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title: "Sonos finally added Live Activities controls for your iPhone lockscreen"
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description: "Sonos has updated its mobile app to support iOS Live Activities, allowing iPhone users to access playback controls for music and podcasts directly from the lock screen. This highly anticipated feature provides basic details and controls without requiring users to unlock their device or open the app fully, although album art display is not yet supported."
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# Sonos finally added Live Activities controls for your iPhone lockscreen

Sonos released an update to its mobile app that finally introduces support for iOS' Live Activities, giving iPhone users quick access to playback controls on their lock screen. The added functionality is a "much requested, anticipated, and needed feature," according to a post Sonos shared to Reddit today that was spotted by *9to5Mac*.

While some features like displaying album art are not available, the Sonos Live Activity provides basic details and controls when listening to music or podcasts through a Sonos system without having to fully unlock your iPhone and open the app. 

Support for Live Activities and lock screen controls similar to w …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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