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New SONOS App - Alarms

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 8, 2024
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App has been upgraded, We onlu have IOS no access to Mac or Windows,

Lost ability to use alarms etc

Can we reverse upgrade and go back?

New app is awful! so user non friendly

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Pinned Reply By Jamie A

Hi all,

With the latest update, alarms are now available in the Sonos app. You’ll need the latest version of the Sonos app and speaker firmware to have them show, and steps are posted in the Sonos App Redesign AMA, which are:

Update your app to:
1. iOS: 80.00.08 - available now in the App Store
2. Android: 80.00.05 - available now in the Play Store
Update your firmware to 79.0-52294 - available now via the Sonos App:
1. Tap the settings gear in the top right
2. Select “Manage” next to your system name
3. Select System Updates
4. Select Check for Updates
Launch the Sonos app twice in order to guarantee we fetch the latest feature flags:
1. Start the Sonos app
2. Force quit the app
3. Start the Sonos app again

Once you’ve performed the above, you’ll find alarms in the Sonos app under System Settings (⚙) → Manage → Alarms.

You can view the current roadmap on our article for Future Feature Updates in the New Sonos App and also in the Release Notes for Sonos software updates.

If you have any further feedback to share, please continue to share it the main topic for the New Sonos App linked below or any relevant threads on the community:

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Gijsbertus

Lyricist II

Nonsense, alarms are maybe visible, but not working.
And besides, it is as well no more possible to play multiple content in different rooms. What an unbelievable miscalculation to call the latest update an upgrade.

PloppyC

Lyricist III

Not sure whether this has been mentioned elsewhere (far too many complaints to read them all), but am I right in thinking that System-Manage is only available to a logged in “system owner”?

If so, how is anyone who is not the system owner supposed to use alarms?

I’m not touching my device firmware just in case it bricks my currently working v16 desktop app, so can’t (and won’t) check for myself.

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tln2

Trending Lyricist I

Tried the new alarm in S3

S2 favorites do not work, and it appears favorites are needed if you want to play music.

If you create a new S3 favorite (in my case a SiriusXM channel), then the alarm will properly play music.

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TarHeels

Trending Lyricist I

Where in the hell are the alarms? They were restored and have now disappeared again. God, I hate Sonos right now.

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paolokkk

Contributor I

New app destroy Sonos use. Very bad, if you make off one speaker, he became ghost forever. No alarm, a lot of delay, a lot of confusion. Very very very bad

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Gijsbertus

Lyricist II

And what is Sonos going to do???

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paolokkk

Contributor I

I hope new upgrade, the last one is not complete

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TarHeels

Trending Lyricist I

And now every time I exit the app on my Android phone, when I open it back up it forces me to "update." So I have to go through that process, even though there are no updates. The app is wonky and it takes forever to open, even when it tries to behave.

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Nancy Albasini

Lyricist II

Alarms are there but…...they only play in a single room now. I’ve lost the ability to select a group and have the alarm start playing on all speakers in that group. The Include Grouped Rooms option doesn’t include all grouped rooms. When I open the app to select my ALL grouped room, the app doesn’t recognize that anything is even playing. I can’t add rooms, I can’t stop the music, I can’t adjust the volume. Nothing. If I open and close the app multiple times, it might start recognizing that something was playing and finally start responding to changes. The lag time is awful. It took 3 minutes for it to respond to a volume change. Overall, this app upgrade is actually WORSE than what we had before. Not only did it not address the lack of responsiveness and the poor connectivity but we lost all of the features that made the system useful and enjoyable despite those shortcomings. In the future, maybe actually USING the app before you roll it out would have alerted you to the many many many shortcomings it has.

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Sweet Jimmy

Lyricist II

Hi all,

With the latest update, alarms are now available in the Sonos app. You’ll need the latest version of the Sonos app and speaker firmware to have them show, and steps are posted in the Sonos App Redesign AMA, which are:

Update your app to:
1. iOS: 80.00.08 - available now in the App Store
2. Android: 80.00.05 - available now in the Play Store
Update your firmware to 79.0-52294 - available now via the Sonos App:
1. Tap the settings gear in the top right
2. Select “Manage” next to your system name
3. Select System Updates
4. Select Check for Updates
Launch the Sonos app twice in order to guarantee we fetch the latest feature flags:
1. Start the Sonos app
2. Force quit the app
3. Start the Sonos app again

Once you’ve performed the above, you’ll find alarms in the Sonos app under System Settings (⚙) → Manage → Alarms.

You can view the current roadmap on our article for Future Feature Updates in the New Sonos App and also in the Release Notes for Sonos software updates.

If you have any further feedback to share, please continue to share it the main topic for the New Sonos App linked below or any relevant threads on the community:

Thank you for adding back the alarm function. Now, my big beef is the fact that you removed the ability to play music directly from music folders on my phone. You've forced us to use a shared external storage device. WHY!?

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