Retired Sonos Staff

Now Available, the New Sonos App

Introducing Navigation with Tabs:

The Sonos app now has five tabs visible at the bottom when not in the full playing screen. The tabs are My Sonos, Browse, Rooms, Search, and More. See here:

Now your most used options are available with just one click, and Now Playing is always just one tap away.

My Sonos
We’ve consolidated all your personally curated Sonos Playlists, music service playlists, and Sonos Favorites into one, easy to use page on the Sonos app. You can edit fields to move around the order, or delete them entirely. You can now have up to 40 favorites total, up from 32.

Browse
Browsing your music is even easier as it no longer hides your other options. You can browse and move to different rooms all while keeping your place in the browsing menu. There’s also a dock on the bottom of the app that gives you easy access to the navigation tabs. You can swipe it up to reveal it at any time, then back down. We’ve separated browsing your music and the menu for Settings, so it’s even easier to find what you’re looking for.

Rooms
The menu starts highlighted on the active room, featured right on the app so that it’s even easier to see what’s playing in each room. There’s now an icon on that screen to show you where the music is coming from too. That includes if it was started by Alexa. The active room has a Group button to have it add others to the party.

Search
It hasn’t changed, just moved to an easy to find spot.

More...
All the settings and options are in here. You can add services, make alarms, get some help, and access all your settings. We think this will make it a lot easier to find what you’re looking for. And speaking of settings…

Explicit Language Filtering

Within Settings > Parental Controls, you can set a system-wide setting to filter songs with explicit content. Right now, this is working for Apple Music, and we’re hoping to add it for more services soon. Once the setting is on, Apple Music songs with the explicit tag will no longer play on your system.

Long Press to Group

Making it even easier to play music. With 8.0, you can press and hold the Play/Pause button (or mute on older players) to have your player join the most recently active player as a group. First, you have to start playing music on a player, (it can be from an alarm or any other source), and then just hold the button for a few seconds on another player. That second player will join the first one’s group and start playing the same music in sync.

There's another function of the long press, and that's being able to move recently stopped music to another room. First, stop playing music in any of your rooms. Then, press and hold the play/pause on another player for a few seconds. (Make sure that you don't start playing music anywhere else.) The queue or source will move to the unit you held the button for and start playing. The players won't group together and any existing queue will get whiped out in place of the new one.

iOS 11 and Android O Support

Lastly, version 8.0 has support for the latest operating systems from Android and iOS. This includes iOS 11 support for Trueplay on Sonos. Trueplay isn’t available on Android at this time.

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sb_5150

Lyricist I

I love my Sonos, but I seriously hate the interface of the new App.
Surely this isn't a sneaky ploy to make everyone want to buy new voice controlled P1 because the new Controller App's UI so clunky, unintuitive and so darn white you want to look away whenever you see it?
It's time to admit you made a mistake, releasing an early Beta version into Production.
We will forgive you.
Now let us unhappy folk download the old version back on our iPhones(and android devices too), whilst you fix up this mess.
Come on Sonos, listen to the growing hoard of very unhappy customers 😞

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Steve32789

Lyricist I

Really dislike this new version, hard to change rooms, give us the option on rolling back

Guy_19

Enthusiast II

App seems an improvement on the last, but will burn my eyes out when listening in the dark / subdued light. Please can we have a dark mode back?

This is essential - the Rooms view is horrible now, with no line between rooms and the retina-burning whiteness. OLED screens like black too, and so do batteries. The iPhone X will be out soon and apple will be able to take credit for inventing OLED 😉

7 rooms: One SL Stereo Pair, One SL x 2, Move, Play:5 Gen2 & Port into Arcam AVR with AE floorstanders, Port into Denon microsystem.

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amun

Really dislike this new version, hard to change rooms, give us the option on rolling back

They won't (or can't) do it - they're in the 'death or glory' camp of software development, so can only 'move forward'.

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TheHellers

Enthusiast I

We were on the beta. I complained about all the white on those forums and said I would probably get rid of my Sonos system if it wasn't changed. I got jumped on for saying that and that it was a beta and they'd probably fix that. Using the app outside at night really hurt my eyes. Left the beta since the app was unusable to me with all that bright white. Three months later, it's still the same. But they don't care. Look at this message board, it's all white background. That's what is in vogue. Someday when all the devs are older they will realize that blaring white screens were not good for their eyes all those years. Hopefully I can keep using the old app and that they let us use a dark them. Otherwise, I don't know. (I have other complaints about the app but like others said I'd probably get used to the UI after a while) Steve

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southern gal

Chromatic Producer I

Lets try this...

like this reply if

1 you want the choice of WHITE or DARK
2 you want the icons size to change back to original size (smaller and thus be able to fit more on a view)

perhaps this will show how many of us actually do not like the changes (and were not part of the beta)

Southern Gal

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longtalltexan

Lyricist I

Changing rooms is very buggy for me. Scenario:
1. playing music in roomA, want to change to roomB
2. touch red "roomA" at bottom of screen, this brings up the room-chooser
3. deselect roomA, select roomB, hit "done" (have also tried select-first-deselect-second...no better)
4. returns to main screen with roomA still selected
5. lather, rinse, repeat until Sonos finally understands that I want roomB (typically 3-4 reps will do it)
6. @#$%^&!
This problem exists both on my iPhone (ios11) and an older iPad (ios10.3.3) so it is not os-specific. Please fix ASAP! Changing rooms has to be one of the most basic use-cases for Sonos...
...and yes, like most others, I find the all-white UI glaringly bad (pun fully intended 🙂

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sjw

Local Superstar

I have had that lots in the beta too.
Often you think you have changed room but end up starting/stopping music in other rooms.
Closing and re-opening the app sorts it.

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markerussell

Lyricist I

Controller for MAC greatly broken. Cannot start and top music easily.

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kncnsm

Lyricist I

Personally, the New UI is not as intuitive as the previous version. I'm using it on my Samsung Galaxy 8" table. Took a couple times to navigate. 😞 Will have to keep testing but feeling a little disappointed with UX.

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Introducing Navigation with Tabs:

Explicit Language Filtering

Long Press to Group

iOS 11 and Android O Support

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