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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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    JmanNYC
    Contributor I
    May 23, 2024

    Line-in no longer has an autoplay function?!? Also when groups of speakers are set to line in the entire app/system freezes. Need to ungroup, switch app to line in, and regroup. Annoying.

    BrianJG
    Enthusiast II
    May 23, 2024

    Another update yesterday and another facility removed. Where's My Music on the LAN? Now I can only stream music. That is not why I bought into the Sonos system. A nightmare 😫 

    Exactly. I have thousands of songs in my personal library. I do not want to stream SONOS radio or someone else’s playlists. I do not want to have to recreate everything I have in Spotify or any other service. 

      Rmplp
      Listener
      May 23, 2024

      I've spent thousands on products and the one thing I use regularly is the widget for android. Where has it gone?

      It's no good saying your introducing features in the coming weeks, when is my widget coming back?

      Sonos had a functioning app only for it to be totally changed and functionality as well as appearance being messed up, and fir what reason?

      Please roll back the version, fix all these bugs that your Customers are complaining about and relaunch if you have to!

        MarionPasadena
        Contributor I
        May 23, 2024

        NO easy access to my playlists I have curated over years. I have to use AirPlay. You’ve taken a really easy to use app and created a horrible replacement. Did you ever consider doing consumer testing with a range of people? Your app was one of the best things you had going. And you’ve ruined it.  

          ChooChooStu
          Trending Lyricist I
          May 23, 2024

          I have nine One’s, two Five’s, a Beam 2 and a port. Now they’re more trouble than it’s worth to use.

           

            BVRBVR
            Contributor I
            May 23, 2024

            Another update yesterday and another facility removed. Where's My Music on the LAN? Now I can only stream music. That is not why I bought into the Sonos system. A nightmare 😫 

            Exactly. I have thousands of songs in my personal library. I do not want to stream SONOS radio or someone else’s playlists. I do not want to have to recreate everything I have in Spotify or any other service. 

            But you could have this:

             

            timc995
            Prominent Collaborator I
            May 23, 2024

             

            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: May 21, 2024. See release notes.

            • VoiceOver on iOS now properly interacts with individual elements of the Sonos app's home screen - and now adds improved VoiceOver support for allowing for navigating and controlling the Now Playing Screen, System View, Output Selector, Queue, Volume Sliders, and Add Product
            • Improved TalkBack support for the Now Playing Screen, System View, and Add Product
            • Improved Local Music Library playback of folders
            • Adding and editing alarms with the ability to Search for content


             

            Coming soon

            • Continued improvements to navigation for visually-impaired customers: mid-June
            • Adding to queue and playing next: early June
            • Sleep timer: mid-June
            • Local music library search and playback: mid-June
            • Update WiFi settings: mid-June
            • Snooze alarms: TBD

            Per the support page (https://support.sonos.com/en-ca/article/downgrade-a-sonos-product-to-s1):

            Sonos app version 80.0
            The ability to downgrade a Sonos product to S1 is temporarily unavailable, but will return in a future update.

             

            When will this be available?  It seems to have been missed in the list above.

            I respectfully suggest that Sonos adds the ability to downgrade S2 products back to the S1 app, so that it can be done without requiring a second app.  This capability used to be in the S1 app but was taken away from the S1 app about a year ago.

            If nothing else, this would mean that products marketed as “S1 compatible”  or “Sonos App and S1 compatible” can be added to an S1 system.  As it stands now, https://support.sonos.com/en/article/sonos-app-version-compatibility is not accurate.

              jamindds
              Listener
              May 23, 2024

              When will the Sonos app work with my Rockbot subscription again?! I’m stuck playing the sonos radio stations that I can’t even customize.

               

              I’m totally frustrated and when I called support they were absolutely helpless.

              GC3
              Headliner I
              May 23, 2024

              stupidest thing I've encountered is not showing numeric volume level on main screen slider🤷‍♂️

              I mean...how effing complicated is it to code this basic feature?

                amblue02
                amblue02
                Lyricist III
                May 23, 2024

                We set out to create a more personalized and effortless listening experience with the updated Sonos app.

                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.

                 

                You have just released a version THAT FORCES A FIRMWAREUPDATE ON OUR UNITS!!!!!!!!!

                What the H*** are you thinking?!?!?!?!?!?

                Now we can’t even use the bloody App without forcing an update on the system units…

                You have lost ALL respect, ALL! 

                 

                 

                Yup - I fully agree. SONOS is moving fully into share holder value and is simply riding the existing customer base. Some fall out is to be expected. Who ever is left will have to pay extra to make up for the churn of lost customers in this transition to a pay-per-use / pay-by-personal-data / pay-per-advertisement cloud service to continue to use your own SONOS boxes.

                Just take a look at who is driving SONOS. Ex-SONY and ex-Broadcom employees. SONOS seems to be working on “expanding portfolio of software enabled hardware and services” - fully in line with making our audio boxes totally dependent on their cloud services. Technically, that requires many changes to the firmware and the app to make every thing got through their central servers.

                Looking at what Broadcom did with the VMWare licensing, I have a good feeling what is ahead of us. e.g. recurring fees for using my already purchased speakers.

                Well, I cut my boxes from the internet. I will not install any firmware updates. The consequence is, I can not use this new crappy app anymore and use my SONOS boxes only via Airplay. But at least I can still do that and SONOS can not take that away from me.

                Speaking of Shareholder Value, the stock is now below $16 at $15.97.  Seems that shareholder value has been destroyed with the market cap down -11% since the “refresh” was introduced.

                 

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