> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.nudge-app.me/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Nudge Comes to iPad - URL: https://www.nudge-app.me/blog/nudge-for-ipad/ - Published: 2026-10-30T02:18:25.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-30T02:39:19.000Z - Description: Nudge is now on iPad, with a sidebar for your rooms, drag-to-play, full-screen Now Playing and ambient mode. The iPhone app gets landscape Now Playing, StandBy and more. - Author: Ron - Tags: nudge, news, #launch Nudge is now on iPad. It isn't a stretched-out iPhone app: it was laid out for the big screen, so you can browse, pick a room and control what's playing without ever leaving the screen you're on. The iPad app arrives in Nudge for Sonos 26.10.1, alongside a batch of iPhone improvements. Both need iOS or iPadOS 26.1 or later. ## Everything on one screen On iPad, Nudge shows a sidebar, Home and a Now Playing column side by side. You can dig through your music on the left while the song you're hearing stays in view on the right, with its controls a tap away. Your rooms live in the sidebar. Each one has its own page, so you can jump straight to any Sonos speaker and see what played there last. Checking on the kitchen while you're in the living room takes one tap. ![Nudge on iPad: the sidebar with Sonos rooms, Home, and Space Oddity in the Now Playing column](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2b/30/2b30176c-0109-420c-92fd-4be9ef240cd3/content/images/2026/10/nudge-ipad-home.jpg) ## Drag music to any room This is our favorite part. Pick up a song, album or station, drop it onto a room in the sidebar, and it starts playing there. Changed your mind? Tap Undo and the room goes back to what it was playing before. ![Dragging a station onto the Pool room in Nudge for iPad, which shows Play in Pool](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2b/30/2b30176c-0109-420c-92fd-4be9ef240cd3/content/images/2026/10/nudge-ipad-drag-to-room.jpg) ## Now Playing, full screen Open Now Playing full screen and you get big album art and controls you can read from across the room. It's made for an iPad propped on a kitchen counter or docked on a shelf. Pull up the queue right there to see what's next, and tap any track to jump to it. Leave it alone for a moment and ambient mode takes over: the controls fade away and the album art fills the screen while you listen. Touch it and the controls come right back. ![Ambient mode in Nudge for iPad: the album art fills the screen and the controls are gone](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2b/30/2b30176c-0109-420c-92fd-4be9ef240cd3/content/images/2026/10/nudge-ipad-ambient.jpg) ## Fits however you use your iPad Nudge works in portrait and landscape, with the sidebar open or closed. The search bar runs across the top, leaving more room for results, and with a Magic Keyboard you can play, skip and change volume using shortcuts. Setup uses two panes, with a live preview of your speakers as you add them. If you've used Nudge before, you'll get back to your speakers in fewer steps. ![Nudge Home on iPad in portrait](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2b/30/2b30176c-0109-420c-92fd-4be9ef240cd3/content/images/2026/10/nudge-ipad-portrait.jpg) See everything Nudge does on iPad at [nudge-app.me/ipad](https://www.nudge-app.me/ipad/). ## New on iPhone, too The iPhone app picked up plenty in this release: - Now Playing works in landscape. Turn your phone sideways for art and controls, and pull up the queue to see what's next. - A StandBy Live Activity shows what's playing on an iPhone charging on its side. - Search suggests artists, albums and songs as you type. - Tiles and Library rows share the same long-press menu. - Up Next appears only when a speaker plays from its queue, so stations no longer show one. - Volume safety prevents sudden jumps, and a new Volume Increment setting lets you choose the step size. - Now Playing has a new idle screen for when nothing is playing. - DJ access follows you to your other devices once you sign in. - Signing out on one device leaves your other devices signed in. - The free trial only appears if you're eligible, so it won't disappear at checkout. And on [Apple Watch](https://www.nudge-app.me/watch/), Nudge keeps your music on your wrist: swipe between Now Playing and the track details without reaching for your phone. ## Get it Nudge 26.10.1 is available now on the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nudge-speaker-controller/id6761694216?pt=2224478&mt=8&ct=nudge-for-ipad&ref=nudge-app.me) for iPhone and iPad running iOS or iPadOS 26.1 or later. One Nudge subscription covers all your devices, including iPad. Update the app, open it on your iPad, and drag something onto a room. Thanks to our TestFlight testers, who tried the iPad app before launch. Tell us what you think through [Help](https://www.nudge-app.me/help/).