Several years ago, Apple bought a company called Shazam, which made an app that identified songs by listening to the music playing nearby. Since then, Apple has built Shazam into Siri in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. Most recently, Apple added it to Control Center in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 as well, so you can invoke it without speaking. To use Shazam, whenever you want to identify a song that’s playing nearby, just ask Siri, “What’s playing?” or ask “what song is this” or have some fun and say “Shazam!” To add Shazam to Control Center so it can be used without talking to your iPhone, open Control Center and tap the Add Controls (+) button at the top. Tap Add a Control, then choose Recognize Music. To identify a song, open Control Center and tap Recognize Music. You can return to whatever you were doing. When the song is identified, a notification appears with its name. The screenshot below shows the older iOS 14 interface.
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