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Shazam’s hidden Music Recognition feature lets you quickly ID songs from your iPhone’s Control Center Nelson Aguilar/CNET
You come upon a song, one that you’ve never heard before, and you’re really feeling it, so of course you’re curious to know the song title and artist. Maybe you ask someone nearby if they know it or you search the lyrics, but if that’s not possible — you’ve always got Shazam on your iPhone.
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Tweak some settings on your iPhone to get the most out of it.
Although music identification apps are great for discovering new music, they’re not really necessary to help you ID a song. In fact, your iPhone has a built-in feature known as Music Recognition, which is powered by Shazam, and allows you to quickly recognize songs directly from the Control Center, without having to download anything.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to set up the feature, use it to identify music and find all the songs you recognize, which for some reason end up hidden on your iPhone.
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Add the Music Recognition feature to the Control Center Nelson Aguilar/CNET
Set up your iPhone’s music recognition feature
Before you can use the Music Recognition feature, you must first enable it. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Control Center and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Under More Controls, you should see Music Recognition. Tap the green plus sign next to it and that will add the button to your Control Center.
Quickly recognize songs on your iPhone
To use Shazam’s built-in Music Recognition on your iPhone (it works with the iPad, too), simply swipe down from the top right of your iPhone to access your Control …….
