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Shaun O
Shaun O
Sonos Staff
February 19, 2026
News

📲 New Sonos App Update Now Available! 📲

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The team is deploying an update to the Sonos app today. This release is a big one for Android users that brings a long awaited feature back to the Sonos App. As always, you can look at previous updates in our App Release Notes and System (Player) Release Notes.

 

This will be another Phased Rollout, which means that the update may not get pushed to your system right away. Some iOS users update by going directly to the App Store. If you still do not see the update, try refreshing the App Store by pulling down (as if you were refreshing a page) on the Account page that shows all your pending app updates. Note that this rollout will take approximately 2 weeks to reach all users.

App Update
 

iOS - 82.00.39

Android - 82.00.45

  • Android Notifications (lock screen and watch controls)
    • Control your system instantly from your Android lock screen or smartwatch with fast, familiar playback controls—no unlocking required.
  • Improvements to multi-system support on Android
  • On the iOS App Store, the Sonos app is now rated 13+ (14+ in Brazil) to align with updated App Store age-rating guidelines.

Release Notes & Support

You can find our full archive of release notes for previous updates here:

Do you have any questions or feedback? Let us know with a comment. We’re appreciate your input!

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      jgatie
      jgatie
      February 22, 2026

      The rules changed for Android and iOS, sonos is just catching up (we all know why). Personally I’m looking forward to when Sonos adds this to the iOS controller, hopefully soon. 

       

      Let me guess, you are talking about Dynamic Island?  

      Well golly gee, where have I heard that before?  🙄

      Michael.B
      Enthusiast II
      February 22, 2026

      I don’t believe there ever were such restrictions on Android.
      Android is rather permissive in regards to what apps can do and gives a lot of freedom to developers. So it is highly unlikely that Android policies could ever affect the Sonos app in that way.
      Sonos more likely just lost/dropped this functionality in its rush for the “new, courageous app” to reportedly support sales of their Bluetooth headphones.
      And now, after almost 2 years they are slowly restoring the highly demanded feature.

      As for iOS, I can imagine that they might have or might have not some restrictions like this.
      iOS is significantly more restrictive to 3rd party apps and might more likely impose such limitations.
      But I’m not enough iOS expert to judge.

       
      Michael.B
      Enthusiast II
      February 22, 2026

      Apple and Google have a very simple enforcement system, follow their rules or be removed from their App Stores.

      If the controls came back and Sonos is still available for installation either the rules changed or they aren't being enforced.

       

      If this was the case, why the pre-disater 16.1 app hadn’t been removed from the app stores until Sonos killed it themseves?
      Or were the restrictions from Google and Apple introduced exactly in May 2024, and Sonos was enforced to throw out the otherwise working controls from their brave new app? 😉

      JohnG666
      Enthusiast II
      February 24, 2026

      I received this update on my Android phone…. Is there a setting I need to change to enable lock screen stuff?

       

        106rallye
        106rallye
        February 24, 2026

        “This will be another Phased Rollout, which means that the update may not get pushed to your system right away.”

          Raguu
          Enthusiast II
          February 24, 2026

           

           

          Let me guess, you are talking about Dynamic Island?  

          Well golly gee, where have I heard that before?  🙄

          Yes and no.  Live Activities supports lock screen media controls, Dynamic Island allows the controller to be active in the notch. Both will be nice enhancements for iOS users when Sonos updates to support this. 

          jgatie
          jgatie
          February 24, 2026

          Whoosh!

          B33Jay
          Enthusiast II
          February 27, 2026

          Android.80.00.45 [28th Feb]

          Still waiting for local library to show album thumbnails in queue & hd/hi res banners.

           

            Triticale
            Triticale
            Prodigy II
            March 1, 2026

            Glad to know that Sonos is listening us and working to deploy the features we need!
            Also happy to discover that al the people saying these features were an imposible thing, were wrong. Nothing is impossible!

              jgatie
              jgatie
              March 1, 2026

              Glad to know that Sonos is listening us and working to deploy the features we need!
              Also happy to discover that al the people saying these features were an imposible thing, were wrong. Nothing is impossible!

               

              Nobody ever said it was impossible.  We said it was out of Sonos' hands, and one should lobby the makers of the OS to change their rules.  

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