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Sonos heard the music: VoiceOver improvements, local playback and more, back to new app

Posted on by darion

This month, Sonos released a brand new version of its app. It also received a lot of criticism from users about missing features, broken VoiceOver for visually impaired users, and more. Now the company has admitted to some of the problems and has launched the latest update with fixes.

Initially, Sonos responded to criticism about the revamped app by saying it took “courage” to create it.

But apart from the new user interface that many found unattractive and many missing features, there was also a big problem in the form of broken VoiceOver support for blind and visually impaired users.

Fortunately, Sonos responded quickly and rolled out an update on May 14 that brought back features such as alarms, support for VoiceOver working with individual app elements, and more bug fixes.

Today, Sonos took to social media to announce that it has rolled out another update with further improvements to VoiceOver and TalkBack, has restored local music library playback, and, most importantly, confirmed that it has “heard your feedback and is working quickly to improve your app experience.” “

Full release notes can be found on the Sonos website (also below), and the latest version of iOS is available in the App Store.

Since Sonos is open to user feedback and making rapid improvements, we’ll likely see more releases to restore further functionality soon.

Sonos 80.01.11 release notes for iOS:

In this update:

  • Support for the all-new Sonos Roam 2.
  • Improved VoiceOver support, allowing easier navigation and control in the Now Playing screen, system view, output selector, queue, volume sliders, and adding a product.
  • Improved TalkBack support for the Now Playing screen, system view, and adding a product.
  • Improved playback of folders in the local music library.
  • Added the ability to search for content for use with the alarm.
  • Improved system connectivity for Boost and portable products in sleep mode.
  • Fixed Add Product issues that resulted in incomplete registration, having to log in again, or being unable to confirm your product PIN.
  • Fixed an issue with enabling surround sound and subwoofer.
  • Fixed an issue where Trueplay was blocked if the input source was a TV.
  • Fixed an issue with asking for local network permissions.

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