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Google’s Now Playing feature is now available as a standalone Pixel app featuring a modern three-tab UI (Now Playing, History, Favorites) and a refreshed Home screen tile, but it’s currently limited to Pixel 10 devices running Android 17 beta and won’t work on older Pixels yet, with a broader rollout to other devices likely in the future.
Google has turned Now Playing into a standalone Pixel app on the Play Store, moving it out of Settings to enable faster updates and greater visibility. The app still identifies songs entirely on-device using a fingerprint database (no audio is sent to the cloud), and Google is testing a refreshed UI with clearer album art and easier navigation between the song history and recognition features.
Google has released an official Now Playing music-identification app on Google Play for Pixel devices, currently limited to the Pixel 10 series (notably Pixel 10 Pro on Android 17 beta). The app features a polished UI, lets you identify songs, save favorites, and quickly link to music services, with optional cloud search for more results; rollout to other Pixel devices appears gradual.
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.