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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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    Alan_6
    Prodigy II
    August 22, 2024

    is it just me or can we still not simply delete a track from the queue/playlist??

    Was supposed to come back July, then August now September/October. So who really knows. 
     

    It’s wild it is taking so long to bring back something as basic as this. Well maybe not so wild since they told us it wasn’t going to be missing before the app release. 

    Consider all the other really crazy bugs and annoyances introduced in the last few months (eg. suddenly not dealing with the “Artist” tag properly so you can’t play compilations or albums with a guest artist on track 3, or the useless “favorites sorted by the date you added them” navigation). Some of these things are a basic change. Some of them will be somewhat tricky to fix. Code is hard.

    I’m sure Sonos has a big bug backlog list, and unless the broken feature you found really useful is at the top of their priority list, good luck.

    DaveS00
    Lyricist III
    August 22, 2024

    I am still hoping they fix the automatic connection between systems - the old app connected seamlessly when I moved between the house and the garden office on separate wifi systems as soon as my phone had connected to the router in each - I currently have to manually find each system every time I move...which is often!

    Separate wifi networks? That sounds like a highly unorthodox setup. I’m surprised it ever worked.

     

    Perhaps unusual for a home setup - but segregating a network, WIFI or wired into seperate zones isn’t unusual. Splitting work/home makes a lot of sense to keep each seperate to restrict whoc an access each network

    BVRBVR
    Contributor I
    August 22, 2024

    is it just me or can we still not simply delete a track from the queue/playlist??

    Was supposed to come back July, then August now September/October. So who really knows. 
     

    It’s wild it is taking so long to bring back something as basic as this. Well maybe not so wild since they told us it wasn’t going to be missing before the app release. 

    Consider all the other really crazy bugs and annoyances introduced in the last few months (eg. suddenly not dealing with the “Artist” tag properly so you can’t play compilations or albums with a guest artist on track 3, or the useless “favorites sorted by the date you added them” navigation). Some of these things are a basic change. Some of them will be somewhat tricky to fix. Code is hard.

    I’m sure Sonos has a big bug backlog list, and unless the broken feature you found really useful is at the top of their priority list, good luck.

    Like I said back in May when this disaster began to unfold.

     

    PotemkinMcNasty
    Enthusiast II
    August 22, 2024

    Will we be seeing RSTP support; or at least STP that conforms to standard?  This has been a feature request for years.

    kuhawksrq
    Renowned Listener
    August 22, 2024

    We are overdue for “new software updates on a bi-weekly cadence”.

    Current software version

    80.06.04 (Android)
    80.06.03 (iOS)

    Release date: 8/6/2024

    El_Magnifico
    Trending Lyricist I
    August 22, 2024

    We are overdue for “new software updates on a bi-weekly cadence”.

    Current software version

    80.06.04 (Android)
    80.06.03 (iOS)

    Release date: 8/6/2024

    True … but the 8/6/2024 release was much less than 2 weeks after the previous one.  So perhaps it’s just regressing to the mean now!

    BVRBVR
    Contributor I
    August 22, 2024

    is it just me or can we still not simply delete a track from the queue/playlist??

    Was supposed to come back July, then August now September/October. So who really knows. 
     

    It’s wild it is taking so long to bring back something as basic as this. Well maybe not so wild since they told us it wasn’t going to be missing before the app release. 

    Consider all the other really crazy bugs and annoyances introduced in the last few months (eg. suddenly not dealing with the “Artist” tag properly so you can’t play compilations or albums with a guest artist on track 3, or the useless “favorites sorted by the date you added them” navigation). Some of these things are a basic change. Some of them will be somewhat tricky to fix. Code is hard.

    I’m sure Sonos has a big bug backlog list, and unless the broken feature you found really useful is at the top of their priority list, good luck.

    Like I said back in May when this disaster began to unfold.

     

    I read in an interview on the web that the old app can’t be rereleased because the cloud technology has been so changed that it would be unstable and worse than the new app.
     

    The strange thing is that I’m using the old s2 app and it works as it always did, just fine. I have ports, amps, a move and a roam.  I don’t stream, I just use my local library. 

      skullc
      skullc
      Prodigy III
      August 22, 2024

      @BVRBVR 

      i on the other hand just stream and play vinyl my s2 16.1 app still works fine so not sure what cloud changes they are referring to but it seems untrue in my opinion 

       

      Network= livewire cpe pro 3 +eero 6 pro wireless
        BVRBVR
        Contributor I
        August 22, 2024

        @BVRBVR

        i on the other hand just stream and play vinyl my s2 16.1 app still works fine so not sure what cloud changes they are referring to but it seems untrue in my opinion 

         

         

        skullc
        skullc
        Prodigy III
        August 22, 2024

        @BVRBVR 

        I wasn’t referring to you being the untrue person in this case 😊

        Network= livewire cpe pro 3 +eero 6 pro wireless
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