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The New Sonos App and Future Feature Updates

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May 11, 2024
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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:

New Sonos App Update!

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Weebo

Contributor I

I don’t like the new App. The alarm function went away. But the second reason I really hate it is, I go find music I want to play and then it plays in the room displayed at the bottom. So you have to start it there then move it. So how do you choose the room without messing up another rooms music?

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Proggie

Contributor I

Last.fm service with scrobbling will return when?

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User394744_1

Contributor I

Really sad. The app is too broken, am going to Bluetooth music for now. Not buying any new Sonos products until I can be confident the company isn't broken too.

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Yar

Lyricist I

This will surely become a Harvard business school case study of how to destroy a company's reputation with just one thoughtless, ill-conceived update. Everyone who authorized this must be seen off the premises first thing Monday morning. I no longer have use ipif one of my components because I have to unplug it to keep it from waking me earlier than I need it to. Thanks for nothing Keith.

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stein067

Enthusiast I

I can only imagine that the Sonos competitors are loving this. They could base a whole ad campaign around the fact that the Sonos system does not even support playlists or queues or other basic functions.

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netridah

Lyricist II

The app update is horrible. I was a big proponent of sonos and recommended it to many friends. But after this fiasco, I sadly can't endorse the products anymore. Give us back the old app ASAP and then rerelease the new app when all features are available. Horrible customer experience for a premium product. I've been a sonos customer since 2013, and I'm very disappointed.

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stein067

Enthusiast I

I think that the Sonos executives need to go visit the Wizard to trade in their courage for a brain.

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SJBill

Lyricist III

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.

Given the timeline you put forth here: you need to put 16.1 back as the default app version until you get all of these features working again and they survive a beta test period of at least a month or two.

Version 80 should have stayed in beta -- it’s clearly not done and is not ready for production deployment! Instead, if apkmirror.com’s dates are correct, it was pushed to release after a 1-day beta period.

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CovertDirt

Enthusiast II

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.

Given the timeline you put forth here: you need to put 16.1 back as the default app version until you get all of these features working again and they survive a beta test period of at least a month or two.

Version 80 should have stayed in beta -- it’s clearly not done and is not ready for production deployment! Instead, if apkmirror.com’s dates are correct, it was pushed to release after a 1-day beta period.

So the timeline is now a month just to be able to drag and drop songs around in the queue?

I have to wait a month before I can do what was effortless a week ago?

OR: could we just have a roll back immediately and then we could all go back to proper queue management right now and we don’t actually have to wait a month?

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Darren Rawlinson

Lyricist II

Plus 1 to re-releasing the old version, like many others I use my system to play music from a NAS which is now virtually impossible from my phone but at least the app loads on that unlike on my tablet which just hangs and does nothing!

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