Sonos announces redesigned app that puts everything on your homescreen

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Today, Sonos is officially introducing the redesigned mobile app that I showed you earlier this month. It’ll rotation retired for some Android and iOS connected May 7th, but the company’s desktop apps aren’t coming on for the ride: Sonos volition discontinue its controller apps for Windows and macOS successful the adjacent future. Taking their spot is simply a caller web app that volition let you to power and entree your Sonos speakers from anyplace — not conscionable erstwhile you’re location connected Wi-Fi.

But for now, let’s get backmost to the smartphone app. It’s been rebuilt from the crushed up to beryllium much reliable. Sonos’ cardinal extremity was making everything consciousness faster and getting you wherever you privation to beryllium without relying connected a tabbed navigation bar. Now, everything is connected the homescreen, and you tin customize the layout to enactment your favourite playlists up top. Want your line-in audio root positioned higher than everything else? You tin bash that, too. There’s a persistent hunt barroom astatine the bottom, truthful uncovering euphony is ever conscionable a azygous pat away.

Image: Sonos The app has been rebuilt to prioritize show and reliability.

Accessing your speakers is arsenic elemental arsenic swiping up from the mini subordinate astatine the bottommost of the app. From there, you’ll spot a strategy overview wherever you tin set volume, radical products, and truthful on. If you request to excavation deeper, there’s a shortcut to the settings paper successful the upper-right country of the homescreen.

The hunt acquisition is mostly the same, though you tin present acceptable a preferred euphony work that volition beryllium ranked astatine the apical of results. Unfortunately for Apple Music users, Sonos inactive isn’t labeling spatial audio tracks successful hunt results; you won’t spot that badge until you commencement playing something.

Image: Sonos The caller Sonos web app volition besides beryllium disposable connected May 7th.

So far, I’ve lone seen a little demo of the app successful action, truthful we’ll person to hold until May 7th to larn whether determination are immoderate missing features oregon mislaid functionality compared to the existent version. Nothing frustrates Sonos fans much than that benignant of thing, truthful hopefully determination won’t beryllium galore holes to plug. I’m looking guardant to investigating retired the web app and seeing however good Sonos devices tin beryllium controlled from afar; that convenience was antecedently exclusive to the company’s Sonos Pro subscription service. The desktop apps were already receiving small attraction arsenic is, truthful this is astir apt for the best.

As you mightiness imagine, Sonos CEO Patrick Spence seems precise excited astir the caller mobile app. “We felt present was the clip to reimagine our app experience,” helium said successful a property release. “After thorough improvement and testing, we are assured this redesigned app is easier, faster and better. It erstwhile again raises the barroom for the location euphony listening experience, and sets up our quality to grow into caller categories and experiences.”

The caller Sonos app volition rotation retired arsenic an update to that S2 bundle and enactment each the aforesaid products.