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Contributor I
May 24, 2024
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New app not working on my ipad

  • May 24, 2024
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The new app works on my phone but not at all on my iPad. If I’m out no one at home can access the Sonos!
Any suggestions would be helpful - other than replacing Sonos with Alexa!!!!

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Pools-3015
Prodigy I
May 24, 2024

Have you taken any steps to get the iPad connected?

Is the iPad on the same network/VLAN as your Sonos system?

Reset the app and try connecting to the system again.

Uninstall the app, then reinstall it. It should ask you if you want to connect to your system

 

CanWeTalk
Trending Lyricist I
May 25, 2024

I too have this issue as well, new app runs on I phone (SE)  and was working on IPad Pro (iOS 17.4.1) when first installed.

Opening the Sonos app this morning on the IPad, icons for music services were grayed out and functionality to select speakers was such that when I selected a set, the app stayed on the speakers screen and I could not  go back, scroll, or open anything else on the app.

I uninstalled the app, re installed it and it seemed to work, I selected speakers and music service and let it play. Came back a couple hours later, opened the Sonos app on the IPad and again the music services icons were grayed out and the  app informed me my music queue was empty.

all the while I am hearing the music I had selected playing around me.

going to my IPhone (SE) the app seems to run OK. Though I have seen it a little slow to “catch up” to what is playing and on which speakers.(data collection?)

Looks like a software issue to me, shall we fix this, sooner rather than later please?

 

 

 

Airgetlam
May 25, 2024

I honestly am not sure it’s a controller issue, as it runs well on my two iPads Pros, which are both running iPad OS 17.5.1

What I’m suspecting is more of a network issue, where the iPad is not connected to the same ‘node’ of your WiFi as the other device (your phone). 

Is there any chance you’re running some sort of network extender, or mesh network of some type? How is your network set up?

Bruce
Pools-3015
Prodigy I
May 25, 2024

I honestly am not sure it’s a controller issue, as it runs well on my two iPads Pros, which are both running iPad OS 17.5.1

What I’m suspecting is more of a network issue, where the iPad is not connected to the same ‘node’ of your WiFi as the other device (your phone). 

Is there any chance you’re running some sort of network extender, or mesh network of some type? How is your network set up?

I feel the same way, which is why I started a post asking users to post their network setup. It does not have to be a detailed description, just what they use. Just a few people responded with networks similar to my own, that has all APs hardwired. 5 of my 11 speakers are also hardwired. 
 

 

Airgetlam
May 25, 2024

I tend to stay away from Unifi myself. Seems to be an excellent system if you’re a networking expert, whereas for mere mortals like myself, just too many options to mess up. ;)

Bruce
CanWeTalk
Trending Lyricist I
May 25, 2024

My network is the same as it’s been for at least a year. No changes. Just the app. This is a Sonos issue, not my network…BTW now my I phone SE Sonos app can’t find my system at all, not just my I pad.

sonos fix this… let us go back to the old app.

oh, and music I had on several speakers is still playing from earlier today, but I can’t control it from a device!!!

CanWeTalk
Trending Lyricist I
May 25, 2024

The app has regained functionality on my phone still no joy on I pad. Same network 

Lyricist I
May 26, 2024

I am seeing a very similar symptom. I actually have 2 iPads, on the same network. One works, the other used to work, but doesn’t today. Same version of IPadOS. I have tried removing and reinstalling the app with no success. It let me log in (VERY slowly) and it can see my devices, but almost everything is greyed out and there is nothing I can do to control the system.

 

CanWeTalk
Trending Lyricist I
May 27, 2024

Still having issues, opened Sonos app this morning, on my iPad, all icons grayed out. Tried rebooting the iPad, the app then opened and I was able to select speakers, etc. 

on iPhone,  app opened up grayed out but then came to life after 15-20 seconds and I was able to select and pause/play.

Then went back to iPad Sonos app and it is grayed out again.

Lyricist I
June 9, 2024

I have the same issue.   iPhone and iPad on same network.  Both have latest version of IOS 17.5.1.  Home Network is a 10G eithernet with fibre between the switches.  iPas is connected with an Apple 1GB Eithernet Dongle and mounted in the wall.  

Ping to rounter from iPad is 0.19 ms, ping form the iPhone (WiFI - 6) is 0.359 ms.

Everything has been stable and working with no changes to the hardware or network until Sonos dropped the new app.  Its an App problem, it is not a hardware or network problem. 

THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED.  We have Sonos in every room, including connect amps and speakers everywhere.