An application like Shazam, intended to identify the title of any song in seconds, should be accessible at any time. To avoid wasting your time scrolling through the home screen of your iPhone, today we are revealing a trick to place a shortcut to Shazam in the control center of iOS..
Add quick access to Shazam on your phone
Should we still present the Shazam application. Launched in 2002, it quickly became very popular with smartphone owners by becoming the very first music recognition service.
The app can recognize music, movies, commercials and even TV shows just by listening to a short sample of it through the phone's microphone. The captured sound imprint is then compared to the company's huge music database..
Since 2017, the company Shazam has been owned by Apple. Following this takeover, the company at the apple integrated the music recognition service into all of its products. For example, it is already possible to find the title of a song using Siri.
Create a shortcut to Shazam
With the arrival of iOS 14.2, Apple is going even further in terms of integration. The American firm now offers the possibility to iPhone and iPad owners to launch the Shazam application directly from the control center via the addition of a shortcut icon..
- Open the settings of your iPhone or iPad
- Find the control center section and click on it
- Scroll down to the other commands section
- You will find the song recognition option (blue icon)
- Tap the green icon to the left of the option
- The iPhone's mobile operating system will automatically place it in the included commands section.
- Go back to the top of the window to check if the operation was successful
- Shazam shortcut icon is now active
Using the gray buttons (3 parallel lines) located to the right of each command, you will be able to modify the display order of the options in the control center. By default the iPhone displays the flashlight function first, followed by do not disturb, the calculator, the camera and the NFC tag reader.
Now, when it comes time to identify a piece of music, all you have to do is open the Control Center (swipe down from the top right corner on phones equipped with FaceID or swipe up from the bottom screen for devices with a home button) and press the Shazam icon.
The Shazam button will light up and blink for a few seconds to inform you that the device is capturing a sample of the music via your smartphone's microphone. Once the song is identified, a notification will appear at the top of the screen with the name of the song and the artist.
By clicking on the banner, you will be automatically redirected to the Shazam site. From this page you can listen to a preview of the song, read the song's lyrics and even add it to the Apple Music library.
Important detail, you do not need to install the Shazam application to take advantage of the music recognition system. The latter is available on all Apple devices running iOS 14.2 or higher.