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I've been using Sonophone on iOS since all this kicked off. Not great, but it works. (For me Sonos breaking NAS media server support was killer, and Sonophone can handle it).

Had this not happened sledgehammers would have been going through speakers.

I would still prefer they rolled back to the old app, or made it as an optional re-release.

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You can roll back to the old app and firmware. It does take awhile to do but it is listed as "Sonos S1" in the app store.

Because it is older it has problems with dark mode/light mode. But it is as fast and reliable as ever.

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/downgrade-a-sonos-pr...

Wow I had no idea you could actually “downgrade” things to be compatible with S1. (My units all came with the later app that force updated itself, but appear to be compatible with S1). They had given me the idea the device firmware was ratcheting forward, so once upgraded no way back.

Did this change during all the noise? (Entirely possible I was oblivious)

I’ve been using SonoPhone and SonoPad.

It now works instantly. Even my customsd sources work, and they work better than the previous app too.

Only thing is I had to go to the desktop app to get the customsd sources working on a new network.

I haven’t used the official App in months now.

Thanks for your recommendation! With Sonophone, my group of one Sonos Outside + 2 old Play:3 speakers now reacts almost instantly instead of waiting minutes for that group to be ready to be controlled. Awesome.

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