Sonos New App Response?

From Twitter

”The latest version of the Sonos app is our most ambitious software update yet, and we know there is still more work to be done. To ensure all features meet the standards of our listeners, certain functionalities will not be available at this time. We appreciate your patience as we make future improvements.”

What a worthless answer.  Essentially says that “we know that the app is lacking and we might fix somethings at some future point in time.”  Just leaves everyone hanging with a pretty much non-functional app that has actually made the hardware functionality worse.

If you have an Android phone, you can get the previous version back so long as you turn off auto updates for the Sonos app in the play store. 

Also disable automatic updates in the SONOS App. While operating in this mode, adding products will likely be impossible because this will require an update.

I have done that also 😊

I now have my android phone with the old app and the iPad sadly stuck with the new version! 

…but what about all of us who use the alarm feature and can’t turn it off or amend it!!? How many months will we have to live with a wake up alarm which we may not need! They need to give answers and stop treating us as fools and it would bite nice if journalists including the verge didn’t let them off so lightly. 

Some are saying alarms will come back in June. But I mean who knows, either way it’s too long.If you have the desktop app can edit alarms  there. 

Normally, somebody shoots theirself in one foot.  Sonos seem to have taken out both feet and are lying comatose on the ground unable to explain how this all happened 😝

It took a lot of courage for them to do that though 🤣

This is truly outrageous. I’ve used Sonos for at least ten years — and one of the MAIN reasons I’ve used it is the precise functionalities they just eliminated with no warning, no recourse, and not a word about if or when they’ll put those critical functionalities back. There are a lot of options out there. If this blunder doesn’t get fixed in the next few weeks, I’m out for absolutely certain.

One question. I have the new unusable crap app on my android phone now. I’ve turned off auto update. Now how do I get the real app back? Delete the unusable new one and then redownload the old app that worked? Will that old version be available? Sorry if this a dumb question!

Thanks!