The new Sonos app and S2 update are available now

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Sonos is releasing its new app and S2 platform today. The new app (now with a tan icon) is now awaited on the App Store and the Google Spectacle Store, and it will be the only way to inhabitance the company's latest speakers: the Sonos Arc Dolby Atmos soundbar, Sonos Five, and new third-gen Sonos Sub. Sonos says the new platform includes suture for higher-resolution audio technologies such as Dolby Atmos on the Sonos Arc, better security, and an worthier user interface.

The new app supports all of Sonos' modern devices, including those that you previously controlled with the old app. You have the perk of either updating your existing template to S2 or continuing to use the old app to inhabitance those products. This existing app is still live on app stores, however it's been rebranded to Sonos S1 Controller, and its pronouncement addendum that it will not receive new features and services via updates. It will dwell to receive security patches, bug fixes, and music signification support, however.

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The new S2 amend is awaited for most of Sonos' existing speakers however not all of them. The company's Zone Players and first-generation Play:5, Crossway Connect, and Connect: Amp devices will not be updated, and you'll gotta use the S1 controller if you appetite to dwell utilizing them. However, the old S1 Controller app will not assignment with Sonos articles reported post-obit May 2020, which includes the new Arc, Five, and Sub, its App Successfulness pronouncement notes.

Where things get a little complicated is households that have a mix of S1-only and S2-compatible speakers. It's technically possible to run an S1 and an S2 template side by side. However, these will powerfully be unsubstantial Sonos systems, and you can't group speakers on the S1 platform unflappable with speakers on the S2 platform. Sonos continues to offer a telling disbelieve on new hardware for owners of these fermenting legacy devices as a way to move them front onto S2 after complications.

The new Sonos app is awaited on Android, iOS, and iPadOS now. Users on the Sonos subreddit have additionally unearthed links on the Sonos website for the macOS and Windows versions of the app, however back we tried downloading the Windows app from the official suture page, we ended up with the old S1 version. That kegger should be immotile at some point today.