Navigating the Sonos App

The home screen is the biggest change in the redesign. Your home’s name sits in the top-left — tap it any time to see every room. The “Now Playing” bar stays pinned to the bottom, and the scrollable space in the middle is where you find something to play.

The center of the home screen is built around music discovery. Your services line up across the top so you can browse by service, and your most-played items sit just below. Keep scrolling and it surfaces the playlists, artists, and stations you return to most.

The search bar now looks across every connected service at once, so you can find an exact song, artist, or playlist without picking the service first.

There are two ways to reach your rooms. The quickest is to tap your home’s name in the top-left of the home screen. You can also swipe up on the “Now Playing” bar — just start the swipe from the bar itself, because beginning too low can close the app instead.

Volume lives in the “Now Playing” bar at the bottom of the screen. Grab the slider any time to set the level for the room you’re listening in.

To play the same music in more than one room, tap the grouping icon — you’ll find it in the “Now Playing” bar, or at the bottom of the full “Now Playing” screen — and add the rooms you want to include.

When several rooms are playing together, press and hold the volume slider to reveal an individual slider for each room — so the kitchen can sit lower than the great room while everything stays in sync.

From the “Now Playing” view, tap the three dots in the bottom-right, then choose “Sleep Timer” and pick how long you’d like playback to continue. The music fades out on its own when the timer runs out.