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April 23, 2024
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The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

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  • April 23, 2024
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The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

Today we are introducing the most extensive app redesign ever, creating an unprecedented streaming experience that allows listeners to organize their favorite playlists, stations, albums and more from over 100 services on one customizable Home screen.

 

Home Screen

The new Home screen provides faster access to Sonos system controls with one easy swipe up, making tab to tab jumping a thing of the past. As a leader in sound experience that’s focused on creating a better way to listen, Sonos intentionally redesigned the app on a modern software platform for an easier, faster and better experience that can support more rapid innovation.

 

The reimagined app supports all existing S2 products and will be available globally through a software update for the S2 mobile app.

 

100+ streaming services, one Home screen

The redesigned Sonos app prioritizes a listening experience that’s human - allowing you to bring your true favorites front and center and giving you more control to make your streaming experience your own.

 

  • Get into your music (and off the app) faster: No need to tap between tabs — the new Home screen serves up all your favorite content and controls, all in one place. Quickly jump back into your recently played, browse libraries and recommendations from your preferred services, and fill your home with music and all the sounds you love.
  • Customize and curate: Enjoy unparalleled curation by designing your Home screen to reflect how you listen. Pin rows of your favorite content and services; then move, edit, or rearrange them to your liking.
  • Search every streaming library: Look for an artist, song, podcast, or audiobook across all your preferred streaming apps at once via an easy-to-use search bar that’s always available right on your Home screen.
  • Elevated system control: Swipe up from the bottom of your Home screen to seamlessly control your entire system and access a visual overview of what’s playing on each of your products, quickly group speakers, and dial in on the perfect volume from anywhere in the app. 

 

Accessible from any modern web browser, a brand new web app allows listeners the same seamless system control as the mobile app.

 

The new Web App

The Web App will be available alongside the redesigned mobile app on May 7, 2024.

 

Want to find out more about the new Sonos App? Have a look at the Info Hub section of the community for a complete rundown of the new user interface.

 

Here you can find the full press release. 

 

 

 

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1674 replies

Bumper
May 19, 2024

Well as you have taken away the alarm system? How do I cancel the alarms as still going off in the morning which is ok for now but once we go away could be a problem 🤔

I’m assuming you have perhaps been ‘out of town’. The Alarm features were put back in the Sonos App in the last App update.

 

 

Or maybe because the app is a buggy POS they may be one of the many unlucky who have not had the alarms come back. 
 

 

Enthusiast I
May 19, 2024

With the updated mobile app, I seem to have lost the ability to play an album rather than individual items. I listen to classical music and stream from IDAGIO. If I now select an album, I can see all the tracks, but I don’t see a Play All. I have to select one track at a time to add to the queue, which is tedious for a symphony with four movements, but trying to listen to an opera with, say, 77 “songs” is ridiculous! I can play an album from my computer for the time being, but the mobile (iOS) app is completely useless. Very disappointed the new S2 was released in this state.

Contributor I
May 19, 2024

Hello???

Is there anyone at Sonos who ever reads the reviews of the new app??  They are uniformly horrible and, based on my personal experience, completely accurate.

How do you people run a company that produces such abysmal software that is required to operate your extremely expensive speakers and hardware?  How long do you expect consumers to continue to tolerate this situation before you’re run out of business?

They should at LEAST acknowlegde the new app is a bug fest and they are working on fixing it and we can expect a fix in X days…. this is crazy, my system is unusable… and then an hour later something random will play.  Really burned any good will I had with Sonos.  So frustrated.  How can anyone release an app without obviously testing it?

Ken_Griffiths
May 19, 2024

Hello???

Is there anyone at Sonos who ever reads the reviews of the new app??  They are uniformly horrible and, based on my personal experience, completely accurate.

How do you people run a company that produces such abysmal software that is required to operate your extremely expensive speakers and hardware?  How long do you expect consumers to continue to tolerate this situation before you’re run out of business?

They should at LEAST acknowlegde the new app is a bug fest and they are working on fixing it and we can expect a fix in X days…. this is crazy, my system is unusable… and then an hour later something random will play.  Really burned any good will I had with Sonos.  So frustrated.  How can anyone release an app without obviously testing it?

It’s perhaps no comfort for some, but Sonos have put out this, to try to show that work is ongoing with the new Sonos App…

https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/article/the-new-sonos-app-and-future-feature-updates

Trending Lyricist I
May 19, 2024

It’s out and it’s public, how bad $ono$ messed up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/17/sonos-new-app-update-problems/

 

Avid Contributor I
May 19, 2024

It’s out and it’s public, how bad $ono$ messed up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/17/sonos-new-app-update-problems/

 

Wont let me read it without a sub what kinda bs is that, i can pretty much guess what it says like, app is uber w**k right now and theres probably going to be features locked behind a subscription.

Ken_Griffiths
May 19, 2024

It’s out and it’s public, how bad $ono$ messed up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/17/sonos-new-app-update-problems/

 

Wont let me read it without a sub what kinda bs is that, i can pretty much guess what it says like, app is uber w**k right now and theres probably going to be features locked behind a subscription.

Yeah same for me too - the Washington Post wants a subscription sign-up to let me read the article. I think I’ll pass on that.

Lyricist I
May 19, 2024

I'm sorry, to release an update which basically bricks an entire system is not good at all.

was working fine until I updated on iOS now it won't play, will play then stops, won't add a zone, really buggy and laggy, takes ages to connect to the the streaming service. crashes. FFS, my system has 3 ones, a beam, 2 connects and 3 ports in it, so its not small….. now I'm having to resort to the old-fashioned music sources, and I've cracked out the vinyl..

GET IT FIXED before we all chuck then through the window!!

Trending Lyricist I
May 19, 2024

Agree with most -- new app is horrible, slow, errors (“not connected”, non-intuitive, in short, a big step backward; why would i want to upgrade the hardware when this appears so weak

Avid Contributor I
May 19, 2024

Agree with most -- new app is horrible, slow, errors (“not connected”, non-intuitive, in short, a big step backward; why would i want to upgrade the hardware when this appears so weak

Dont upgrade your hardware, just go buy there headphones 😁