Shazam integrates into Control Center in the first beta of iOS 14.2

The dance of new betas does not end with the official launch of the new operating systems. Appla has to test the news that has been kept up its sleeve in new versions. Just yesterday iOS and iPadOS 14.2, tvOS 14.2 and watchOS 7.1 were launched at dawn. The news have been appearing and one of them has to do with Shazam, the music recognition service. In iOS and iPadOS 14.2, Shazam is now part of the Control Center by adding a button that, when pressed, launches the recognition and offers the result of the listening as a notification.

Shazam finally integrates into iOS and iPadOS

In 2017 Apple bought Shazam for $ 400 million. This exorbitant amount of money is what allows Apple to have in its possession one of the most powerful music recognition algorithms on the market. Are millions of users who use the application every day to discover unknown music titles. However, after the purchase of Shazam, the only integration of the service into the Big Apple ecosystem was to integrate it into Siri. Insufficient.

With the first beta of iOS and iPadOS 14.2 we see more integration. We see that a section has been included within the Control Center of the device that can be activated from the management of the control center itself in the system settings. Once we click on the button whose icon is the Shazam logo, recognition begins even if you are wearing the AirPods.

The end result is the launch of a notification with the photograph of the subject, the name and the artist. If you click on it, we could play the song on Apple Music as long as we have an active subscription at the moment. This integration It will allow the consolidation of a service that has been owned by Apple for three years although it has not become as evident as now.