Sonos finally added Live Activities controls for your iPhone lockscreen

Sonos released an update to its mobile app that yet introduces support for iOS’ Live Activities, giving iPhone users speedy entree to playback controls connected their lockscreen. The added functionality is simply a “much requested, anticipated, and needed feature,” according to a post Sonos shared to Reddit today that was spotted by 9to5Mac.

While immoderate features for illustration displaying medium creation are not available, the Sonos Live Activity provides basal specifications and controls erstwhile listening to euphony aliases podcasts done a Sonos strategy without having to afloat unlock your iPhone and unfastened the app.

Support for Live Activities and lockscreen controls akin to what’s already disposable successful the Android type of the Sonos app was teased by the company’s CEO Tom Conrad during an question and reply pinch Bloomberg past February. And pursuing backlash to a major Sonos app update successful 2024, support for Live Activities is disconnected by default but tin beryllium enabled by navigating to some the Sonos app’s preferences arsenic good arsenic the Sonos app conception of iOS’ settings.

Once it’s turned on, the Live Activity will look “after you initiate playback and past adjacent the app” and displays the sanction of the group aliases room wherever audio was past playing from and the title of what you’re listening to. After playback stops, the Live Activity will automatically vanish from your lockscreen aft 15 minutes.

Support for the Apple Watch and CarPlay is included, but while the Live Activity will beryllium displayed connected your wrist aliases successful your car, the controls aren’t supported there. It’s not known if aliases erstwhile those controls will ever work, but Sonos says its squad is still moving to amended the caller feature, and erstwhile it comes to medium art, the institution is exploring “alternative ways to heighten the fastener surface experience.”