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An APK teardown suggests Google is developing a Now Playing Quick Settings tile for Pixel phones, allowing users to manually identify music tracks, a feature that has been missing from the passive automatic detection currently available. This addition would provide a more flexible way to use Now Playing, especially for users experiencing issues with automatic detection.
YouTube Music's Android app is introducing a new feature that allows users to search for songs by humming, whistling, singing, or playing a recording. The feature, marked by a waveform icon, quickly identifies songs with impressive accuracy, though it occasionally misses. This new capability is similar to Google Assistant's existing feature and has been spotted on iOS as well.
Apple's latest update for the Shazam iOS app allows users to identify songs while wearing headphones, even within other apps like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. This new feature works for both wired and Bluetooth headphones, and it expands on the existing capability to identify songs within other apps. Apple acquired Shazam in 2017 and has been integrating it across its platforms, with the app now also available on Mac with macOS Sonoma 14.2.