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The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

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April 23, 2024
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Today we are introducing the most extensive app redesign ever, creating an unprecedented streaming experience that allows listeners to organize their favorite playlists, stations, albums and more from over 100 services on one customizable Home screen.

The new Home screen provides faster access to Sonos system controls with one easy swipe up, making tab to tab jumping a thing of the past. As a leader in sound experience that’s focused on creating a better way to listen, Sonos intentionally redesigned the app on a modern software platform for an easier, faster and better experience that can support more rapid innovation.

The reimagined app supports all existing S2 products and will be available globally through a software update for the S2 mobile app.

100+ streaming services, one Home screen

The redesigned Sonos app prioritizes a listening experience that’s human - allowing you to bring your true favorites front and center and giving you more control to make your streaming experience your own.

Get into your music (and off the app) faster: No need to tap between tabs — the new Home screen serves up all your favorite content and controls, all in one place. Quickly jump back into your recently played, browse libraries and recommendations from your preferred services, and fill your home with music and all the sounds you love.
Customize and curate: Enjoy unparalleled curation by designing your Home screen to reflect how you listen. Pin rows of your favorite content and services; then move, edit, or rearrange them to your liking.
Search every streaming library: Look for an artist, song, podcast, or audiobook across all your preferred streaming apps at once via an easy-to-use search bar that’s always available right on your Home screen.
Elevated system control: Swipe up from the bottom of your Home screen to seamlessly control your entire system and access a visual overview of what’s playing on each of your products, quickly group speakers, and dial in on the perfect volume from anywhere in the app.

Accessible from any modern web browser, a brand new web app allows listeners the same seamless system control as the mobile app.

The Web App will be available alongside the redesigned mobile app on May 7, 2024.

Want to find out more about the new Sonos App? Have a look at the Info Hub section of the community for a complete rundown of the new user interface.

Here you can find the full press release.

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Absolute40

Enthusiast II

With 80.00.08 app, I can now add / modify Alarms but they are not triggered at the said time either with Sonos Chime or Playlist.

Has anyone met the same issue ?

I just realized that the Alarm is triggered 1h later than the set time… Alarm set at 7am → it rings at 8am :(

I got the support over phone and they confirmed that it is a known issue that will be resolved (hopefully) with next app/firmware release

They rushed that hotfix out the door and didn't test it properly again! Could be a day light savings issue.

Again customers are the beta testers!

Bring back the old Sonos app. It was clunky, but it actually worked!

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jos1311

Contributor I

SonosWhat are you doing? I'm so proud of my stuff here1 Acr 2x era 300 2x ply5 and once sup also play 1 and a roamHow happy I am with it and what REGRETWhen I read your attitude like this, you don't care one bitand that is very disappointing, look, it is true, friends, bless you, what beautiful and good stuff you haveNow I am obliged to give in to myself, but don't startFortunately, I now have my daughter, who wanted to buy an Era 300, read this and other forumsthat she knows what she is getting intoSONOS again RUN BACK THAT OLD SOFTWARE 16.1and come back with a good working app                                                    From a deliver the user

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dpg50000

Enthusiast II

Can people please stop posting that Sonos didn’t run a beta (there’s at least one post in this topic from a beta tester who confirmed they reported all the most common issues) or doesn’t know how to do software development.

There is no way they didn’t know that removal of basic features such as queue management would annoy their customers. The fact is senior management wanted something released on that date, probably to coincide with the quarterly results and investor update, and they just didn’t care about the effect on their customers. A sad state of affairs that means I won’t ever spend another penny with them.

bockersjv

Local Superstar

Agree, there is clearly a Management Bonus attached to the 7th May.

And yes, very sad. This issue completely overshadows the upcoming Headphone launch that I was looking forward to. Now I won;t be going near them.

Also disappointing how few Sonos vloggers/YouTube “experts” are calling Sonos out for this.

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castalla

Local Superstar

Can people please stop posting that Sonos didn’t run a beta (there’s at least one post in this topic from a beta tester who confirmed they reported all the most common issues) or doesn’t know how to do software development.

There is no way they didn’t know that removal of basic features such as queue management would annoy their customers. The fact is senior management wanted something released on that date, probably to coincide with the quarterly results and investor update, and they just didn’t care about the effect on their customers. A sad state of affairs that means I won’t ever spend another penny with them.

Also, stop telling us how much you've spent, asking for a rollback, etc. Sonos will do whatever they want, whenever they want. Tips and suggestions, help, are useful posts for others.

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It's the courageous bee's knees - all 6 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝. - - - - - Make Sonos Great Again - - - - -

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castalla

Local Superstar

Agree, there is clearly a Management Bonus attached to the 7th May.

And yes, very sad. This issue completely overshadows the upcoming Headphone launch that I was looking forward to. Now I won;t be going near them.

Also disappointing how few Sonos vloggers/YouTube “experts” are calling Sonos out for this.

The press coverage has been very weak over this - hardly critical at all. How this impacts future sales is the most important point and will more likely cause Sonos grief than anything else.

I for one will never buy another Sonos device whatever solution they cobble together UNLESS they offer a full refund for existing devices.

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It's the courageous bee's knees - all 6 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝. - - - - - Make Sonos Great Again - - - - -

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Sam_hh

Trending Lyricist I

The alarm clock has been back since 80.00.08, but ....The alarm clock with a desired wake-up time of 6.30 only wakes up with a two-hour delay, at 8.30 am. Could it be that the current local time is not being used?

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Biggles63

Lyricist I

Today we are introducing the most extensive app redesign ever, creating an unprecedented streaming experience that allows listeners to organize their favorite playlists, stations, albums and more from over 100 services on one customizable Home screen.

The new Home screen provides faster access to Sonos system controls with one easy swipe up, making tab to tab jumping a thing of the past. As a leader in sound experience that’s focused on creating a better way to listen, Sonos intentionally redesigned the app on a modern software platform for an easier, faster and better experience that can support more rapid innovation.

The reimagined app supports all existing S2 products and will be available globally through a software update for the S2 mobile app.

100+ streaming services, one Home screen

The redesigned Sonos app prioritizes a listening experience that’s human - allowing you to bring your true favorites front and center and giving you more control to make your streaming experience your own.

Get into your music (and off the app) faster: No need to tap between tabs — the new Home screen serves up all your favorite content and controls, all in one place. Quickly jump back into your recently played, browse libraries and recommendations from your preferred services, and fill your home with music and all the sounds you love.
Customize and curate: Enjoy unparalleled curation by designing your Home screen to reflect how you listen. Pin rows of your favorite content and services; then move, edit, or rearrange them to your liking.
Search every streaming library: Look for an artist, song, podcast, or audiobook across all your preferred streaming apps at once via an easy-to-use search bar that’s always available right on your Home screen.
Elevated system control: Swipe up from the bottom of your Home screen to seamlessly control your entire system and access a visual overview of what’s playing on each of your products, quickly group speakers, and dial in on the perfect volume from anywhere in the app.

Accessible from any modern web browser, a brand new web app allows listeners the same seamless system control as the mobile app.

The Web App will be available alongside the redesigned mobile app on May 7, 2024.

Want to find out more about the new Sonos App? Have a look at the Info Hub section of the community for a complete rundown of the new user interface.

Here you can find the full press release.

Overall, it’s a backward step imho. Simple steps like changing channels are a hop and a skip whereas it was a simple one click action before. It’s slower to respond/navigate/refresh and crashes or loses connection much more often now. There may be features that I’ve not found, but if is clunkyer than before I’m more likely to use it less or stop using it completely than I am to go digging around to find them. Can I switch back to the previous version?

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HenriR NL

Enthusiast II

Agree, there is clearly a Management Bonus attached to the 7th May.

And yes, very sad. This issue completely overshadows the upcoming Headphone launch that I was looking forward to. Now I won;t be going near them.

Also disappointing how few Sonos vloggers/YouTube “experts” are calling Sonos out for this.

well, it might be a clue as to how bloggers & co earn some money ...

Bumper

The alarm clock has been back since 80.00.08, but ....The alarm clock with a desired wake-up time of 6.30 only wakes up with a two-hour delay, at 8.30 am. Could it be that the current local time is not being used?

Read elsewhere people having a one hour delay on alarms. Seems they put alarms back , but not bug free. No surprise.

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