Shazam is compatible with any iPhone or second-generation iPod touch running the iPhone 2.1 software update. Ben Boychuk doesn’t mean to brag, but he can name that tune in two notes.

Find out what music is playing on your iPhone, inside any app, using Shazam’s built-in music recognition.

In the past, iPhones could only identify music playing from external speakers. But with iOS 14.2 and later, your iPhone can identify music playing right on the device. This means you can easily identify a song you liked in a web video or a live stream, even through headphones!

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2. Back in 2018, the California-based Cupertino tech giant obtained Shazam for $400 million. Now for those who are not aware, it is an application that would allow users to recognize songs that were being played around with just one tap. Presently, Apple incorporated the functionalities into its iPhones, which let the users use Shazam on iPhone.
3. Shazam is compatible with any iPhone or second-generation iPod touch running the iPhone 2.1 software update. Ben Boychuk doesn't mean to brag, but he can name that tune in two notes.

Learn how you can use Shazam to identify audio that’s coming from your iPhone.

Add the Shazam Option to Control Center

Before you can use the native Shazam button, you’ll have to add it to Control Center by following these steps:

1. Open Settings and select Control Center.
2. Check whether Music Recognition is already listed in the Included Controls section. If it is, you can skip the rest of these steps.
3. If it’s not there, find it in the More Controls section at the bottom.
4. Tap the green plus button next to Music Recognition to add it.

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Now you can access it in Control Center to quickly identify music playing through headphones or your iPhone’s speakers.

How to Use the Shazam for Music Playing on Your iPhone

Once you’ve added the Control Center widget, follow these steps to use the Shazam functionality:

1. Play a song, a video with background music, or some other music source on your iPhone using the built-in speakers or headphones.
2. Swipe down from the top-right corner of your iPhone’s screen to reveal Control Center. If your iPhone has a Home button, swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
3. Tap the Shazam icon to activate music recognition. The icon will turn blue while it’s listening.
4. Wait for it to listen and search. Your iPhone will vibrate when it’s finished and show a notification with the result.

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View the Results and Play the Full Song

If your iPhone couldn’t identify the song, the notification will say No Result. Otherwise, the notification will display the song, its artist, and a thumbnail of the album artwork.

Tapping the notification will open a Shazam results page in Safari, from which you can play a preview or tap Listen in Apple Music to enter that app.

Tapping and holding on the notification presents an option to Listen on Apple Music directly from Notification Center.

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Your iPhone Knows Its Music

With your iPhone’s music recognition capabilities, you have the power to find the music you love from just about any source. Whether it’s in a video, a podcast, or somewhere else on your device, your iPhone can recognize it!

Keep exploring and you’ll find that there are other great Control Center widgets available for quick access, too.

Here are the most useful iPhone Control Center widgets that are provided by Apple for iPhone users.

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iOS 14.2 makes it possible

What do you do when you hear a song playing around you and want to identify it? Well, we have been either summoning Siri on our iPhones or Apple Watch, asking her to recognize the song, or have been launching the Shazam app for the same purpose. Both options come in handy most of the time but take their own sweet time. Waking up Siri does take a few seconds and fishing out Shazam from the list of apps can also waste a few moments. These few moments are often key when you are out hearing and trying to identify a random song. Also, speaking to your phone (rather than on it) in public can get you some weird glances.

Well, all of this can now be avoided. You can figure out what song is playing around you with just a single tap on your iPhone.

Yep, that simple. The iOS 14.2 update has introduced a feature that will allow you to tap and recognize the songs playing around you. The feature called, “Music Recognition” is basically Shazam in your Control Centre. For those who might have forgotten, Apple bought Shazam back in 2018 for $400 million and after integrating it with Siri, the brand is further weaving the music recognition software into its OS. But instead of calling it Shazam, Apple has added it as Music Recognition with a Shazam logo. And it puts song recognition a tap away on your iPhone.

Here is how you can get the feature on your iPhone!

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Update! Update! Update!

First things first, your iPhone must be running on iOS 14.2 or above in order to get this feature working on your device. If you have not updated your iPhone, you can easily do so by going to Settings. Pick out “General” and then tap on “Software Update”. From here you can update your iPhone to the latest version of iOS available in your region.

Dive into Control Center

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Once your iPhone is updated, you again need to go swimming in the Settings but this time you have to select a fish swimming a little deeper than General and select the “Control Centre” option. It is right below General.

Time to recognize Musical Recognition

After getting into the Control Centre find the feature called “Music Recognition”. You would have to scroll down all the way to the bottom of the page to find it but it will surely be there. The feature will have the iconic blue Shazam icon.

Add Musical Recognition Control to your Centre

Now all you have to do is tap on the tiny green “+” icon right next to it and the feature will be added to the Control Centre on your iPhone. It will now have a “-“ icon next to it – this we will ignore!

Identify songs with a tap:

How To Get Shazam

Next time you hear a song around that you want to identify, do not summon Siri or launch Shazam. Simply swipe down (or up, based on what iPhone you are using) to access your Control Centre, tap on the Shazam icon which is now called Music Recognition. And let it do the job for you. It will identify the song and show it as a notification, tapping on which will open the song in Shazam.

Easy Peasy Apple Squeezy!

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(Note: No Apples were harmed in the making of this article.)