{"id":642807,"date":"2026-06-17T03:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642807\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T03:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:31:32","slug":"the-sonos-app-is-getting-a-major-refresh-this-week-heres-whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642807\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sonos app is getting a major refresh this week \u2013 here’s what’s new"},"content":{"rendered":"

At last, Sonos<\/a> is making some real progress fixing its mobile app. A major refresh is due this week, which should make it a lot more intuitive to use.<\/p>\n

If you’re late to the party, let us fill you in.<\/p>\n

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Back in April 2024, Sonos redesigned its app<\/a> to coincide with the launch of the Ace<\/a>, its first pair of wireless headphones. It was a disaster \u2013 the new app was buggy, and lacked a lot of the old one’s features. (It didn’t help that the headphones weren’t much cop either.)<\/p>\n

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Since then Sonos has been on a mission to restore the app and win back customer trust. This week’s refresh could go some way to doing so.<\/p>\n

The improvements are aimed at making the app easier to use. It’s “Not a new app, but a new way of navigating Sonos inside the app you already have,” CEO Tom Conrad wrote on Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From spending “hundreds of hours” watching people use the Sonos app, his team found out what the sticking points are: too many content cards, swipe-up gestures to switch speaker orientation, close boxes in place of back buttons, and custom interface elements that feel out of place on an iOS<\/a> or Android device.<\/p>\n

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We can look forward to more straightforward navigation, with three tabs (Home, System, Search) replacing the hidden gestures and content cards on both iOS and Android. There’s a new volume interface, a “core mechanism that is easier to grab and fine tune” along with buttons to press to alter it and a new way of synchronising it across a group of rooms.<\/p>\n

You’ll get more control over how your players are listed and displayed, and there are dozens of smaller fixes like the ability to swipe to delete a track in a playlist, and a refreshed Now Playing screen.<\/p>\n

The update will roll out to beta testers this week (you can sign up here<\/a>), but they will have to enable it from within the settings menu. Even once it’s rolled out wider, it will only be available as an opt-in toggle, so you can turn it off if you don’t like it. Sonos will continue to polish it before making it the default.<\/p>\n

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Conrad says this is the way Sonos will work from now on, as “this is the beginning of a different way of working here at Sonos, where what gets built, and in what order, is shaped by the conversations here and with all our customers.”<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s learned from its mistakes after all.<\/p>\n

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