Is Sonos Down?

No — Sonos is up

We cannot measure Sonos directly — it blocks automated checks — but Sonos's own status page currently reports no issues.

Last checked 5 hours ago · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://status.sonos.com

Why there is no uptime figure on this page

The last time we fetched Sonos's page directly, the origin answered and turned our client away rather than serving the page. That answer tells us the origin was reachable and responding, but it is a response about our automation, not about whether Sonos works for you.

A percentage built from those checks would measure our own access, so we do not publish one. What this page does show is each region's most recent result and Sonos's own status feed, which you can weigh yourself.

30-day history

Aug 22 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Reachability by region

Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.

fra

HTTP 403 · challenge

Answered in 287ms — the origin is serving traffic, it just refused our client.

gru

HTTP 403 · challenge

Answered in 183ms — the origin is serving traffic, it just refused our client.

iad

HTTP 403 · challenge

Answered in 172ms — the origin is serving traffic, it just refused our client.

jnb

HTTP 403 · challenge

Answered in 1032ms — the origin is serving traffic, it just refused our client.

lax

HTTP 403 · challenge

Answered in 380ms — the origin is serving traffic, it just refused our client.

lhr

HTTP 403 · challenge

Answered in 75ms — the origin is serving traffic, it just refused our client.

nrt

HTTP 403 · challenge

Answered in 546ms — the origin is serving traffic, it just refused our client.

ord

HTTP 403 · challenge

Answered in 118ms — the origin is serving traffic, it just refused our client.

What Sonos does

Sonos makes wireless speakers controlled by an app, playing from streaming services, radio and local libraries across multiple rooms. The speakers sit on your own network but account sign-in and the streaming services they play from are external, so an outage can silence hardware that is working perfectly.

What an outage looks like

The app fails to find speakers that are powered and connected to the network. Sign-in to a Sonos account fails, blocking setup and settings changes. Individual music services stop playing while others work, because each service is tracked separately. Voice control through Alexa or Google stops responding, and Sonos Radio returns errors while local content plays normally.

What to do about it

Check status.sonos.com, which reports Sonos Account, Sonos Services, Sonos Radio and voice control separately, and lists the streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal and Pandora as their own components. If one service is affected, switch to another rather than resetting speakers, since re-adding a speaker needs the account service that may be down.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Sonos is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 18 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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Sonos outage FAQ

Is Sonos down or is it my music service?

status.sonos.com lists each streaming platform separately, so a failure playing Spotify while Apple Music works is a service problem rather than a Sonos one. This is the most common Sonos complaint and usually resolves without touching the speakers. Try a different source before investigating your network or reconfiguring anything.

Should I reset my speakers if the app cannot find them?

No, not during an incident. A factory reset removes the speaker from your system and re-adding it requires the Sonos account service, which may be exactly what is unavailable. That turns a temporary control problem into speakers you cannot set up. Try restarting the app and your router first, then wait.

Can I play music while Sonos services are down?

Often yes. Line-in sources, AirPlay to compatible speakers and Bluetooth on portable models bypass Sonos's cloud entirely, so audio keeps flowing when the app and account services do not. Streaming from an affected service will not work. These local paths are the reliable fallback worth knowing before you need them.

Why has voice control stopped working?

Alexa Voice Control, Google Voice Assistant and Sonos Voice Control are listed as separate components, and each depends on its own provider as well as Sonos. Voice can fail while the app controls speakers perfectly. Use the app or the buttons on the speaker meanwhile rather than repeating voice commands that cannot reach the service.

Does a Sonos outage affect speakers already playing?

Audio already streaming often continues, since the speaker holds a buffer and an established connection to the source. What fails is changing anything: skipping a track, adjusting groups, or starting new playback. That produces the odd situation of music you cannot stop from the app, which the physical controls still handle.

How we measure this

We request Sonos's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them.
A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
Where Sonos publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it — and when Sonos blocks our checks entirely, we report the vendor's own status directly.

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