Sleep timer returns to Sonos app as enhancements trickle in
You’ll be forgiven when you’re a Sonos fan who retains checking a number of instances a day for app updates (rely us amongst that group). And in the present day’s day to have that behavior, as one other replace has returned one lacking function and improved others.
The sleep timer has returned to the revamped Sonos app. And whereas all perhaps isn’t fairly proper within the Sonos world, it’s positively beginning to look a bit extra prefer it did earlier than the massive May update that got here forward of the Sonos Ace headphones — and both disappeared or broke plenty of different issues within the course of.
As irritating because the previous few weeks have been for these of us who simply need to use our wi-fi speaker setup and don’t actually care an excessive amount of about newfangled headphones, at the very least Sonos has been pretty clear about what’s been broken and what’s being mounted. Sonos workers have been keeping up with the app update timeline on Reddit, and that thread is in sync with the changelog on the app itself.
In addition to the return of the sleep timer, different enhancements this time round embody:
- Better setup, Bluetooth discovery, and Wi-Fi settings. (You’ll word it’s a must to approve just a few issues after this replace, virtually prefer it’s a contemporary set up.)
- Improved playback settings, with “Play next” and “add to end of queue” trying higher
- A mute button on iOS
- Improved Trueplay on iOS
- Distance settings added for residence theater encompass audio system
- Better navigation cues for these with visible impairments
- Better VoiceOver assist for pop-up messages on iOS
Sonos additionally has been maintaining with a “coming soon” checklist of enhancements. Slated for later this month are mute and quantity numbers on the playback controls, extra accessibility enhancements for visible impairments, and native music library search and playback.
