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The people who keep saying "chill, this is no big deal" have no idea that for many use cases, things have gotten dramatically worse.  I'm not a big alarm/sleep timer user, but understand that anyone who DOES depend on that would be HUGELY pissed.  And that's a BASIC feature.

The queue management is what gets me most.  That's BASIC functionality and should be table stakes in The Year of Our Lord 2024. 

I fear the writing is on the wall that local music libraries are an endangered species, and I'm among the dinos looking around confused.  Aside from not being able to search my local library, the fact that I now need to scroll the entire list vs having the letters pop up so I can get to "W" when I want to listen to Wilco is a huge pain in the ass.  And the scrolling is slow and hiccups constantly as it pauses to load more data.  Given that local storage was one of the reasons Sonos deprecated some of the old gear a couple years back, the fact that nothing is cached within my system is just not acceptable. 

I have somewhere north of 20 Sonos speakers and I've been with them over a decade.  I've been a beta tester in the past.  This is the first time I've been truly disappointed with them.  I trust they'll make it better in the long run, but we shouldn't be talking "months" as the time horizon.  It needs to be "weeks" at the worst. 

 I'm not going to go waving my hands and threatening to sell everything I have; I have Roon as my backup plan and they support Sonos better than Sonos does now for local libraries.  I guess if Sonos becomes "streaming only" which is entirely plausible given the emphasis on Atmos and the fact that any Atmos listening requires a subscription plan with somebody, I'll survive, but I am disappointed.  I guess when I'm out of places to put more Sonos, the threat to quit buying more is an empty one, but, man, what a downer.  I had them up there with Apple as one to depend on.  We'll see if that faith is merited in the coming weeks.

Hi,

My iPhone was pickpocketed in LA 2 weeks ago and it is now in China. I've already turned on the Lock iPhone setting and clicked erased all data. Is that good enough to secure myself? I don't want anybody getting into my bank or gaining other private information that was on my old iPhone. Should I remove the device or just keep it in a locked and erased state?

As the title says. This app update is so bad, that my family has kicked me out of the house and I’m living in my car with 10k worth of sonos gear. I tried to set an alarm but the feature was removed so I lost my job! My life was actually pretty perfect up until this point. Why would you do this to me sonos?! I I’ve tried re booting my system but nothing.

Edit: I made this post because while I understand the disappointment, I felt the anger and outrage was a bit over the top. Im glad I did it because your responses are cracking me up!

No disrespect to the people who are negatively affected by this…just trying to change the mood a little.

I’ve had sonos a long time so I’m used to disappointment. Back in the days of the hard button controllers(pre apps) sonos was so fast and intuitive you could hand the controller to someone who never used it and they could just figure it out. I knew this day would come when they went public. Kinda expected this. With time it will get better and it’s all going to be ok!

Update: you guys are killing me!😂

Honestly i don’t know how can we use these tooo muchh power

I can't search my library.

I'm trying to listen to classic Albini albums and SONOS is IN MY WAY.

You couldn't even put in a scroll handle for the library? To hell with you. It's not even going to be a possibility for me to buy any more Sonos products until this is fixed, and even then, you've crossed a line that will never allow me to see Sonos the same way.

YOU MESSED UP. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. NOW.

Edit: I rolled it back myself and disabled auto-update. THANK YOU, REDDIT!

It seems like a petty thing Apple would do, stopping people from removing a widget or not allowing them to have free access to make their phone look however they want, I was really surprised when I saw this on my pixel 6 pro (It's my first time using a pixel phone).

What reason (if any) would there be to do this?