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What users asked for, and what has shipped.

Somos is built in the open, shaped directly by what its users ask for. There is no fixed roadmap and no promised dates — what gets built next is whatever users ask for most. Your suggestions are important, so please add yours to our list in the form below.

Shipped — in the app now, or in the beta

✅ Support for all rooms, not just home theater — build 25 · July 8
✅ Stereo-pair balance slider — build 26 · July 10
✅ Single & mismatched surround speakers allowed — build 28 · July 12
✅ Surround & subwoofer level control — early July
✅ Music controls on the Lock Screen — build 29.3 · July 16
✅ Surround on/off toggle — build 31 · July 20
✅ Create stereo pairs in Somos — build 31 · July 20
✅ Faster, more reliable surround & fronts setup — build 31 · July 20
✅ Sliders apply live while you drag (the “volume delay” reports) — build 32 · July 21
✅ Max volume limit per room — build 32 · July 21 · since removed
✅ Music Playback (Ambient/Full) surround toggle — build 32 · July 21
✅ S1 + S2 split-system support — rebuilt on Sonos household identity · build 32
✅ Speech Boost / dialogue enhancement reports and sets correctly on Arc-class bars — build 35.7 · beta · September
✅ Night Sound and Speech Boost from the Lock Screen on older soundbars — build 35.7 · beta · September
✅ A second Sub, including two early-generation Subs — build 34 · shipped · August
✅ Presets save the volume, not just the sound settings — build 34 · shipped · August
✅ Presets for music-only rooms, not just rooms with a soundbar — build 34 · shipped · August
✅ Mute straight from the volume card — build 34 · shipped · August
✅ Favourite groups on the bottom bar — build 34 · shipped · August
✅ Shuffle beside Play on the music page, and Play no longer turns your Repeat off — build 34 · shipped · August
✅ Renaming a room can no longer wipe its icon if the speaker is slow to answer — build 35.7 · beta · September
✅ Front-speaker information corrected — the Arc Ultra keeps its height channels — build 35.7 · beta · September
✅ An adjustable sub crossover on any speaker that reports one — build 35.3 · beta · September
✅ Crossover no longer resets to 0 Hz after a relaunch — build 35.7 · beta · September
✅ Find-speaker tone — flash the light and play a tone to identify a speaker — build 35.7 · beta · September
✅ Music services inside Somos — sign in to Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio and Bandcamp from the Music sheet, plus Apple Music linked in the Sonos app — build 36 · beta · September
✅ The group volume slider on every room in a group, not just the one you grouped from — build 36.1.1 · beta · September
✅ Every room within reach at the bottom of the screen: an optional room wheel in place of the tabs — build 36.1.1 · beta · September
✅ The Full / Ambient switch flipped, so Full is on the right — build 36.1.1 · beta · September
✅ Grouping and saved groups easier to find: a Group button on every room page and a Saved Groups tab on the bottom bar — build 36.1.1 · beta · September
✅ Rooms at the top of the side menu — build 37.1 · beta · September
✅ A bigger touch area on the room tabs at the bottom, for fumble fingers — build 37.1 · beta · September
✅ VoiceOver skips the bass, treble, height and speech −/+ buttons, since the sliders already step by one — build 37.1 · beta · September
✅ VoiceOver: Play/Pause is the first action on the album art — build 37.1 · beta · September
✅ Music and TV are a real toggle instead of looking disabled — build 34 · shipped · August
✅ Portable speakers (Move, Move 2, Roam) show their battery level — build 34 · shipped · August
✅ Sleep timer — Off, 15, 30, 45, 60 or 90 min, from the menu or the Apple Watch; keeps running with Somos closed — build 38
✅ iCloud sync of presets, home names, room order, saved groups, favourites and playlists — build 38

In the current beta — build 39.0.5, being tested now

Finished and in testers’ hands. Coming soon to the App Store.

🧪 Add watch face (menu → Apple Watch) — Infograph on every watch, Modular Ultra on Ultra — build 38
🧪 Hold menus: hold a saved group, a room tab or a room on the wheel to rename, reorder, ungroup or remove — build 38
🧪 Saved Groups wheel in the bottom bar — build 38
🧪 Add the playing song to a playlist; hearts on every song in the queue — build 38
🧪 Delete a preset — build 38
🧪 A music speaker grouped with a TV soundbar shows the TV input — build 38
🧪 Grouped rooms use the group leader’s presets — build 38

Still to come

◻️ Separate TV and music speaker profiles — presets already do this by hand; switching them on their own when the TV goes off is what is still missing
◻️ Turn Speech Enhancement off by itself when the soundbar goes from TV to music — still being researched
◻️ Hide the bottom-bar rooms you don’t use — reordering them shipped in build 36.0.7
◻️ A preset that applies to a whole group, not one room at a time
◻️ One-tap scenes and macros
◻️ Permanent or scheduled groups — group every room at a set time, play to all of them at another
◻️ Night Mode that turns itself off, and a scheduled quiet mode
◻️ Lock the volume so it does not jump when the TV changes source
◻️ Send the TV speakers back to the group they came from when the TV goes off
◻️ Show which speaker is running a group
◻️ A source indicator while something is playing — Dolby Atmos and the rest
◻️ Play from your own library inside Somos — streaming services shipped in build 36 (see above); your own music server is next
◻️ Albums as a grid with artwork instead of a list
◻️ Plex and Navidrome as music services
◻️ Tint the music page to the service that is playing — Apple Music red, Spotify green
◻️ Use two Move 2 portables as surrounds with a soundbar
◻️ Add a stereo pair to a home theatre, or add a soundbar to an existing pair
◻️ A preset that moves a front speaker back to being a surround
◻️ Shortcuts actions to switch speaker setups — turn a home theatre room into a stereo pair + Sub and back, swap saved speaker layouts (a TV on one wall, a projector on the other), and move a Sub between setups; a Sub can’t play in two setups at once, but it can be moved
◻️ In-app test tones, with the speaker to test picked by you
◻️ An external physical volume knob — Philips Hue are releasing dial and button control for Sonos in November; we will look at it then
◻️ Philips Hue integration — Hue added Sonos support recently; looking into it
◻️ An Android version — asked for most often
◻️ Apple TV support

Asked for, but we can’t

Requested more than once. Either Sonos does not expose them, or they will not work inside the app.

❌ A full graphic EQ, or effects such as reverb — bass and treble are the only tone controls Sonos gives us
❌ Side-channel speakers, alongside fronts and rears
❌ More than four rooms on the bottom bar — past four the names are too small to read; the optional room wheel (build 36.1.1) holds every room instead
❌ Crossover on every speaker — some Sonos models just don’t accept it
❌ Distance settings for surrounds — Sonos only lets us set lip-sync delay, never distance
❌ Front speakers with the same range as the rears — Sonos gives the rears a level control and the fronts none
❌ The Era 300’s own drivers while it is a surround — nothing can reach inside a speaker to switch its drivers on

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