Sonos Updates New App to Reintroduce Local Music Library Playback, Other Features

Sonos has released an update to its new app that reintroduces some missing features. The new app has been widely criticized for dropping popular features, connectivity issues, and usability problems.

The company announced the update in a post on X:

We've heard your feedback and are moving quickly to improve your app experience. Our latest update reintroduces local music library playback, enhanced VoiceOver and TalkBack support, and more. You can find more details about the recent update on Sonos Support.


Sonos also shared a support document detailing the update and providing a rough outline of when additional changes can be expected.

Many of you have shared valuable feedback on both the improvements that have made your experience better, as well as the areas where we fell short. We are listening to all of your comments and working to address them as quickly as possible. Over the coming weeks, we will reintroduce the below features, while fixing bugs and performance issues. Thank you for your engagement and we look forward to building upon this first step to create a listening experience that meets everyone's needs.

Available now
● VoiceOver on iOS now properly interacts with individual elements of the Sonos app's home screen - and now adds improved VoiceOver support for allowing for navigating and controlling the Now Playing Screen, System View, Output Selector, Queue, Volume Sliders, and Add Product
● Improved TalkBack support for the Now Playing Screen, System View, and Add Product
● Improved Local Music Library playback of folders
● Adding and editing alarms with the ability to Search for content

Coming soon
● Continued improvements to navigation for visually-impaired customers: mid-June
● Adding to queue and playing next: early June
● Sleep timer: mid-June
● Use the Sonos app for macOS or Windows or Sonos Voice Control to set sleep timers today.
● Local music library search and playback: mid-June
● Update WiFi settings: mid-June
● Snooze alarms: TBD


You can download Sonos from the App Store for free.

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