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Contributor I
May 8, 2024
Question

New Sonos update - where is the alarm function?

  • May 8, 2024
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Hi, I have two Sonos One and three IKEA symfonisk.  Following the recent app update I can no longer find the alarm function under settings.  I have processed through all levels and nothing.  Has it been removed?

 

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27 replies

Lyricist I
May 9, 2024

I can’t edit or turn off alarms in the new app.

 

My son has a daily alarm at 0630 to get him up for school .. except he just finished school yesterday and now has national exams over the coming weeks meaning he does not need to wake up at 0630 each day but at variable times. 
 

Last night I went to change his alarm to a later time but couldn’t do it in the new app .. so he was woken up at normal time and has not had the sleep needed .. this will impact his exam performance today.

 

Sonos .. these poorly thought out and rushed changes have real impacts on people’s lives. FIX IT NOW!!!

Lyricist I
May 9, 2024

If the alarm is not fixed in the next few days, sonos goes in the trash !

ScottyOHSAuthor
Contributor I
May 11, 2024

I wrote to Sonos and had a long reply that gave me all the changes that they had made for the better, which completely missed the point.  They said that other services omitted will be added over time; they had better be quick as I have already started the search for a better system.  Enjoy your Sonos everyone.....

Lyricist I
May 14, 2024

This update has trapped us in a world of ghost alarms and removed one of the most useful functions of the app, as many here have already stated. Also the sleep timer is incredibly useful and and had become an integral part of our daily routine. Removing these features with little explanation is a stunning mistake that is terribly inconvenient.

Contributor I
May 15, 2024

I was also having troubles with this, what resolved it for me was doing a system update. this should have happened automatically (per my settings), but apparently it didn’t work as intended...

as others mentioned, this was an upsetting experience where i was waking up early to turn off these ghost alarms for a week and there weren’t any useful pieces of information on Sonos’ website… they’re lucky the product is good because the UX is crummy.

Lyricist I
May 16, 2024

I just noticed this myself however if you open the Sonos app and do an undate on your speaker, I noticed that then after you update the speaker, when you select manage then you’ll see alarm along with others that you couldn’t see before. It works now. Hope this helps, good luck, now what I don’t see is the timer for the music to stop after an x amount of time. If someone know how to do this, and show us this would be great!!! Thank you

Enthusiast II
May 16, 2024

It’s NOT on the IOS app, but still located on the desktop app on a MAC OS. Sonos also keeps reenabling the automatic update. You can’t shut it off, it’s getting reenabled.  

Lyricist I
May 17, 2024

Huge turn off that the alarm is gone. Will most definitely make me look elsewhere when buying my next system if this is not solved quickly. What a bad design decision!

Enthusiast II
May 17, 2024

Huge turn off that the alarm is gone. Will most definitely make me look elsewhere when buying my next system if this is not solved quickly. What a bad design decision!

It’s just a terrible update, not sure who decided to release this half-baked beta app. It was clearly NOT ready for prime time. This isn’t the first time; they did this about 5 years ago. Suddenly informed everyone that the first gen devices would be disabled. They did an about face after they received thousands of complaints about systems people bought would be rendered useless.  That should have been a wake call to be diligent with releasing updates that don’t kill people’s systems. 

Lyricist I
May 18, 2024

Here is how I got my alarms back. You must follow each step: 

  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