How to do anything on your Mac, iPhone & iPad
Name that tune!
Easily identify songs on Apple Watch — we show you how
REQUIRES watchOS 11 or later
YOU WILL LEARN How to use the Music Recognition app
IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes
GENIUS TIP
Shazam can only recognize recorded music, but Google can recognize your singing. It has hum, voice and whistling recognition ready to help in its iOS app.
APPLE’S MUSIC RECOGNITION service for Macs and more, Shazam, recently celebrated its 100 billionth recognized 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– recognizing 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.