📲 New App Update Available! 🔊

Wow, at last! 😀

Also, the icons have changed to reflect the actual players in group volume control, rather than generic icons.

Just updated on Android and BBC showing program art on play - hurrah fixed…

Stopped and restarted playing the program and program art reverted back to the generic icon - harrumph not fixed…

Anyone any idea what could cause this? I have never had BBC program art since the new app two years ago, fine on PC and Phonos apps needless to say...

Question about the EQ shortcut - I have 2 Android phones which have both been updated. 1 shows the setting to turn this on. The other does not. Does that mean the other phone will have this feature ‘switched on’ in the future?

SarahN, The phased availability and then phased activation are not documented well enough to give a proper answer.

Probably yes.

Hoping a Sonos staff member can just clarify this for us :) 

Hi ​@SarahN 

Yes, exactly this.

In the interest of simply saying as much as I know, if someone (not you, as you have the feature on one device already) has a DNS blocker like Pi-Hole or AdGuard on their network (or a similar feature built into their router’s software) that blocks access to optimizely.com, they may never see the feature (or other new features in the future) until whitelisting optimizely.com or until opening the Sonos app while the DNS blocking software is temporarily disabled, at least.

This is because although the feature is coded into the new version of the app that you now have on both devices, the visibility of the feature in the app is controlled by a flag, as set by the Optimizely service. It is currently on a limited roll-out, so not all controllers (apps) will have it visible immediately after the update.

I hope this helps.

Edit: Explanation of Optimizely added.

Thanks ​@Corry P 

So I just keep checking the other phone to see if it’s there from time to time? 

Pretty much, ​@SarahN, though I’d only bother every couple of days - I don’t think the stages are particularly close to each other.

Also, you may want to refresh your page - I added a bit to my reply above. 😁

It would make sense to only update one, if the update breaks one device, the other device will still work? 😀

I’m guessing the staged roll out is based on % of specifics, if you match the specifics (eg phone/tablet device type, OS version) but maybe Sonos has only decided to roll out to 10% of that criteria, then you could be lucky and all your devices are updated, but also neither updated. Then Sonos will ramp up the 10% to say 50%, and then more likely that one or more devices will be updated, ie its a % of devices that match a defined criteria that Sonos would set. If no major issues the 50% is ramped up to 100%.

You may want to read through the optimizely.com privacy statement.

Sonos customers should refer to https://www.sonos.com/en/legal/privacy, as this the agreement Sonos customers agree to when installing the App.

The Optimizely privacy statement will be between Sonos & Optimizely.

I like the haptic feedback (is that the term?) for the volume slider on android, compared to before, a much better finer control

The layout is nice, plus the EQ shortcut is great. 

Well I like it. Nice work Sonos. 

Does the Content Services Playlist part mean you can edit and create Spotify Playlists for example (as opposed to just being able to add songs to one)?

Does saving a Sonos Playlist still allow creation of one with the same name as an existing one, as opposed to warning it exists and asking if you wish to overwrite?

I like the shortcut to the Eq.  It would be even better if Sub level was there too.

Continuing improvement to functionality on andrid phone.

However, despite local library now really as responsive as it has ever been there are still tje issues of album thumbnails not showing in queue and no hd/res banners. Given we've got icons for speakers etc now, surely they can be re-instated?

Will this update be available for the iPad? My iPad 13 has Build 82.0.0.39 and will not update past that version. My iPhone 16 has updated to Build 83.00.36.

FIXED --- Just ran the App Store Update again and now I have Build 83.00.36 on the iPad.

This is a rolling update, that means you get the app sometime, should be less than two weeks from the release announcement.

It also contains phased features that are enabled on a different schedule, once you have the updated app.

Read the first post here for details.

I was asking myself the same… iPad yes or no!?

I checked all out iPads and one of them was showing the option (but there I wasn’t logged into my Sonos account). After logging in (what is necessary to activate the option) it was gone. 
Strange…
Hm… so I suppose it will also be available on iPads. 

Generally all good, like the volume control and EQ changes, like the little speaker icons, BUT don’t like the fact that the shuffle songs feature on local music libraries has disappeared AGAIN.   After the pain we all went thru a couple of years back on this, it’s a shame this update has reintroduced the same issue.  Presumable a fix is on the way ?

Sonos rarely announces upcoming changes, might be in the release notes when it happens or lumped under "other fixes."

Thanks.   It would be good to get an acknowledgement of the issue however, then we might at least know they were thinking about correcting it.  It’s a significant loss for me personally and I recall many other users valued this function the last time we lost it.