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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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DeanShaw

Enthusiast I

Did the update but only on my iPhone and not the iPad which I use most. My NAS library is working okay, thank heavens, but can’t find a way of creating a queue of songs either from my library or Apple Music, only lets you create a new queue, also can’t search for tracks from my library.

Poor show from Sonos for letting this be released like this.

Also rather surprised that no one from Sonos has responded to any of these comments, unless I missed it amongst them all.

press250

Prodigy III

Wow - what a terrible experience. I note people are complaining about missing features. I’d just like the included features to function at a reasonable speed. It’s so slow, taking 5 to 10 seconds to respond. I’ve uninstalled it and got the previous version back from APKMirror. What on earth possessed you to put this out?

You’ve not experienced the new web app, have you? It makes the new mobile app feel instantaneous.

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User11

Lyricist I

Please bring back volume level displayed in number. Only way i can find it now is by choosing to group speakers.

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only_sleeping

Enthusiast II

Ok, here´s the timeline for the (old) new features that are gone with the update:

https://www.smarthomesounds.co.uk/blog/sonos/sonos-new-app-launched

Auto Trueplay / Quicktune Era (100 & Era 300) - Arriving in Late May
Snooze Alarms - Coming in June
Google Assistant Setup on Android - Coming in June
Sleep Timers - Coming in July
Find Missing Products Tool - Coming in July
Offline Devices - Coming in July
Queue & Playlist Editing - Coming in July

This is missing “search for local/network tracks” - the omission here, and the fact that this mirrors the “new” style search from the old S2 app makes me wonder if it’s ever coming back.

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HenriR NL

Enthusiast II

I have a nice Sonos set all thrue the house. Because I want to use a CR200, I still run S1.
Well done me :-)

Absolutely. Why Sonos wants to keep mucking around with what is like a remote for the telly is beyond me. Such colossal waste all around. For my own reasons I am on S1 since 2020 and all I have to fuss over is which album to play today! Either from Spotify or from my NAS.

Lucky you , poor / dammed us … 😢😩

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kennylowrie

Enthusiast I

Ok, here´s the timeline for the (old) new features that are gone with the update:

https://www.smarthomesounds.co.uk/blog/sonos/sonos-new-app-launched

Auto Trueplay / Quicktune Era (100 & Era 300) - Arriving in Late May
Snooze Alarms - Coming in June
Google Assistant Setup on Android - Coming in June
Sleep Timers - Coming in July
Find Missing Products Tool - Coming in July
Offline Devices - Coming in July
Queue & Playlist Editing - Coming in July

This is missing “search for local/network tracks” - the omission here, and the fact that this mirrors the “new” style search from the old S2 app makes me wonder if it’s ever coming back.

Just bring back the s2….simple...why wait

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GregBelf

Contributor I

After hunting around the new app for an hour for where to find things on the new IOS app, I finally contacted support. They told me that some features such as sleep timer local music library (note that there is no definitive list anywhere on what was lost). They also said that these things would come back in future releases. I asked whether these future releases were coming in week, month, or year. They just repeated “future”.

so I guess I just have to hunt around to figure out what no longer works...hard to tell what’s just moved and what’s gone.

...I guess I’m just joining the chorus of folks saying Sonos should finish the product before releasing it. Heavy sigh

NOTE: Tech support also told me that once you upgrade, you can never go back. In the comments here I see folks saying there may be a workaround...but if the Sonos tech support folks don’t know it, I wonder if it’s real.

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ljpom

Lyricist I

For the Sonos Port, can you please restore the ability to set the Line Out level to Fixed as described in https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/set-up-your-sonos-port

Fixed allows the Digital Out connector to pass along the decoded signal without any limiter applied

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castalla

Local Superstar

Ok, here´s the timeline for the (old) new features that are gone with the update:

https://www.smarthomesounds.co.uk/blog/sonos/sonos-new-app-launched

Auto Trueplay / Quicktune Era (100 & Era 300) - Arriving in Late May
Snooze Alarms - Coming in June
Google Assistant Setup on Android - Coming in June
Sleep Timers - Coming in July
Find Missing Products Tool - Coming in July
Offline Devices - Coming in July
Queue & Playlist Editing - Coming in July

This is missing “search for local/network tracks” - the omission here, and the fact that this mirrors the “new” style search from the old S2 app makes me wonder if it’s ever coming back.

Just bring back the s2….simple...why wait

They should make the S3 optional for those who want a pretty interface. Leave S2 for those who want something more practical.

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

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cedrblanc

Lyricist III

Does anyone know of an alternative to the Sonos app on ios?
I need to access my library locally, (SMB or Subsonic equivalent)
I'm really disappointed with Sonos, how can they release such a disastrous app, they should have left the old version alongside the new one.

You could try Plexamp or if you use Home Assistant it has Sonos support but I find both a bit lacking but I am not giving up yet but if I do give up I will just go back to Google casting 🤦🏼

i’ll try this, thank you

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