Name that tune!
Easily identify songs on Apple Watch – we show you how
IT WILL TAKE
10 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN
How to use the Music
Recognition app
YOU’LL NEED
watchOS 11 or later
Genius tip
Shazam can only recognise recorded music, but Google can recognise your singing; it has hum, voice and whistling recognition in its iOS app.
Apple’s music recognition service for Macs and more, Shazam, recently celebrated its 100 billionth recognised song.
That means it’s listened to even more songs than someone at Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, and even though the app is very familiar it still feels very much like a magic trick – especially when you can simply ask your watch what song’s playing and get an instant answer. In watchOS 11, Shazam has been renamed (mostly) to Music Recognition, but while it may have a different name it’s still the same music-recognising masterpiece it’s always been. And, as we’ll discover, it’s easy, efficient and really fun to get your watch to tell you what’s playing. Chances are it’s Dance Monkey by Tones and I, the most Shazam’d track of all time with 45 million requests.