Sonos S2 Widget for iOS14.

  • 17 September 2020
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Are there plans to get a widget for controlling the most used speakers in your home? I would love to be able to turn up and down the volume on my playbar from the home screen.


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Hi @Wil_1, Thank you for reaching out and welcome to the community. About your concern on having a widget for the Sonos App, that is a great suggestion and feedback for a Sonos widget to be available so that you can control your Sonos products without going to the Sonos App. We'll make sure that we'll pass this on to our engineering and App development team as a feature request. Rest assured that we'll try our best to improve your experience with the Sonos App and our Sonos products.

If there is anything else you need, please, let me know.

The Sonos community is always open to suggestions and feedback.

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Yes pls, I second that. Painful having to unlock phone, locate the Sonos App, select the correct room and change volume. Having a iOS widget with volume up and down for the active room would be fantastic. This would make up for the slow and clunkyness of the S2 app. 

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+500 on this. You should really listen to your consumers. 

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Hi @PjSting and @bkharman, Thank you for reaching out and welcome to the community. Thanks for the suggestion and recommendations. This feature request is fully noted. and will be forwarded to our App development team for them to check on it. 

We're here to answer any further questions you have.

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It would be great if it also allowed for adding/removing speakers (check and uncheck) from currently playing audio.

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+another 500

 

small, medium and large Sonos widgets would be a game changer

 

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Hi to all, Thank you for reaching out and welcome to the community, thanks to all of your feedbacks. regarding this concern. We'll make sure that we'll pass this on to our engineering and App development team as a feature request. Rest assured that we'll try our best to improve your experience with the Sonos App and our Sonos products. They will be checking these ideas and feedback from you guys, and If possible, it may be included in the next updates in the future.

Let us know what you have in mind with the advice above.

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One more +500 here!

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Add another +500. Let’s make it happen team Sonos!! Need a Sonos Widget option on iOS 14+

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Yes, please.

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Hi folks, Thank you for reaching out and welcome to the community. We appreciate all the suggestions and feedbacks about having a widget control for the Sonos S2 App. Rest assured that We already passed this on to our engineering team as a feature request. Rest assured that we'll try our best to improve your experience with our Sonos products. At this moment, we can wait for further changes, or it may be included in the next coming updates. Thank you for your support. 

If you have other questions with your Sonos products, feel free to reach out.

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Yes, another +500 here! 
 

Really hard to believe it's still not there, after all these years 😔

It’d be amazing if the Night Mode toggle could be added into the widget too please

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This would indeed be a game changer! This should have been ready for iOS 14 in September. Does Sonos not pay attention to WWDC??

This would indeed be a game changer! This should have been ready for iOS 14 in September. Does Sonos not pay attention to WWDC??

Apple dropped iOS 14 on devs without notice. Unprecedented. Spotify only just added a widget to their app in the last week.

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Hoping this gets implemented in the next update, s2 not really bought anything new worth noting for me yet. +1 for this.

Exactly what I was searching on this forum!

Upvote for this idea !

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+1000 to this. I love my Sonos but I really wonder sometimes why the app (which should be a top priority) often lacks key features. Prioritize making the best iOS experience as humanly possible. 

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@Simon B Hi, any update on this being implemented? IOS 14 been out for a while now and very surprised Sonos haven’t added this to the app, been a couple of updates since. This is a very requested feature by users.

Thank you

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Hi @Mitchellsx, thanks for reaching out. As of the moment, we are currently waiting for updates from the right team about this feature request. We’ll keep all of you posted once there is an update about this request. 

If you have other questions with your Sonos products and features, feel free to reach out.

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I’d also love this!

However, for folk requesting interactive controls for things like volume, iOS 14 doesn’t currently allow for this, widgets can only display information, and link to particular points of the app (opening a specific task in a task manager, for example, not completing it within the widget).

Hopefully Apple will open up this level of functionality at some stage, but I would’ve get your hopes up until iOS 15 or after...

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@Simon B any more news on this update?

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Hi @Mitchellsx, thanks for reaching out. Upon checking on this request with our specialists. We don’t have any further updates about this feature request. If there is, we’ll update this thread as soon as possible.

If there is anything else I can do for you, please, don’t hesitate to let me know.

We're here to answer any further questions you have.

Hi @Simon B , it seems that there are no plans to implement widgets. Is this true? If yes, why?

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Hi @Halouser, Thank you for reaching out and welcome to the community. About your question. We don’t have any further updates about this feature request. As soon as there is any update from our team about this concern I’ll be updating this thread. I apologize that we can’t give any further details on what’s the status of this request since we are forwarding this request to the right team and we are all waiting for any progress for this request. 

If you have other questions with your Sonos products and services, feel free to reach out.

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