The new Sonos S2 App Sucks

About all we use this system for is Television & now it will not connect. Have used Sonos for years & never anything like this. Presently having to use Television speakers, which are not real good by anybody. Can Sonos not just give me back what we had. Must we “update”?

New Sonos app is the WORST!  Honestly the software version n general has been declining in recent years.  I have been a looong time Sonos user and advocate. Their aoftware used to be flawless. Worked extremely well every time.  Pre the latest release it was getting clunky.  Slow to load, slow to recognize my devices, devices coming and going in the software, and other issues with services.   It was a slow decline and brocade it happened over time ot was sort of tolerable.  
 

Then they release their latest version and it’s a complete botched piece of crap.  It looks really slick but the functionality is the absolute worst.  Not intuitive and not user friendly.  
 

I absolutely hate it. Keep the old one and just make it more reliable and robust!!!!

The best thing you can do is apologize and revert. It is so bad guys. Totally un-intuitive. Your focus groups, if you used any, totally failed you. I get totally frustrated with it every time. It used to be so easy to show off to friends when picking a new song to play. Now I still can’t figure it out. Just awful. 

What a joke. This app update is grounds for a class action. 

I am also very unhappy with the new app. The old S2 app worked so much better. I updated the app on my iPhone before I had heard how unhappy people were with the new app but once I tried it and it’s lack of so many features that were available with the old S2 app I tried to restore the old version to no avail. I intentionally did not update the version on my iPad and then today it automatically updated!

Sonos, if you want to continue being known as the best wireless speaker system, you need to fix this problem! Stop forcing updates that people don’t want. Stop creating updated software that has fewer features than the previous version.

Same here. It constantly knocks me out of my active connection. It still plays music but I have to redo all the connections to change the song

Anyone know of an alternative to Sonos that we can jump over to?

If I can’t interface with otherwise quality equipment, what’s the point? I’m more than happy to yank the ten Sonos amps out of my AV rack and bid this company good riddance. They failed us spectacularly here.

Update  S U C K S.  
 

Not intuitive at all.   Apparently just a dead speaker icon left of volume level.    Poor use of real estate.    Lousy interface.   Anyone at Sonos actually use this before pushing out?

Can’t believe Sonos went from my favorite app to my least favorite overnight. I have recommended this system to so many people and we are all upset with this new upgrade. It’s the worst upgrade I’ve ever seen. Please switch back to the old app until you figure out all the things that are wrong with new one. 

Why take a fairly straightforward app meant to quickly find and play music and make it confusing, cluttered, and counterintuitive? I do not know. But I suppose the designers of this new interface had their reasons. After using all the previous versions of this app all day for years, I’m rushing to find an alternative that doesn’t make me hunt and scroll and swipe to find what used to be instantly findable. What an absolute piece of garbage.