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April 23, 2024
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The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

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  • April 23, 2024
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The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

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.

 

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 new Web 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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    ronvgs
    Trending Lyricist II
    May 19, 2024

    Im trying to find the Battery% of my Roam, verry hard to find

    My First Sonos@2012
    Andre G
    Trending Lyricist I
    May 19, 2024

    Indeed, does anyone at SONOS review use input ????

    Asleep? 

    UnhappyCustomer
    Contributor I
    May 19, 2024

    Dear Sonos,

    It’s very clear that no-one likes this new app update. There is no use in trying to fix it, as at this rate it will take months. The writing is on the wall. The app needs to be rolled back to the previous version. This new version needs to be put back into development and only released after proper and thorough quality control with all the features available from the previous app.

    In software, nothing should be released until it is absolutely ready with proper quality assurances.

    It is very broken on Android in particular.

    Please rectify the situation by rolling back the update ASAP.

      TTBdBoy
      Lyricist II
      May 19, 2024

      Who ever approve the new app update should be unemployed. Did people even try using it before it was released, it’s honestly sooo bad I’m considering getting out of the Sonos ecosystem after 8yrs and over 15 different products. It’s that bad…

        J123456
        Avid Contributor I
        May 19, 2024

        Who ever approve the new app update should be unemployed. Did people even try using it before it was released, it’s honestly sooo bad I’m considering getting out of the Sonos ecosystem after 8yrs and over 15 different products. It’s that bad…

        Apparently they did have beta testers, i asked if there was any of them here (it was my 1st post here actually) but i got no reply. Later on i read a comment from someone who said a beta tester had commented about the state of the app during his testing, i had a quick look but i couldnt find it. 

         

         

          Morphs
          Lyricist II
          May 19, 2024

          The iPad version need to be different form the mobile version, the usage of popup windos in the iPad version is a waste of screen, I really loved to have the play list in the side specally when in a party. For me the “tab” in the lower part of the screen was really good, it allowed you to move on search, playing now and what is been lisened on the system.

           

          Another thing I miss is the “Play Next” option once you find that song you want so hear without loosing your play list. Acctually, it will be good to have back all the options we used to have (Play Now, Add to the end… etc.)

           

          And the last one is that if you find a song you hit to play, you listen to your song and the after the song ends nothing comes after that for example when you found your song in the “Top Tracks” on Tidal that really is anoying as the app looks dumb, it only play what youa asked for and nothing ealse.

           

            Andre G
            Trending Lyricist I
            May 19, 2024

            Does anyone at Sonos actually use the app? has it been tested prior to launch? Unlikely or Sonos employs imbéciles who are unaware of the damage caused to Sonos brand franchise 

              Berghia
              Lyricist I
              May 19, 2024

              The new Sonos app is no good if you have a local music library. I could not figure out how, or even if, I could add my local music library with the new app. Even if it is possible, it is not intuitive; my local music library should simply be there when I update the app, and the fact that it does not automatically show up is a serious oversight by Sonos.

              About 50% of my listening is from my local music library (i.e., a NAS device on my network), rather than using a streaming app, so this Sonos update was unusable.

              I ended up deleting the new Sonos app from my Samsung Galaxy S24, and then reinstalled the previous version from March 2024. I went to www.apkmirror.com/apk/sonos-inc/sonos-for-android/sonos-for-android-16-1-release/#downloads, and used Version arm64-v8a. It is also important that you then turn off automatic app updates on your phone, if you have not already done so. Otherwise, the Sonos app will simply automatically update again at the next opportunity.

              I will use the old version of the app and will not update for as long as the local music library feature does not work better in the new app. If the new version of the app does not eventually automatically accommodate my local music library, I will be forced to eventually leave Sonos for another product, after many years of using it. It’s really too bad...I’ve been very happy with Sonos until this fiasco.

                Toolio
                Prodigy II
                May 19, 2024

                Unlikely or Sonos employs imbéciles who are unaware of the damage caused to Sonos brand franchise 

                “Courageous” imbeciles.

                  randylscott
                  Lyricist I
                  May 19, 2024

                  I am so frustrated with the new Sonos App.  Even S2 from S1 lost some functionality which I learned to live with.  I can’t, unfortunately, even revert back to S2 from the latest update.  I have not been able to choose a song from spotify and have it play on sonos...is just keeps searching.  In the Sonos app, I was able to (once only) choose the playlist from spotify from within the app.  Great, I can adapt to that.  All that said, when I wanted to fast forward a song that I did not want to listen to….it was unresponsive.  I could not even adjust the volume (don’t get me started on the volume setting and adjusting multiple speakers).  I then found I could not even stop the song!  I open up the app this morning, and it is just trying to load the speakers/and all the backround crap.  It is beyond frustrating.  I listen to music so much of the time at my home and now I feel as if the new app is preventing this.  Most of the day today, I have just been using my bluetooth speaker.  Please allow us to revert back until you get this app fixed.  I can’t imagine that anyone (or more than one person) vetted this before release.  Please sonos….help.  Such a bad taste from this.

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