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.

In this lesson that has been added to the full tutorial on the Apple Music App for iOS see how we can now use Shazam music recognition directly from Control. Music Recognition Widget: The Apple-owned Shazam app has a new widget which helps the user find music around them and also music playing in different applications Optimized Airpods charging: A new feature in iOS 14.2 optimizes the charging of the Airpods to reduce the aging of the device.

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

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

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

Ios 14.2 Music Recognition Problems

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:

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!

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

The ‘Now Playing’ widget has also been updated for the Control Centre. It will now display the recently played music when there’s no music playing.

Ios 14.2 Music Recognition Features

Apple has just rolled out its iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 to all the end users but the future versions are already under works as the company has rolled out iOS and iPadOS 14.2 in public beta.

So, those enrolled for the public beta updates program will get this as an OTA update. But what does the new iOS 14.2 version brings onboard?

One of the changes you can see is the music recognition function in the Control Centre. The feature is integrated with Apple’s Shazam. As expected, it will let you recognize music that is playing nearly and even inside apps.

The ‘Now Playing’ widget has also been updated for the Control Centre. It will now display the recently played music when there’s no music playing. Also included, is the new interface for AirPlay is supposed to make it easier to connect with multiple AirPlay 2 devices.

Also read: Google makes fun of Apple for this iOS 14 feature

Lastly, there’s a new ‘People Detection’ feature in iOS 14.2 that will use the camera’s abilities to determine how near or far is the person standing from you. This feature is found inside the Magnifier app.

Ios 14.2 Music Recognition

Talking about iOS 14, Google recently made its Search widget available on the platform. This came alongside a Gmail update that lets you make it as a default emailing app. However, some users are disappointed with YouTube since the video platform has introduced PiP mode in iOS 14 but only for ‘Premium’ customers.

And this is not all, YouTube has still not brought the ‘promised’ 4K resolution playback on tvOS 14. Although the feature was there in beta versions, the final version doesn’t have it yet. “Sorry about the back and forth — jumping in to clarify that Apple TV 4K will support 4K playback soon. Stay tuned for an update here,' said YouTube on Twitter.

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