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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?

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Dean_25

Avid Contributor I

Sonos absolutely needs to allow us to choose to disable this stupid “feature”! I have my favorite station set to wake me up and play for a few hours. I want my three wall-mounted controllers to show what’s the station is playing, NOT a stupid message I have to dismiss ON EVERY CONTROLLER! Just one more thing Sonos forces on us.

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Dean_25

Avid Contributor I

At least give us a global setting to TURN OFF the annoying, unnecessary “features” (aka BUGS) you add to your poorly-designed, un-beta-tested app.

Why not add the USEFUL feature we have been requesting for TEN years, the option to have the NOW PLAYING screen be the default screen that the app returns to after selecting a program.

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DunkirkPie

Enthusiast II

This is just such classic Sonos bs.

Instead of using finite development time to fix the myriad bugs/poor UI choices in your dreadful app, you decide to add extra functionality which nobody wants or needs, which serves no useful purpose, and which actively annoys users. And of course it is forced on customers rather than being optional.

If you’re looking for things to mess about with, I have plenty of suggestions. For example, how about with the alarms, instead of having to set a volume, have an option to maintain the existing system volume? So those of us who use the alarms as music schedulers throughout the day can (for example) have an alarm which changes the radio station at 10am from a news station to a music station, but maintains the existing volume. There you go, functionality which actually adds something useful. It’s not rocket science.

Who thought this was a good idea? Stuff like this makes me wonder whether anyone who works at Sonos actually uses Sonos.

thomi_ch

Lyricist III

How long does it take to make an update? years???...

At the day, there is a identical alternative to sonos which is more user friendly.. lots of people will change…

Sonos Dev's... go to work, test like you are the customer and go ahead…

thomi

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stewface

Lyricist III

Please please please give us an option to turn this off, I have multiple alarms setup daily to control music throughout the house, bathroom, Downstairs in the office. Etc

every time I open the app I see these, so disruptive and annoying

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stewface

Lyricist III

I thought I might start posting one every time I see it pop up.

so expect this 3 times per day every day 🤣

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craigski

Local Superstar

I didn’t get Alarm pop-up notification this morning after yesterdays (10/06/25) update, I wonder if this feature has been revoked?

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stewface

Lyricist III

@craigski I’m excited to get home and see for myself! Fingers crossed!

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stewface

Lyricist III

Sigh… 😔

3 times per day…

Every day I go into the app.

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Griff410

Lyricist I

F****** ridiculous… leave s*** alone that we don't ask for and fix the s*** that needs fixing! You had a nearly perfect environment and app a couple of years ago before you decided to rip it apart and f*** all of us paying damn good money for your ecosystem that you've damn near destroyed. The alarm is the music playing I don't need a f****** pop up telling me it's playing! I use mine for rain sounds for sleep now I have to constantly click out of a pop up no one asked for and that we cannot disable. How about this, don't add anything that we cannot control fully. Go back to what we had that f****** worked! Jesus everyone at Sonos should be fired and replaced with half competent people.

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