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

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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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Local Superstar
April 24, 2024

I like it! 

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Marco.BAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
April 24, 2024

Thanks.  To be clear then, after updating from S2 to the new version (I'm not calling it an upgrade), users can still play from a local library but will have no ability whatsoever to search from it?

For now that is correct. There is an alternative though. You can use Plex, most NAS also support it. Universal Search does support Plex.

April 24, 2024

Will the home screen customisation be user or device (app instance) specific or will it continue to be shared across all apps connected to the same Sonos system?

My biggest annoyance with the existing app is whenever people add something to the “My Sonos” section of the app (e.g. a station, show, playlist, album etc) it appears in the My Sonos section for everyone in the household. I really with Sonos would support user profiles for the My Sonos section (app customisation). Is this something that’s coming in the new app? 

 

Marco.BAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
April 24, 2024

Will the home screen customisation be user or device (app instance) specific or will it continue to be shared across all apps connected to the same Sonos system?

My biggest annoyance with the existing app is whenever people add something to the “My Sonos” section of the app (e.g. a station, show, playlist, album etc) it appears in the My Sonos section for everyone in the household. I really with Sonos would support user profiles for the My Sonos section (app customisation). Is this something that’s coming in the new app? 

 

The customization will be device specific. So if you are using multiple mobile devices with the app, each will have it’s own customized home screen.

April 24, 2024

Just curious since I am on and will stay on S1; for streaming I use the Spotify native app anyway so it does not matter to me what's in this one, but is this upgrade an effort to keep up the UI experience with the joneses or is it to take it to be an experience that no streaming service offers today?

April 24, 2024

The customization will be device specific. So if you are using multiple mobile devices with the app, each will have it’s own customized home screen.

Thanks. Does this mean the actual favourites (stations/albums/playlists etc) will now be device (app) specific? Or does it mean only the way they are organised on the home screen will be device specific with the actual favourites still shared across the system?

Marco.BAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
April 24, 2024

Just curious since I am on and will stay on S1; for streaming I use the Spotify native app anyway so it does not matter to me what's in this one, but is this upgrade an effort to keep up the UI experience with the joneses or is it to take it to be an experience that no streaming service offers today?

The S2 app was not updated for a long time. Also many people find it inconvenient to use it. So you could say that a complete overhaul was overdue.

Marco.BAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
April 24, 2024

The customization will be device specific. So if you are using multiple mobile devices with the app, each will have it’s own customized home screen.

Thanks. Does this mean the actual favourites (stations/albums/playlists etc) will now be device (app) specific? Or does it mean only the way they are organised on the home screen will be device specific with the actual favourites still shared across the system?

It refers to the way the home screen is organized. Sonos favorites for example are saved on the players and will show the same favorites for all apps connected with the system.

April 24, 2024

It refers to the way the home screen is organized. Sonos favorites for example are saved on the players and will show the same favorites for all apps connected with the system.

OK thanks. It doesn’t really sound like a change that will interest me. What I’d like is to have user-specific favourites (e.g. through user profiles) rather than a single set of system-level favourites shared by everyone. Please consider adding this.

April 24, 2024

Thanks.  To be clear then, after updating from S2 to the new version (I'm not calling it an upgrade), users can still play from a local library but will have no ability whatsoever to search from it?

For now that is correct. There is an alternative though. You can use Plex, most NAS also support it. Universal Search does support Plex.

What a downgrade… WHY? What is the point of removing local search???