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Avid Contributor II
May 8, 2024

New SONOS App - Alarms

  • 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:

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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:

 

233 replies

Lyricist III
June 2, 2024

Can someone please tell me I’m not the only one with no alarm still? Got an update for the crApp today but still won’t let me set an alarm! I’ve been late to work 3 times now. 3 

As reported before: go to settings ( the gear symbol) and then click on “manage”

Thats it!

Be aware that , in my case, alarm times are set in GMT, so the alarms are 2 hours late: I’m in CET  

I would recommend to check that out 

 

Enthusiast I
June 2, 2024

Many issues with Alarms in the new Sonos app. Glad to see the Alarms function is back, but it's still broken:

  • I find that the time picker to set the alarm time is horrible to work with. Tiny font, hair trigger scroll wheels. Olympic eye-hand coordination needed.
  • When I want to change a repeated alarm to a one-shot alarm, in the previous app that was a matter of unchecking all weekdays. Now, when I uncheck all weekdays, the alarm won't save. I have to check a single weekday, and then the alarm saves as one-shot, and I return to the configuration, all weekdays are unchecked. Which is of course counterintuitive and just wrong, but also means it's impossible to change a repeated alarm to a single weekday!
  • When I save an alarm, it's not automatically switched on, like it was in the previous version of the app. So changing and setting an alarm requires the extra step of switching it on after save. Should not be needed, why change perfectly good behavior?
  • ALARMS SOMETIMES, RANDOMLY, DON'T GO OFF AT ALL!!! This happens almost on a weekly basis. I've literally overslept three times since the new app was released. (And no, this has nothing to do with the previous point. It also happens with an all-weekdays alarm that never changes and is always on in my config.)

Is any of this on the radar of the dev team? Will fixes be available any time soon?

Lyricist I
June 2, 2024

I had two alarms set before the update and now the alarm go off at the same time every day and there is no way to turn them off. Please help. 

Contributor I
June 2, 2024

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 

 

Contributor I
June 2, 2024

My alarm function is mostly working now but it takes so many steps to get there it's ridiculous. For such a commonly used feature, it's really buried. Why not just include an alarm button on the main page?

Lyricist I
June 3, 2024

Hallo

 

When I set an alarm in the new app, It will not save that it is too include group rooms. This became a problem only after I changed the time. It’s quite annoying, especially since I use it to wake up every day, so the music starts in all bedrooms, bathrooms, and the kitchen

Contributor I
June 3, 2024

After I got “upgrade” to the new app, I struggle -as everybody- with the alarms. 

 

I managed to use the sonos app on a Mac to deactivate them due to having holidays here in germany. Yesterday I reactivated them, so it seems. According to the Mac Os App they are active, but none of the six alarms played this morning. 

 

I also tried to create new alarms and none of them did work. 

 

Any ideas what I can try? 

Lyricist I
June 3, 2024

Alarms don’t seem to work. My selected playlist doesn’t start. Today I tested it on chime mode to check and the alarm went off exactly two hours later (?). Any suggestions?

Lyricist I
June 4, 2024

Hi my app and software are on the latest version as of 4 June 9am. I go to manage > alarms 

but when i toggle the alarms to turn off 1 and turn on one and leave the page, the settings are not saved, i can’t delete or add alarms as well. 
 

please fix this it is a major inconvenience 

Contributor II
June 4, 2024

Hi, since the new app update I couldn’t understand why my alarm was not waking me. I have been to my Windows PC where it is easier to set the alarm and I have noticed that Sonos is showing the UK time as 1 hour behind the actual UK time. My Windows PC is showing the correct time, as is my iPhone. How can I correct the Sonos time? I never had this problem in the previous Sonos app, remember that one, the one that actually worked :o)