If you’ve ever used Shazam to quickly identify a song playing in a coffee shop, at a party, or even in your car, you know the joy of discovering new music.
But if you’re an iPhone user, you might have unknowingly been missing out on a key feature—until now.
With the latest Shazam 18.9 update, Apple has finally fixed a long-standing gap in its music recognition system.
Before this update, songs identified through the Shazam app were automatically added to your My Shazam Tracks playlist in Apple Music or Spotify.
But if you used Shazam’s Control Center shortcut, arguably the most convenient way to identify songs, those tracks never made it to your playlist. They were stuck in limbo, forcing users to manually search and save them.
Now, that changes. All songs recognized through Shazam, whether from the app, Control Center, Siri, or Shortcuts, will now sync automatically to your Apple Music or Spotify playlist.
No more lost discoveries, no more digging through your Shazam history to manually add songs.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used the Control Center feature to tag a song, only to forget about it minutes later.
By the time I remembered, the track was buried in my Shazam history, sometimes lost forever. This update solves that problem effortlessly.
To activate it, just toggle “Sync your songs” off and on in Shazam settings. Apple even says this will retroactively sync previously discovered tracks, making your playlists more complete than ever.
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