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Hands-On With iOS 14.2's New Shazam Music Recognition Toggle in Control Center

I forgot about the back-tap features introduced in iOS 14... I went the accessibility touch settings and set the Shazam shortcut to activate upon triple-clicking the back of the iPhone...

The back-tap registers far better than I thought it would considering the phone wasn't actually built with that in mind... rarely activates unintentionally, and always reliably when I intend it to.
 
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The Barron said:
If the new 14.2 Update is as bug-prone with issues as the original iOS 14 was, PLEASE iron out the kinks before you release it, Apple. I know too many people who have screwed up their Apple watches, iPads & iPhones with battery issues, color shifts, pages that will not load, freeze up, etc. due to updating to iOS 14. :mad:
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Im not enjoying my iPhone right now. Apple should have given us a longer period to try-out 14 (public non-beta build) BEFORE13.7 was pulled from signing. 14 seems half-baked!
Oh well

also... /aside/
Seeing 👀 this https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-14-broken-buggy-apps.2242226/ list of Apps still needing updating makes me somewhat regret updating from 13.7! 😔
 
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I can't believe that not a single other person has either the same experience or some info on Shazam not being installed in IOS 14.2's Control Center on my iPhone IOS 14.2 update.

Does that mean I just made fun of Tim Cook way too much or something? :cool:
 
cue Spotify’s complaints about not being equally discoverable, wanting the new features of the building they refuse to pay rent in. 🤷🏽‍♂️
 
mashdots said:
I've been using shazam for years and i've loved how easily it has worked. very excited to have it integrated into the OS!
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shazam has been part of iOS for many years now.. you just have to say to siri: shazam.
 
The Barron said:
If the new 14.2 Update is as bug-prone with issues as the original iOS 14 was, PLEASE iron out the kinks before you release it, Apple. I know too many people who have screwed up their Apple watches, iPads & iPhones with battery issues, color shifts, pages that will not load, freeze up, etc. due to updating to iOS 14. :mad:
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This. My formerly solid battery life (11 Pro) has turned into a potato With iOS 14. Even streaming music via BT can deplete 30-40% within a couple hours. This is not normal. And I care more about this being fixed than the once-a-month chance I might need to invoke Shazam from the control center.
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matrix07 said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I’m reluctant to do it because I found it’s not quite natural but will give it another go. 👍
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It feels more natural than performing palm gymnastics to reach the top right corner.
 
whirldy said:
Im not enjoying my iPhone right now. Apple should have given us a longer period to try-out 14 (public non-beta build) BEFORE13.7 was pulled from signing. 14 seems half-baked!
Oh well

also... /aside/
Seeing 👀 this https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-14-broken-buggy-apps.2242226/ list of Apps still needing updating makes me somewhat regret updating from 13.7! 😔
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That’s so problematic :-(
I think also that launching iPhones and iOS updates so often together (release cycles wise) forces the iOS release to work no matter what with the flagship phone release, potentially hurting older ones. More likely to happen if hardware components happen to deviate a bit on the newer ones.
 
apple_iBoy said:
A long long time ago, Shazam or Soundhound (can't remember which one) was smart enough to recognize and name a song if you just hummed it. It was magical, and I swear I'm not hallucinating it. Now neither seems capable of this. Does anyone know of an app that has this capability?
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Most definitely SoundHound, and it still works.
 
It's a start, but I prefer the thing on Pixel phones that downloads the recognition database and privately, locally recognises whatever's playing in real time and just displays it passively on the lock screen, rather than having to trigger anything.
 
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I hope this works better than the Shazam shortcut, which doesn’t keep track of the songs it IDs in the Shazam app so you can recall it later.
 
rikscha said:
Is it present in 14.2 ...
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Nothing like that that's part of iOS 14.2 (or necessarily will be part of iOS 14). Here are the details of the existing beta for iOS 14.2:
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Apple Releases First Public Betas of iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2 With New Shazam Control Center Options

Apple today seeded the first public betas of upcoming iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2 updates to its public beta testing group, a few days after seeding the first betas to developers and a little less than a week after releasing the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 updates. Public beta testers who have signed...
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jonnysods said:
I feel like I'm missing something - where is 14.1?
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Looks like that will be something that comes with the new phones.
 
You guys used Big Vibe by Seaway? Which one of you staff has the good taste in music? :) Seaway's one of my favorites, been listening to them for years!
 
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