Mar 19, 2021 To identify songs from Control Center, tap the Shazam button to identify what's currently playing on your device or around you. Shazam can identify songs playing on your device even if you're using headphones. Requires iOS or iPad OS 14.2 or later. Oct 11, 2020 iOS 14: 11 cool tricks your iPhone's Shortcuts app can do for you now. If you've never used Apple's Shortcuts app or you've only dabbled, it's well worth getting to know the ins and outs of this app. What is the Scripting section in the Shortcuts app? The Scripting actions menu in Shortcuts is, in a lot of ways, a 'system actions' menu. It encompasses so many things that iOS and iPadOS can do as part of the system, like open an app or setting Do Not Disturb. But it's also more of an 'advanced actions' menu for Shortcuts as a whole.

Apple's latest big update to iOS 14 has a lot to be excited about. While iOS 14.2 had some fun new features, such as new emoji and wallpapers, People Detection in Magnifier, and a Shazam control, iOS 14.3 brings on the heat. There are new Apple services and products that are supported, ApplePro RAW is ready to go, the TV app makes searching better, and custom home screen app icons work even. As of version 14.2, that includes adding controls for Shazam baked into iOS, which means rather than load the Shazam app every time you want to identify a song, you simply need to press on a shortcut, and Shazam in iOS will try to find the song. But before you do this, you need to add the shortcut to iOS in the right place, so how do you do this?

Shazam identifies a song by creating a unique digital fingerprint to match what you’re hearing with one of the millions of songs in the Shazam database.

Use the Shazam app

If you have the Shazam app installed on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac, you can use the app to identify music and save the songs to your library.

1. Open the Shazam app on your device.
   
2. Tap or click the Shazam button to identify what’s playing around you.

When Shazam identifies the song, it’s saved in My Music, along with all of your other previous Shazams.

After you've identified a song, you can connect to Apple Music and other music services to listen to your Shazam.

If you don’t have an Internet connection, the app will still create a unique digital fingerprint to match against the Shazam database next time your device is connected to the Internet. If a song can’t be identified, it will disappear from your pending Shazams.

Use Auto Shazam

To enable Shazam to automatically identify what’s playing around you, touch and hold (or double-click on Mac) the Shazam button . When Auto Shazam is on, Shazam will match what you’re hearing with songs in the Shazam database – even when you switch to another app. Shazam never saves or stores what it hears.

You can then find the Shazams identified with Auto-Shazam in My Music, grouped together by date.

To turn off Auto Shazam, tap or click the Shazam button.

Use Shazam in Control Centre on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

You can Shazam songs directly from Control Centre on your iPhone or on your iPad.* To add Shazam to Control Centre, go to Settings > Control Centre, then tap the Add button next to Music Recognition.

To identify songs from Control Centre, tap the Shazam button to identify what's currently being played on your device or around you. Shazam can identify songs being played on your device even if you're using headphones.

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More ways to identify music

• On iPhone or iPad, say “Hey Siri”, then ask what the song is.
• On iPhone or iPad, add the Shazam widget to identify music in the Today View.
• Use Shazam on your Apple Watch to Shazam tracks.
• To identify music from the menu bar of your Mac, get Shazam for Mac from the Mac App Store.
• On HomePod, say “Hey Siri, Shazam this song”.
• Use the Shazam It action to add music recognition to your Shortcuts.

See your previous Shazams

You can see your previous Shazams in the Shazam app on your device and online when you create a Shazam account.

• On iPhone or iPad, swipe up on the main Shazam screen to access My Music.
• On Mac, recent Shazams will appear below the Shazam button.
• On Apple Watch, recent Shazams appear below the Shazam button, and they are also saved to My Music on the paired iPhone.
• To access your Shazams on your other Apple devices and online at shazam.com/myshazam, you can save your Shazams in iCloud. This also ensures you won't lose your Shazams if something happens to your device.

Change your settings

In the Shazam app, swipe up to My Music from the main Shazam screen and then tap the Settings button to adjust Shazam settings:

• Control Notifications from Shazam.
• To enable Shazam to automatically start listening when the app is opened, turn on “Shazam on app start”.
• Use iCloud to back up your Shazams.

Microphone settings on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

Shazam needs access to the microphone on your device to hear what you're listening to. On iPhone or iPad, open Settings, scroll down to the installed apps and tap Shazam, then turn on Microphone. If you can't see an option for Microphone, you may have restrictions turned on for Privacy settings.

Get help

Learn more

• Use Shazam on Android devices.
• You can create a Shazam account to keep track of all your Shazams and view them on www.shazam.com/myshazam.
• In addition to Apple Music, you can connect Shazam to other services, such as Snapchat and Spotify.
• Find out more about Shazam's Terms & Conditions.
• Find out more about Shazam & Privacy.

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It seems like iOS 14 was only just released (it was, in mid-September) but Apple is already hard at work on future versions of iOS 14, namely iOS 14.2. Developers and those signed up to Apple’s Public Beta program can access the latest beta, which offers improvements to the Control Center. In iOS 14.2 beta 2, users noticed a new shortcut – one that uses Apple-owned Shazam to quickly identify music.

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For those unfamiliar with the service, Shazam is designed to listen to music playing in your environment and identify the song, providing you with the song title, artist and shortcuts to add it to your streaming library – as long as you’re an Apple Music subscriber on iPhone or iPad, of course. Shazam has been around for years, but back in 2017, Apple bought the company for a reported $400 million.

Shazam has been available as part of iOS since iOS 8, either via the official Shazam app or by asking Siri what song is playing, but until now, Apple hasn’t made any move to further integrate the music recognition service into its products. That looks to change with iOS 14.2, which introduces a new (unbranded) Music Recognition toggle to the Control Center. It’s not there by default, according to beta users, but it can be enabled in the Control Center section of the Settings app.

The new Control Center toggle allows users to simply hit a button to toggle the Shazam-powered music recognition service and get the result in the form of a push notification. You can tap the notification to take you to the main Shazam app (if you have it installed) and a long-press on the notification provides a shortcut to open the song in Apple Music, although those hoping to get it to open in the likes of Spotify or Deezer will be disappointed.

Along with the new music recognition toggle, iOS 14.2 introduces a redesigned Now Playing interface within the Control Center. Now, when there’s no music playing, the player will show suggestions based on the songs and albums you’ve been listening to recently. Again, this is Apple Music-specific, giving iOS users of third-party streaming services more of a reason to make the switch. The design of the player has been simplified too, allowing quicker access to your audio output, including Bluetooth headphones and AirPlay-enabled devices.

iOS 14.2 is available in beta form right now, and is expected to be released in October. A quick word of warning: don’t install the beta if you’re looking to pick up the rumoured iPhone 12 at release, as it might not ship with iOS 14.2, leaving you unable to restore from your iOS 14.2 backup.

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To find out more about iOS 14, take a look at our top iOS 14 tips, including how to back tap to open apps and how to use your iPhone as a webcam too.