Google’s built-in Song Search is getting easier to access with a new Quick Tile setting. Here’s how it works.
Google Pixel devices currently detect when a song is playing and offer a button to show the song title and artist on the lock screen. But there’s no easy way to access the feature beyond turning off the phone to get to the lock screen. Now Google is bringing a quick tile setting for ‘Song Search’—essentially making Shazam on Android obsolete.
9to5Google spotted the new feature in the Google app 15.39 version, with its new ‘Song Search’ quick tile. Tapping the icon launches the full screen effect with Google listening for the song. A Google search page loads once the match is found. The shortcut comes as the Google app on iOS introduced a customizable search widget to make song search easier on iOS.
Apple’s Shazam has taken a page out of Google’s book with a recent feature update. Now users can long-press the Shazam tile to quickly access the song search history on iOS. This feature has existed for years on Pixel devices, making it easy to detect songs playing at a grocery store, live venue, or coffee shop.
Google’s Song Search has a widget that can be placed on a user’s home screen, or you can use your voice to ask Google what song is playing. It also works with Google’s new Circle to Search feature. The idea is to make identifying songs more readily accessible (while boosting Google search results to boot).
How To Add Song Search Quick Tile on Pixel Devices
- Open the Quick Settings menu.
- Tap the pencil icon.
- Scroll down to find the ‘Song Search’ tile.
- Drag the tile where you’d like it to appear in your menu.
- Tap the tile when a song is playing that you want to identify.
