

          Hello the community,

          I received the official answer from the Sonos support regarding Alarms. In order  to configure your alarm in France, I have to put 2 hour before the desired (because I’m on GMT+2). It’s totally incredible but it works.

          Interesting. Hasn’t worked for me. I set 4 alarms, on the hour, every hour on the same device with different sources for each and after four hours, nothing has activated for me. My time zone is GMT +1. 

          I think I may have figured it out.

          I turned off my 1Blocker Firewall and then set a new alarm and switched the 1Blocker Firewall back on.

          Then with the 1Blocker Firewall still activated I set up other alarms, all of which have now worked.

          Doing a bit of other digging, I’m guessing that Sonos have built in a lot of stuff with Airship, eg. Feature flags etc, which 1Blocker Firewall stops.

          Deactivating it, even temporarily, while doing an alarm function seems to have enabled it to work.

          Frustrating stuff. 

          Bumper
          Bumper
          June 21, 2024

          Hello the community,

          I received the official answer from the Sonos support regarding Alarms. In order  to configure your alarm in France, I have to put 2 hour before the desired (because I’m on GMT+2). It’s totally incredible but it works.

          Interesting. Hasn’t worked for me. I set 4 alarms, on the hour, every hour on the same device with different sources for each and after four hours, nothing has activated for me. My time zone is GMT +1. 

          I think I may have figured it out.

          I turned off my 1Blocker Firewall and then set a new alarm and switched the 1Blocker Firewall back on.

          Then with the 1Blocker Firewall still activated I set up other alarms, all of which have now worked.

          Doing a bit of other digging, I’m guessing that Sonos have built in a lot of stuff with Airship, eg. Feature flags etc, which 1Blocker Firewall stops.

          Deactivating it, even temporarily, while doing an alarm function seems to have enabled it to work.

          Frustrating stuff. 

          Yeah I’ve had similar issues. You may find that new features don’t show up in your app as Sonos releases updates because of this. 

            Pschwenk
            Renowned Enthusiast I
            June 21, 2024

            We set out to create a more personalized and effortless listening experience with the updated Sonos app. It was rebuilt from the ground up to ensure it could support future innovation in the years to come. For its initial rollout, we focused on how we could answer some of the most common requests from our customers, including increased reliability, performance, and faster access to music.


            Many of you have shared valuable feedback on both the improvements that have made your experience better, as well as the areas where we fell short. We are listening to all of your comments and working to address them as quickly as possible. Over the coming weeks, we will reintroduce the below features, while fixing bugs and performance issues. Thank you for your engagement and we look forward to building upon this first step to create a listening experience that meets everyone’s needs.
             

             

            Available now

            To access these changes, check for updates in the iOS / Android app store to download the latest version of the Sonos app. Make sure your Sonos products are also up to date.

            Last updated: Jun 17, 2024. See release notes.

            • Added numerical values to volume and group-volume sliders
            • Updated the volume icon to reflect the volume level on iOS
            • Introduced mute button on Android
            • Added stereo or mono configuration for Amp/Port output on iOS
            • Improved TalkBack screen reader support for volume sliders on Android
            • Added support for SonosNet channel selection on iOS
            • Expanded support for service reauthorization on Android


             

            Coming soon

            • Continued improvements to navigation for visually-impaired customers: mid-June
            • Local music library search and playback: mid-June
            • Improved playback settings including Play Now: July
            • Create and edit local music library: July
            • Improved Autoplay settings: July
            • Improved Sub audio settings with Amp: July
            • Snooze alarms: TBD

             

            Our latest update resolves some of the most critical known issues, but know we have more to do. We hear your feedback and are working hard to deliver the experience you expect and deserve.

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