Sonos iPhone App Finally Gains Live Activities Support

Sonos conscionable updated its iOS app with caller Live Activities support, providing speedy entree to playback controls from your Lock Screen.


Sonos shared a Reddit post announcing the caller feature, which appears aft you initiate playback connected a Sonos instrumentality and past adjacent the app.

The Live Activity shows the existent country oregon radical you were past playing audio from and allows you to play/pause oregon skip tracks. Even if you initiate playback connected Sonos from extracurricular the Sonos app (Direct Control from supported services, Bluetooth, oregon AirPlay) you tin inactive usage the section playback controls that look connected the Live Activity.

As things stand, medium creation can't beryllium displayed connected the Live Activity, but the institution said it's looking into alternate ways to heighten the Lock Screen experience. Sonos besides mentioned that Live Activities enactment connected Apple Watch and CarPlay, but "right present the controls aren't supported" successful these instances.

Sonos called Live Activities enactment a "much requested, anticipated, and needed feature."

(Via 9to5Mac.)
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