Contributor I

New SONOS app: many features no longer available!

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May 7, 2024
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Think twice before you install the new SONOS app as at least the following features are no longer available (temporarily or permanently):

Sleeptimer has disappeared completely. Either you sleep the entire night with music on or you wake up to switch off the music… Quite defeats the purpose.
Alarms: creating and editing an alarm is no longer possible. You can only toggle an existing alarm on and off.
Local music library: make sure you don’t remove it as it is no longer possible to add a local music library stored on a NAS or shared device. Also the search doesn’t work on the local library any longer; it only searches the online music services. Sonos seems to have finally let down its initial user population that made Sonos big before music streaming services existed…

Either this is a deliberate choice by Sonos to reduce the functionality or someone validated a pre-beta release for production to meet some preset deadlines… In any case, don’t upgrade if you need these features.

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Sstraten

Lyricist I

Glad I only renewed the app on my iPad and not on my iPhone. I read everywhere functionality of streaming services seems to be unharmed but that is not the case for nugs.net. I re-installed the service and authorized it several times but it’s stil not possible to connect with nugs.net in the new app on my iPad. The funny thing it still works perfectly in the old S2 app on my iPhone.

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RogerWF

Enthusiast II

Think twice before you install the new SONOS app as at least the following features are no longer available (temporarily or permanently):

Sleeptimer has disappeared completely. Either you sleep the entire night with music on or you wake up to switch off the music… Quite defeats the purpose.
Alarms: creating and editing an alarm is no longer possible. You can only toggle an existing alarm on and off.
Local music library: make sure you don’t remove it as it is no longer possible to add a local music library stored on a NAS or shared device. Also the search doesn’t work on the local library any longer; it only searches the online music services. Sonos seems to have finally let down its initial user population that made Sonos big before music streaming services existed…

Either this is a deliberate choice by Sonos to reduce the functionality or someone validated a pre-beta release for production to meet some preset deadlines… In any case, don’t upgrade if you need these features.

I've uninstalled this complete failure that was ejected from the anus of Sonos. Hope they don't mess with the desktop version, but I may be pissing into the wind...

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yoepie

Trending Lyricist I

For Apple (iPhone or iPad) users:
Use SonoPad instead of the 'new’ Sonos app.

BennyB0Y

Enthusiast I

I don't understand HOW the following is happening.

I always have Automatic Updates in the SONOS app switched OFF.

I manually update my apps in Google Play. Have been doing so for over the last decade.

Even installing the APK independently, the SONOS app STILL went from 16.x to 80.x 2 days later by itself.

This update is being forced somehow, unless I've missed something somewhere.

** UPDATE! ** - I've removed the new SONOS app from ALL my other Android devices. Let's see how it goes....

BennyB0Y

Enthusiast I

Sinds plaatsen van update werkt gans de App totaal niet meer zoals ervoor. Valt steeds weg en start dan opnieuw volledig op om dan weer van het scherm te verdwijnen. Gelukkig nog geen update gedaan op ander bedieningsapparaat, anders geen controle meer mogelijk.

Ook verschillende keren opnieuw geprobeerd, steeds de zelfde fout.

Wat nu??

Ich befürchte, dass dieses Update allen aufgedrängt wird. Ich weiß nicht warum, aber selbst wenn die Updates deaktiviert waren, hat es Sonos auf meinen anderen Geräten immer noch verändert. (übersetzt von Google)

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Mike65555

Trending Lyricist I

My wife has iPhone like myself with my Sonos account on her phone I checked her phone she has the old s2 app still not the new one that I updated to my phone glad I had auto updated turned off so I will be using her phone to operate Sonos using the old s2app what a relief

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Mike65555

Trending Lyricist I

I’ve had a nightmare with new Sonos app

So many things missing I just thought I’ll check my wife’s phone and to my surprise her phone hasn’t updated to new version cos auto update was turned off so everything check your partners phone if they have the old version on lol

BennyB0Y

Enthusiast I

I don't understand HOW the following is happening.

I always have Automatic Updates in the SONOS app switched OFF.

I manually update my apps in Google Play. Have been doing so for over the last decade.

Even installing the APK independently, the SONOS app STILL went from 16.x to 80.x 2 days later by itself.

This update is being forced somehow, unless I've missed something somewhere.

** UPDATE! ** - I've removed the new SONOS app from ALL my other Android devices. Let's see how it goes....

Nope! Somehow the app keeps getting forced to the new version even using just the APK. Is anyone else having this same event? 🤔

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Berts

Contributor I

Good morning,
since the update of the new app 89.00.04 release 20240507.671125b on May 7,
the trueplay feature has been crashing. Through apple task manager, I have to swipe out the sonos app. Does anyone have a solution? Via the old app on another iphone it does work.
Help!

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MiniVilla1

Lyricist I

I too want to contribute my disappointment with this update. I loved this app! I used the sleep feature almost nightly. I hope with enough complaints the company will restore the app to what is was before this horrible update.

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