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A new Sonos App update is now available!

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Hey everyone!

This morning, we deployed an update to the Sonos app with a few changes and improvements to the user interface and experience. See below for a list of some of the things coming in this update.

iOS: 80.24.35
Android: 80.24.32

Improved Speaker Icons & Badging
- Updated hero speaker icon for grouping / output selection
- Add badging to the speaker icon to afford the number of targetable rooms in the group
- Use of color to communicate selected speakers
- Note: Web Controller will only be receiving the updated icons, not badging (numbers)
iOS 16 Limited Compatibility
- Devices that are unable to update beyond iOS 16 are:
  - iPhone X, iPhone 8 & iPhone 8 Plus (and older models)
  - iPad (Gen 5), iPad Pro 9.7 & iPad Pro 12.9 (Gen 1)
- There have been in app pop-ups on devices running iOS16 since July 7

Important Note: In the upcoming weeks, older Sonos players will feature a distinct firmware version compared to newer devices. This change will not impact your listening experience. It is designed to maintain product support and enable future innovations without impacting your current high-quality listening experience. These players will continue to receive essential updates, ensuring they are not 'frozen.'

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craigski

Local Superstar

What is actually displayed is a single “speaker” icon with a (1) next to it. What this “speaker” icon with a (1) refers to is a single “room” that may contain more than 1 “speaker”. 😀

Smilja

What is actually displayed is a single “speaker” icon with a (1) next to it. What this “speaker” icon with a (1) refers to is a single “room” that may contain more than 1 “speaker”. 😀

A "Sonos Room" refers to a standalone device, a stereo pair or a home theater setup.

Rooms
A “room” is a singly-addressable zone in the Sonos app. It may be one speaker, two speakers, two speakers and a Sub/Sub Mini, or a whole surround sound setup. Importantly, each room can only play one source at a time, and all equaliser or TruePlay settings (and others) apply to the entire room.
The largest room possible is one with one soundbar, two Subs, and two surround speakers. You cannot add front speakers to a soundbar - it already contains drivers for playing those channels.
Each room get’s it’s own name, which can be changed at any time in the room’s settings.
Rooms can be added to Groups.

»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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craigski

Local Superstar

Yes, I understand the concept of a Sonos “Room”. In the App a “Room” is displayed as a “Speaker" icon. I was highlighting the irony of the icon and the number next to it, ie the “Speaker” icon is really a room, and the (1) next to it indicates a single ungrouped room, that could contain multiple “Speakers” in a stereo or HT setup.

buzz

Grand Maestro

Someone thought that the ‘(1)’ was a good idea. I don't. I think that it is clutter .

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craigski

Local Superstar

Someone who has never seen the Sonos App before, would naturally think its 1 new notification for a ‘Speaker’.

Smilja

Perhaps it’s technically not feasible to display it in another way. Therefore the group starts with a single “room”.

»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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Rhonny

Prodigy III

My setup includes two gen 1 Symfonisk speakers, and a Sub gen 2, named in the ‘older’ list by @Mike R. H.

Anyone got any idea/thoughts on what the mentioned ‘future innovations” might be that will apply fine to the firmware of newer products (say, the One onwards) but that my mentioned speakers will eventually be unable to accommodate?

High-res Lossless?

Smilja

High-res Lossless?

Features that place enormous demands on CPU and RAM.

»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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Gaham

Headliner I

This sounds a lot like what a lot of users were asking for when the S1/S2 split happened but was deemed “not possible” by Sonos at that time.

This may actually be the first indication that the “code restructure” has some benefits to users of older speakers. It might also protect those speakers from the disruption inevitable caused by newer innovations that they were not designed to accommodate.

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ALJ1996

Lyricist III

This may actually be the first indication that the “code restructure” has some benefits to users of older speakers. It might also protect those speakers from the disruption inevitable caused by newer innovations that they were not designed to accommodate.

Symfonisk first Gen were discontinued in 2021, it’s crazy that my four year old lamp speakers are now officially “old”.

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