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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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BeMike

Contributor II

What about Trueplay settings which seem to have vanished from the app on Android, even though I had borrowed an iphone to get it set up?

Tbh, I have given up on the updated app and reinstalled the old version on my phone which I would recommend to anybody else to do!

Where did you find the old app?

I had it downloaded on my phone prior to the update but think it can be found at apkmirror.com

THANKS!!! You have saved not only my day … but my Sonos system.
I am very very grateful … and happy!

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Panic_Attaché

Enthusiast I

What about Trueplay settings which seem to have vanished from the app on Android, even though I had borrowed an iphone to get it set up?

Tbh, I have given up on the updated app and reinstalled the old version on my phone which I would recommend to anybody else to do!

Where did you find the old app?

I had it downloaded on my phone prior to the update but think it can be found at apkmirror.com

THANKS!!! You have saved not only my day … but my Sonos system.
I am very very grateful … and happy!

Don't forget to disable auto updates on your phone

S

Steve_Selwood

Listener

I struggle to understand why you have updated the Android app when you know that functionality is missing. If it only going to take just over a month to have the missing functionality added. Why not wait until the app is complete before releasing it.

I unfortunately had “Update Automatically” enabled on two mobile devices, the first I knew of the problems were not being able to set a sleep timer and not being able to access my music library. Obviously no more auto update for me.

I am not visually impaired and was not aware of this feature. However if “Screen reader for visually impaired customers” was in the previous version then this show a callous disregard for people who have a visual impairment

Of course I am taking your update timeline as something set in rock, I’ll believe it when it happens but I can only say releasing this app and pushing it out on auto update has been a very disappointing experience

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Danno Dapter

Contributor I

Why would you launch a huge update and then give notice of “planned” revisions to fix what worked a week ago. There are a multitude of options to stream music on line like Spotify and Pandora and others (Alexa, Smart TV’s, Phones, Laptops, etc) but not for playing from your music library. Especially for us early adopters that have spent so much money. I purchased Sonos exclusively for the purpose of playing my own music library. I get you are trying to be the Roku of music streaming but why take out functionality and ignore so many of your users. Why rush an update too early when you already have a working product. My Sonos is unusable. My playlists and cover art is gone. Everytime I open the app it says “Something went wrong” and it’s the update. Adding music to to Queue, Playlists. How could you take away a function at the core of what this device is supposed to do. Talk about going backwards, I can only play one album at a time and have to manually select it like it was the 80’s and I only had CD’s? Just why? I don’t see anybody else mentioning but the volume control has a different resolution where you have to press so many more times to get a small adjustment. Also, the volume pop up was helpful. That’s gone too.

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Toolio

Prodigy II

After reading numerous discussions about the disastrous update and the obvious lack of concrete, useful responses from Sonos I have realized that Sonos does not care about its customers, their opinions, or their needs.

BeMike

Contributor II

The old app ver. 16.1. can be downloaded here:

Sonos 16.1 APK Download by Sonos, Inc - APKMirror

BeMike

Contributor II

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WaikoloaCharlieG

Lyricist I

@jedmunds2017 , That would require an underlying change to Sonos, so that the ‘player’ resides on your controller, rather than on the speakers themselves.

Then just do that!

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Nflonly

Enthusiast I

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

Hmmm drag and drop, you are optimistically hopeful. All they have said is ‘adding to the queue’. Anything more than that might be several months away.

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Nflonly

Enthusiast I

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.

Screen reader for visually impaired customers: May 21
Adding and editing alarms: May 21
Adding to queue and playing next: early June
Sleep timer: mid-June
Local music library search and playback: mid-June
Update Wi-Fi settings: mid-June

One thing I don’t see here is anything to do with Playlists. I’d like a timeline for that pls.

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