What are Sonos Presets — and should you join the new 27voice AI beta?

Sonos Presets save a music source, room and volume as a one-tap shortcut on the app homescreen. The 27voice natural-language assistant opens a U.S. waitlist on November 6 — here is how both work, and the privacy trade-off to read first.

It is dinner time, the kitchen speaker is silent, and you are tapping through three screens in the Sonos app just to get the same playlist at the same volume you used yesterday. Short answer: Presets fix exactly that. Sonos’s new app update lets you save a music source, a room and a volume as a one-tap shortcut right on the homescreen.

Separately, Sonos opens a U.S. waitlist on November 6 for 27voice, its new natural-language voice assistant, with early access starting November 12 and a wider release planned for 2027.Why it matters: Presets are the most-requested kind of simple fix — no digging through menus for a setup you use every day. 27voice goes further than the old fixed commands: it can start music, move playback to another room, group and ungroup speakers and set timers from natural speech. The trade-off is privacy: unlike classic Sonos Voice Control, which works on the device, 27voice sends requests to Sonos servers after the wake word, so it is worth joining with your eyes open.How to try both:1.

Update the Sonos app, then look for Presets on the homescreen and save your most-used setup first — for example, a morning playlist in the kitchen at a set volume.2. Check your speakers run the S2 platform and Sonos 27 — older S1-era gear is outside this update.3. If you are in the U.S. and want 27voice, request early access inside the Sonos app starting November 6 — access is approved in a small group, in English only at first, starting November 12.4.

Before enabling 27voice, read its privacy note in the app and decide if cloud voice processing is right for your home — you can stay on classic Voice Control instead.5. Note the limits: Presets currently launch from the mobile app only, not by voice or the web app, and they save music playback, not TV audio setups.Pro tip: Make your first Preset the one you reach for daily, not a fancy party setup you will use twice a year — the win is saving thirty seconds every single day.Ad’s take: Presets are my kind of feature — simple, obvious, and it respects your time. The AI voice beta sounds fun, but I would read that privacy note twice before I let any speaker send my voice to the cloud.