Find out what music is playing about you lot

To acquire more nearly the music you lot hear effectually you, y'all can accept your Pixel phone automatically identify a song.

  • Depending on where you want to get notifications, you tin run across them if your phone is locked or when y'all're using your phone.
  • To learn more about a song, if your phone is locked, tap the notification twice. If you lot're using your phone, expand notifications at the tiptop, and so tap the vocal notification.
  • Pixel (2016) can't identify songs.

Go song info automatically

Important: Pixel (2016) tin't identify songs.

  1. Open your phone'south Settings app.
  2. Tap Audio & vibration and then Now Playing.
  3. Turn on Place songs playing nearby.
    • Make sure that your telephone is charged and connected to Wi-Fi.
  4. Wait a few minutes while your telephone downloads the vocal database.
  5. Afterward the download is done, songs playing around you will automatically be identified and shown on your lock screen.
  6. To acquire more about a song:
    • If your telephone is locked, tap the song proper name.
    • If yous're using your phone, expand notifications at the pinnacle, so tap the song notification.

Become even more than music with music search

Your phone tin identify a lot of music automatically. If at that place are tracks that it doesn't accept, you can search for them manually on Google with music search.

Important: This characteristic is only available for Pixel 4 and after.

Find songs you heard recently

  1. Open your phone'due south Settings app.
  2. Tap Audio & vibration and then Now Playing.
    • Make sure that "Prove songs on lock screen" is on.
  3. Tap Now Playing history.
  4. If y'all've listened to any songs, yous go a list of songs that have played.
  5. To share a song or listen to it in a music app, tap the vocal. On Pixel 3 and later, you lot can also choose multiple songs to:
    • Heed to on a music service
    • Share
    • Delete from your listing

Favorite a vocal you heard

Important: This feature is available for Pixel 3a and later.

Yous can add a song that's playing nearby to your At present Playing favorites list right from your lock screen.

From your lock screen, tap the music note adjacent to the song championship. Then, a heart is added to the music note. To remove the song from favorites, tap the music annotation again.

To review your favorite songs:

  1. Open up your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Sound & vibration and then Now Playing.
  3. Tap Now Playing history and then Favorites.
  4. To remove a song from the favorites list, tap the eye red heart icon.

Change where notifications appear

If yous don't want to become song notifications at the peak of your screen, you can plow them off.

  1. Open your phone'south Settings app.
  2. Tap Sound & vibration and then Now Playing and then Notifications.
  3. Turn off Recognized Music Notifications. Song info even so displays on your lock screen.

How Now Playing works

On all Pixel phones

When music plays nearby, your phone compares a few seconds of music to its on-device library to endeavor to recognize the vocal. This processing happens on your phone and is private to y'all.

To recognize songs meliorate, Now Playing collects some info, like the pct of times At present Playing correctly recognizes music. Now Playing merely collects this info if you take shared usage and diagnostics with Google. Larn how to update your usage & diagnostic settings.

On Pixel 4 and later with federated analytics

In Pixel 4 and later phones, use of the feature and the counts of songs recognized are aggregated using a privacy-preserving engineering chosen federated analytics. This will be used to meliorate the Now Playing characteristic and its song database so it will recognize what's playing more oftentimes. Google tin can never meet what songs y'all listen to, but the most pop songs in unlike regions. Larn more about federated technology.

If you plough on "Bear witness search button on lock screen", each time yous tap to search, Google gets a short, digital sound fingerprint to identify what's playing.

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