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The One Trick Anyone with a Sonos Speaker Should Know

There’s a quick way to regroup an unresponsive Sonos speaker with the rest of your Sonos system.

Sonos speaker regrouping trickPhoto by Tucker Bowe for Gear Patrol

By Tucker Bowe

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If you own multiple Sonos speakers and you’ve grouped them together, you might’ve noticed that, on occasion, one of them will stop playing with the rest. It’s annoying.

As a Sonos owner myself, this happens quite often. My Play:5 will de-group itself from my One and Roam speakers, so when I ask Alexa to play music, it won’t play on my biggest standalone Sonos speaker.

Normally, the solution to regrouping a rogue Sonos speaker is to go into the Sonos app. But that takes time, and, let’s face it, none of us have to open the Sonos app if we don’t have to.

Sonos speaker regrouping trick
This regrouping trick works on all Sonos speakers, both new and old.
Photo by Tucker Bowe for Gear Patrol

How to Quickly Regroup Your Sonos Speakers

The good news is that there’s a quick fix for regrouping a rogue Sonos speaker — and it doesn’t involve opening the Sonos app or even touching your smartphone (or computer).

Instead, all you need to do is go over to the speaker that’s not playing, press and hold down the Play/Pause button for three seconds, and it’ll automatically regroup itself with the other speakers already playing.

It’s magic.

Sonos speaker regrouping trick
You can regroup your Sonos speakers in the app, but there’s a quicker way.
Photo by Tucker Bowe for Gear Patrol

This trick requires only two things. Firstly, all the Sonos speakers have to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Secondly, the speaker(s) you want to group the rogue Sonos speaker with must be playing music (otherwise it won’t know what to group with).

Sonos speaker regrouping trick
This little regrouping trick works on Sonos soundbars, too.
Photo by Tucker Bowe for Gear Patrol

This little “hack” will work on any Sonos speaker you have, whether it is an older Play:1 or One, or one of Sonos’s newer speakers like the Era 100 or Era 300. It’ll work on any of Sonos’s portable speakers (so long as they’re connected to your home’s Wi-Fi) and soundbars, too.

If you have a Sonos soundbar and a Sonos speaker in a different room, you can get your TV’s audio to play through that other speaker. Just make sure your TV is on and long-press on other Sonos speaker’s Play/Pause button.

It’s quick and easy. And yes, it works.

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