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Mike H
Mike H
Retired Sonos Staff
January 27, 2026
News

📲 The new Sonos App & Player Updates for late-January are Now Available! 🔊

Hey everyone!

This morning, the team is deploying an update to both the Sonos app and player firmware. This release introduces a long-requested feature and several stability fixes to keep your system running smoothly. As always, if you’d like to look at previous updates check out our App Release Notes here, as well as our System (Player) Release Notes here.

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 - 81.00.52

Android - 81.00.51

  • Save Queue as Playlist: You can now save your current queue as a playlist, making it easy to revisit your favorite listening moments anytime.

  • Fixed issue with slider size not changing when font set larger than medium

Player Update

  • Security Improvements

  • Player Stability Fixes

Release Notes & Support

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

Questions or feedback? Let us know in the comments below! Our team is listening and we appreciate your input as we continue to improve the Sonos experience.

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    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    February 3, 2026

    When it is the correct action to take, yes. No reason to retype the same thing, over and over. 

    Bruce
      Ian_S
      Prodigy III
      February 4, 2026

      I have done the power down route ​@Airgetlam  suggested but no difference. This happened immediately after a controlled, manual, app update (several days after the firmware) and is happening, on and off, still. No other changes... at all!

      I’d poke around your network gear for anything that looks like IGMP. Especially if you have any managed switches connected anywhere. 

        Michael.B
        Enthusiast II
        February 4, 2026

        When it is the correct action to take, yes. No reason to retype the same thing, over and over. 

        I like the term ‘discuss’ in these looping canned responses. 😎
        Not ‘resolve’, not ‘get help’. Just discuss.
        All one needs to know about Sonos Support. :)

         

          User117655
          User117655
          Prodigy II
          February 4, 2026

          I’d poke around your network gear for anything that looks like IGMP. Especially if you have any managed switches connected anywhere. 

          Thanks for the tip...

          However as of this morning the issue, in the same way it arrived, seems to have melted away into the ether. 

          I have double checked my network anyway and IGMP is disabled (as I thought). No subnets or VLANs in the equation either... but it seems to be gone now anyway so 🤷🏼‍♂️

           

          Ian_S
          Prodigy III
          February 4, 2026

          I’d poke around your network gear for anything that looks like IGMP. Especially if you have any managed switches connected anywhere. 

          Thanks for the tip...

          However as of this morning the issue, in the same way it arrived, seems to have melted away into the ether. 

          I have double checked my network anyway and IGMP is disabled (as I thought). No subnets or VLANs in the equation either... but it seems to be gone now anyway so 🤷🏼‍♂️

          My understanding, and from what I’ve seen in Wireshark, is that Sonos uses IGMP, so trying to get your head around what you have there and how it should be configured might be worthwhile. 

          User117655
          User117655
          Prodigy II
          February 4, 2026

          My understanding, and from what I’ve seen in Wireshark, is that Sonos uses IGMP, so trying to get your head around what you have there and how it should be configured might be worthwhile. 

          👌 actually been doing that since my last post and think I might have to have a bit of an exploratory play with my settings at some point. For the timebeing though, since my system is now and historically has been very stable without it enabled, I am inclined to leave it how it is... for the moment at least 😁

          MarqsM
          Lyricist III
          February 4, 2026

          (...) ​@MarqsM have you tried quitting and restarting the app after doing a 'successful' system find (i.e. swipe up the app and relaunch it) rather than waiting? For me this is successful with app loading the system OK on the restart… (...)

          Yes, that is what I did. It worked 2 days ago, it didn’t work yesterday. But this was not immediate - I had to restar the app a couple of times, confirm to “join the system” until it eventually worked.

          I did restart the access point, all the switches and all Sonos devices. Not that it did any difference. Which is not surprising since before the latest update I had not experienced such issue and nothing has changed in my network configuration. 

           

          Alan_1
          Lyricist III
          February 8, 2026

          Just done the latest update and now cannot play anything from Plex. I can see all my music and can add to the queue, but when I attempt to play I get an error message saying the track is not available in Plex, repeatedly working down the queue until it times out. Nothing has changed in Plex and all was working fine this morning.  Have tried re authorising Plex and restarted everything, but no joy. Plex is my main service so hopefully this is just a temporary glitch. 
           

          Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 
           

           

            Alan_1
            Lyricist III
            February 9, 2026

            Just done the latest update and now cannot play anything from Plex. I can see all my music and can add to the queue, but when I attempt to play I get an error message saying the track is not available in Plex, repeatedly working down the queue until it times out. Nothing has changed in Plex and all was working fine this morning.  Have tried re authorising Plex and restarted everything, but no joy. Plex is my main service so hopefully this is just a temporary glitch. 
             

            Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 
             

             

            Please ignore the above, rebooted my NAS and reconnected Plex and all seems to be working again. Apologies for assuming this was a Sonos issue, when it appears to be a fault elsewhere in my network.

              Stanley_4
              Stanley_4
              Grand Maestro
              February 9, 2026

              Updates often confuse Sonos as do power cycles. Aggravating but not serious as the problem usually passes in a day or so. You can usually speed the clearing by doing a refresh of your network. Power down all Sonos Reboot router and power up the Sonos and things should be back to working.

              If it happens often you can assign static/reserved addresses to all Sonos and do a refresh to lock them in.

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