Version 8 for IOS is terrible

I love my Sonos kit but I have to say the new release of controller is awful. Switching content and rooms just seems so much more clunky now, I’m never 100% which room or group i’m changing music for. Switching rooms is horrible too, the place I got to intuitively gives me the option only to group not switch.

If this was the app available when I bought my first Sonos 1 I would have exactly one Sonos speaker in a cupboard, rather than over ten around the house.

Favourites is a waste of space too, who lists content like that alphabetically??? Allow customisation or at least list the ones used most often on the home screen.

The old controller was intuitive and worked so well, this one is a disaster. Needs sorting soon, do I continue to invest in the Sonos brand or jump ship now?

Sonos - PLEASE don't go backwards! I LOVE the new app. Take some time to get used to it perhaps?

The earlier reply says select "rooms", where is that !!!!!!!!!!!

In the bottom black menu bar! There is:

"My Sonos, Browse, Rooms, Search, More"

I think perhaps a bigger improvement would be to have the new Sonos 'bar', which includes the Search button, visible on the Now Playing screen.

Yeh, I can see the confusion - good point.

People, just press the little 'v' in the top left if you're on the now playing screen, you'll see the black nav bar at the bottom of the screen.

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I'm talking about the 'My Sonos' screen. If I can't customise it, it isn't 'mine'.


Try clicking 'edit' top right hand corner...

I too hate the new layout of the Sonos app. I install Sonos all the time as part of my job, it’s way more complicated to explain to people now and I find myself fumbling around often trying to find what I’m looking for. The previous layout of the app was significantly easier to navigate and if nothing else, it was as it has been. Sonos has done sort of the same thing that Microsoft did with windows 8 where they changed an interface that has worked in basically the same way since windows was first invented and everyone hated it. Different isn’t necessarily good (often it isn’t at all) and I really would rather they keep the app working the way it did before myself.

As far as editing the Sonos favorites list, I couldn’t find a way to change the order, only delete stations I put in there. I did tap edit, but it just gives me the red minuses to remove them and no way to move them up or down.

I love my Sonos kit but I have to say the new release of controller is awful. Switching content and rooms just seems so much more clunky now, I’m never 100% which room or group i’m changing music for. Switching rooms is horrible too, the place I got to intuitively gives me the option only to group not switch.

If this was the app available when I bought my first Sonos 1 I would have exactly one Sonos speaker in a cupboard, rather than over ten around the house.

Favourites is a waste of space too, who lists content like that alphabetically??? Allow customisation or at least list the ones used most often on the home screen.

The old controller was intuitive and worked so well, this one is a disaster. Needs sorting soon, do I continue to invest in the Sonos brand or jump ship now?

Probably best you jump ship

No extra features, it's just less intuitive and looks AWFUL! Bring back the black.

'My Sonos' has replaced Favourites. Some customisation is possible using 'Edit'. Not as much as I would like, but I think a bit more than the previous version. As far as I recall, Favourites were in alphabetical order so nothing has changed there, and you couldn't customise anything.

Actually, that's not the whole story. "My Sonos" replaces the simple favourites view with "favourites split into categories" which helps. Favourites are still a thing (as up to 32 tagged things that you can add to on navigation pages, and displayed all together on the desktop controller"). Unfortunately, the "edit" option on "My Sonos" actually:
1. Edits favourites, not the "My Sonos" layout (obviously)
2. Edits the "My Sonos" layout if you delete a favourite and bump the next one alphabetically onto the "favourite favourites" list
3. Doesn't let you edit the "My Sonos" layout (other than deleting favourites)
4. Lets you rename favourites, eg. so you can play the "rename your friend's Slayer collection 'One Direction'" game (other use-cases may be found)

So basically, there's no real customisation, and no way to usefully control layout, but you can click "My Sonos->Others->See All" to view your favourite artists.

I love my Sonos kit but I have to say the new release of controller is awful. Switching content and rooms just seems so much more clunky now, I’m never 100% which room or group i’m changing music for. Switching rooms is horrible too, the place I got to intuitively gives me the option only to group not switch.

If this was the app available when I bought my first Sonos 1 I would have exactly one Sonos speaker in a cupboard, rather than over ten around the house.

Favourites is a waste of space too, who lists content like that alphabetically??? Allow customisation or at least list the ones used most often on the home screen.

The old controller was intuitive and worked so well, this one is a disaster. Needs sorting soon, do I continue to invest in the Sonos brand or jump ship now?

Most of us can't afford to jump ship, I've got nearly £2k invested now so will just have to suck it up..

Worste bit was it was a forced update after buying another Sonos speaker.

Another quick point about favourites - the 32-item limit makes sense not just because "1000 favourites is an oxymoron" but because there was a limit to how many you could usefully fit on one or two screens without excessive scrolling. The old iPad screen-and-a-bit full of 32 tiles just worked. My current "My Sonos" two-screens of "one album, first-eight-alphabetically artists, two favourite playlists, first-eight-alphabetically non-favourite playlists" is really poor use of space. But I guess most people split their 32 favourites more evenly between three groups of eight...