To learn more about the music you hear around you, you can have your Pixel phone automatically identify a song.
- With the Now Playing feature, you can get info about songs that play nearby. You can also get a list of songs you’ve played and share, search, or listen to them.
- You can find notifications whether your phone is locked or not.
Important:
- Some of these steps work only on Android 10 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.
- Some of these steps require you to touch the screen.
How do I get song info automatically?
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Tap Sound & vibration
Now Playing.
- Turn on Identify songs playing nearby.
- Make sure that your phone is charged and connected to Wi-Fi.
- Wait a few minutes while your phone downloads the song database.
- After the download, your phone automatically identifies songs playing around you and shows them on your lock screen.
- To learn more about a song:
- On your lock screen, tap the name and artist of the song shown.
- If you're using your phone, expand notifications at the top, then tap the song notification.
Now Playing.How do I use Now Playing to find songs I heard recently?
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Tap Sound & vibration
- Tap Now Playing history.
- You get a list of songs that Now Playing has recently identified.
- To share a song or listen to it in a music app, tap the song. On Pixel 3 and later, including Fold, you can also choose multiple songs to:
- Listen to on a music service
- Share
- Delete from your list
How can I get even more music?
Important: This feature is only available for Pixel 4 and later, including Fold.
Your phone can identify a lot of music automatically. If there are tracks that it doesn't have, you can search for them manually on Google with music search.
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Tap Sound & vibration
- Turn on Show search button on lock screen.
- If your phone can’t identify a song, you can search for it. To search for a song, on your lock screen, tap music search
.
How do I Favorite a song?
Important: This feature is available for Pixel 3a and later, including Fold.
You can add a song that’s playing nearby to your Now Playing favorites list right from your lock screen.
From your lock screen, tap the music note next to the song title. Then, a heart is added to the music note. To remove the song from favorites, tap the music note again.
To review your favorite songs:
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Tap Sound & vibration
- Tap Now Playing history
- To remove a song from the favorites list, tap the heart
.
.How can I change where notifications appear?
If you don't want to get song notifications at the top of your screen, you can turn them off.
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Tap Sound & vibration
- Turn off Recognized Music Notifications. Song info still displays on your lock screen.
How does Now Playing work?
On all Pixel phonesWhen music plays nearby, your phone compares a few seconds of music to its on-device library to try to recognize the song. This processing happens on your phone and is private to you.
To recognize songs better, Now Playing collects some info, like the percentage of times Now Playing correctly recognizes music. Now Playing only collects this info if you have shared usage and diagnostics with Google. Learn how to update your usage & diagnostic settings.