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How do I turn off in app alarm notifications?

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February 2, 2025
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I am now getting “An alarm is playing in X room” in-app notifications all the time. Seems to be happening since the last update. I know an alarm is going off. I set the goddamn thing. I want it to go off. What I don’t want is a pop up notification telling me it’s going off. That is incredibly stupid and annoying. I see no way to turn off this notification. I am on the most recent app update, iOS.

The only thing for “Pop-up Messages” in the whole app I can find are for when “new prodcuts or features are available” in the App Prefences section. Doesn’t seem like that’s the place to disable this. Doesn’t seem to be anything about pop-up notifications in the alarm section of the app either...

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Best answer by Johnny Rico

Truly, this is a solution in search of a problem. I have our dinner music alarms scheduled daily and our wake-up classical music scheduled on the weekend mornings. So, I make heavy use of these. Yes, “alarms” is what they’ve always been called, but if you want to have some music come on at a certain time on a regular basis, you use an alarm, so I think of them as a schedule system. Anyway, as others have said, I know there’s an alarm, I set the alarm. Am I really to think that someone else in the house has configured an alarm that I’m not aware of to play in some room in a faraway wing or something? Nobody else runs the Sonos except me! When I open the app to look at an album cover or the name of a tune while the alarm is playing, I have to dismiss that ridiculous alert and it’s well beyond tiresome at this point. Please get rid of it. Nobody will miss it. I mean, a year you removed half the functionality in the app and had no qualms about it. I kid, I kid. What, too soon?

Jamie A

Sonos Staff

Hi @chomskyknows,

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having issues with alarms in the Sonos app. Our last update added the option to snooze alarms in the app with a pop-up notification, which has the options: Snooze, Stop, and Keep Listening. The notification popping up with those options is expected behaviour.

The notification should only show once per alarm though (unless you Snooze it, in which it will resume automatically after 9 minutes), so if a notification keeps showing up for the same alarm, please let me know.

Currently there is no option to stop the snooze notifications, but I can forward this to the relevant teams as a feature request.

I hope this information helps!

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chomskyknowsAuthor

Avid Contributor I

Thank you.

It is annoying behavior IMO. Give us the option to turn this off…

A lot of us use these “alarms” as “schedulers”.

I have a TON of these playing random music throughout the day. You are litterally spamming me with pop-ups now all day long, that I have to click a thing to make go away. My guess is a bunch of us use it the way I do.

Even if I weren’t using it this way I can see how this would be utterly annoying to some just using it as an alarm. There are 2 types of people using alarms as alarms. People that get up immediately or relatively immediately after alarms. 2) doofuses that hit the snooze over and over again pissing off their roommates (the person that will find your annoying snooze useful).

Understand that people use this function as a scheduler, not just an alarm. You should re-brand the concept that way anyway...

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craigski

Local Superstar

Isn’t the the Sonos ‘Alarm’ feature an ‘Alarm’, not a music scheduler? My guess is your requirement for a music scheduler is something different, eg something like this:

https://soundsuit.fm/how-soundsuit-works/

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chomskyknowsAuthor

Avid Contributor I

It’s called an “alarm” — I’ve used it as an alarm and a scheduler. It’s another thing that worked, then they took it away, then they brought it back, then it’s buggy sometimes for some people, and now they’ve made it completely worse because now it is spamming me with garbage I don’t want to see.

If I open the weather app on my phone, I don’t want a stupid pop-up notification that says “hey buddy, just so ya know, there’s weather happening…” No s*** really? Then I have to click that stupid message off to get to the damn weather.

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Dissatisfiedcustomer

Lyricist I

Very annoying update.

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Taurus_519

Lyricist II

Please shut off or give the ability for us to shut off the alarm notification. Who asked for this, And why did you implement it without making a setting for users to shut it off? The app doesn’t have a dedicated music scheduler, so many of us use the alarms for this purpose, and now we have an annoying pop-up to deal with. In my case, I have three alarms per day where I have the music changing. The options for these features are fine, but you have to add them to a settings that we can control. Please keep user preferences in mind when implementing UX changes. Thank you

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E3nc

Lyricist III

Thank you.

It is annoying behavior IMO. Give us the option to turn this off…

A lot of us use these “alarms” as “schedulers”.

I have a TON of these playing random music throughout the day. You are litterally spamming me with pop-ups now all day long, that I have to click a thing to make go away. My guess is a bunch of us use it the way I do.

Even if I weren’t using it this way I can see how this would be utterly annoying to some just using it as an alarm. There are 2 types of people using alarms as alarms. People that get up immediately or relatively immediately after alarms. 2) doofuses that hit the snooze over and over again pissing off their roommates (the person that will find your annoying snooze useful).

Understand that people use this function as a scheduler, not just an alarm. You should re-brand the concept that way anyway...

Please give us the option to turn this off. Everything the user has said is spot on and the pop up is completely unnecessary if you use Sonos alarms as a “music scheduler”, which by the way is a completely reasonable, logical, and even previously advertised way (advertised by Sonos themselves) to use the alarm feature.

pix4dc

Contributor I

Driving me crazy too!!

Please remove the updated SNOOZE feature on ALARM or create a SCHEDULE feature to the SONOS app…PLEASE!!

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expatbadger

Lyricist I

The notification should only show once per alarm though (unless you Snooze it, in which it will resume automatically after 9 minutes), so if a notification keeps showing up for the same alarm, please let me know.

This isn’t how the notification is working, at least in my case. The pop-up appears each time I open the app, and sometimes again in-app when I perform an action like adding an unrelated (i.e., not alarmed) speaker to a group. Moreover, every notification itself claims that the alarm has been playing since [current time], not the actual alarm start time.

I somewhat understand the intention with this notification. However, please make it truly dismissible, not something that appears each time I open the app.

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Zivva

Lyricist I

Just give the option to disable that pop up.

You and your selected pool of beta testers might enjoy seeing this or have any use for it, some users don't.

Why anyone would need that pop up ? If one wants to snooze the alarm, one clicks on the stop button in the player. Exact same number of clicks, exact same behaviour. Value of that pop-up : zero. Only a nuisance for some of your customers …

And that damn pop up appears anytime you open the app, not only once per alarm. Contrary to your expected behavior …

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