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29th Sept 2026 📲 New Sonos App & Update Now Available! 🔊

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  • September 29, 2026
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Liz P.
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Hey all! 👋🏻 We've got a new update live for both iOS and Android, here's a quick breakdown of what's changed. Want the full history of what we've been up to? Check out our App Release Notes here and System (Player) Release Notes here.

 

As always, this is a Phased Rollout, think of it like a wave, not everyone gets it at the same time. If you're on iOS and want to nudge it along, head to the App Store, pull down on your Account page (the one showing pending updates), and give it a refresh. That usually does the trick.

 

What's New:

 

App Update

Android & iOS - Sonos 27.0 / 89.1

  • Ace Ultra support - The app now works hand in hand with our all new Ace Ultra headphones.
  • Beam Ultra support - Full compatibility with the new Beam Ultra soundbar.

 

As always, feedback and questions are welcome. We read it all. 🙏

 

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    15 replies

    Stanley_4
    • Stanley_4
    • Grand Maestro
    • September 29, 2026

    Any way to get an early update option for Android users or does Google make that too difficult?

    Waiting a couple weeks to get full Android app support for your pre-ordered and just delivered new Sonos isn't good.

      • ClausN
      • September 29, 2026

      Great - but please also fix the library indexing bug which has been troubling your customers for a year by now 🙏

       

        • kdowling
        • September 29, 2026

        ​@Liz P. 

        In this new update, the “About Your System” page, Sonos System Info list. Each device now has “S1 or S2”: S2. Since this is the S2 app, and only works with S2 devices, how is this information useful? Is there a case where “S1 or S2” will say S1? 

          Airgetlam
          • Airgetlam
          • September 29, 2026

          It could be an easier identifier for Sonos folks looking at a diagnostic. But that’s a guess.  

          Bruce
          Smilja
          • Smilja
          • September 29, 2026

          ​@Liz P. 

          In this new update, the “About Your System” page, Sonos System Info list. Each device now has “S1 or S2”: S2. Since this is the S2 app, and only works with S2 devices, how is this information useful? Is there a case where “S1 or S2” will say S1? 

           

          As of June 2020, all new products are S2-only.

          »And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
          • kdowling
          • September 29, 2026

          ​@Liz P. 

          In this new update, the “About Your System” page, Sonos System Info list. Each device now has “S1 or S2”: S2. Since this is the S2 app, and only works with S2 devices, how is this information useful? Is there a case where “S1 or S2” will say S1? 

           

          As of June 2020, all new products are S2-only.

          That is correct. The question is, why is the “S1 or S2: S2” shown at all in the device’s system info when all the devices are S2 and there’s no chance any device could be S1.

            Smilja
            • Smilja
            • September 29, 2026

            Looks like it's just a rename of 'Sonos OS' (the corresponding support page hasn't been updated yet).

            Check Sonos system information | Sonos

            »And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
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            • mhd
            • Enthusiast I
            • September 30, 2026

            Your update upgraded my speakers from S1 to S2 without my initiation. FYI: I had downgraded to S1, since Music Library support is still a work around when adding, and indexing a nightmare. After years…. Why don't you fix these issues first??? And why did my speakers update anyways?

              Schlumpf
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              • Schlumpf
              • Virtuoso
              • September 30, 2026

              Your update upgraded my speakers from S1 to S2 without my initiation. FYI: I had downgraded to S1, since Music Library support is still a work around when adding, and indexing a nightmare. After years…. Why don't you fix these issues first??? And why did my speakers update anyways?

              No idea how you got this managed… There is no automatic S2 update for S1 devices initiates by the latest S2/Sonos27 app update. 
              Myself I use a S1 and S2 System on the same network and yesterday’s update did absolutely nothing to my S1 system. 

              Ralf
                Stanley_4
                • Stanley_4
                • Grand Maestro
                • September 30, 2026

                Any way to get an early update option for Android users or does Google make that too difficult?

                 

                Answering myself after a couple hours reading Google tech stuff: Nope, not something Google's system allows.

                  Smilja
                  • Smilja
                  • September 30, 2026

                  Any way to get an early update option for Android users or does Google make that too difficult?

                   

                  Answering myself after a couple hours reading Google tech stuff: Nope, not something Google's system allows.

                   

                  The Google Play Store does not always show all actually available updates right away. You have to wait until all apps have been updated and then check for updates again. Often, additional updates that were initially missed will show up afterward.

                  »And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
                  Stanley_4
                  • Stanley_4
                  • Grand Maestro
                  • September 30, 2026

                  You are addressing a different issue.

                  According to the Google documentation no amount of checking, or any other activity can force a staged update (rolling release) to appear before it is scheduled for your account.

                  • kdowling
                  • September 30, 2026

                  Your update upgraded my speakers from S1 to S2 without my initiation. FYI: I had downgraded to S1, since Music Library support is still a work around when adding, and indexing a nightmare. After years…. Why don't you fix these issues first??? And why did my speakers update anyways?

                  I’m not sure how that happened. I also run S1 & S2 here. It did not upgrade any S1 devices to S2. As far as I know, there is no way for that to happen unless someone (accidentally) initiated it.

                  Smilja
                  • Smilja
                  • September 30, 2026

                  At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. What's the point of having the latest app version if features are being unlocked gradually through the firmware update?

                  »And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
                  Stanley_4
                  • Stanley_4
                  • Grand Maestro
                  • September 30, 2026

                  If you don't have the latest app version there are no new features to unlock. Once you get the new app you are in the queue to get things unlocked. 

                   As a user I dislike both but I can see how it is a bood thing for Sonos. 

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