Shazam App for iPhone Updated With Liquid Glass Design on iOS 26

[MacRumors]

Apple today updated its Shazam app with a new Liquid Glass design, for iPhone users who are running iOS 26 and later.

The app has a new navigation bar that provides quick access to Home, Library, and Concerts tabs, as well as a search button. In addition, recently-identified songs now appear directly on the Home screen, without needing to swipe up.

These changes require the latest version of the Shazam app, which is rolling out now.

Shazam is a popular music identification service that Apple acquired back in 2018. In addition to being available as an app, Shazam powers a Recognize Music control in Control Center on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and you can use Shazam via Siri.

Article Link: Shazam App for iPhone Updated With Liquid Glass Design on iOS 26

 

[turbineseaplane]

I just use this functionality right from control center.

I'm not sure why I'd need or want the App.

🤷‍♂️

 

[WarmWinterHat]

It's metastasizing.

 

[Apple-achian]

It's metastasizing.

*becoming the standard (and across Android soon, starting with Vivo)

 

[Reeneman]

I just use this functionality right from control center.

I'm not sure why I'd need or want the App.

🤷‍♂️

To get the Control Center tool working and to see your song history.

 

[turbineseaplane]

To get the Control Center tool working and to see your song history.

I've never once opened or dealt with the Shazam App ... it's just always worked OOB from Control Center.
Until this article, I'd never even seen the App.


Song history makes sense. 👍

 

[DougieS]

I just use this functionality right from control center.

I'm not sure why I'd need or want the App.

🤷‍♂️

It’s good to see a history of what’s been Shazam’d to refer back to at a later date.

Edit: had page open a while, can see already covered 😂

 

[deuxani]

I just use this functionality right from control center.

I'm not sure why I'd need or want the App.

🤷‍♂️

The control center button didn’t/doesn’t add songs to your history in the app, so for me personally it makes it useless. I always Shazam songs and then after a while I go to the app and add the songs from my history that I like to Spotify.

 

[Dr McKay]

I just use this functionality right from control center.

I'm not sure why I'd need or want the App.

🤷‍♂️

There used to be even more functionality for it in control centre, but then they moved it inside the app 😞

 

[Yigit Ipeker]

By the way, why do I have two Shazam apps on my Apple Watch?

 

[nolankotulan]

To get the Control Center tool working and to see your song history.

You can see the song history by long pressing the Control Center Music Recognition icon.

By the way, why do I have two Shazam apps on my Apple Watch?

There is the old and depreciated Shazam app, which you can and should uninstall now, and the Music Recognition app.

 

[whelmedjedi]

Consumers: where is apple intellegience? Or even siri version on iphone 4s?

Apple: here is some more liquid glass for ya!

 

[tomtad]

 

[Reeneman]

You can see the song history by long pressing the Control Center Music Recognition icon.


There is the old and depreciated Shazam app, which you can and should uninstall now, and the Music Recognition app.

The long press then gives you the option for history which opens the Shazam app 😅

 

[Reeneman]

Consumers: where is apple intellegience? Or even siri version on iphone 4s?

Apple: here is some more liquid glass for ya!

As always, one team for everything. You’re right there were massive resources by the one Apple team blocked to implement Liquid Glass in the Shazam app which now caused a further delay of a better Siri. That’s a shame! Wrong priorities at Apple.

 

[JMalone]

By the way, why do I have two Shazam apps on my Apple Watch?

Because the only way to call Shazam is by smashing the two apps together and shouting SHAZAM.

(If you know the cartoon you’ll know this)

 

[Jashar7]

I just use this functionality right from control center.

I'm not sure why I'd need or want the App.

🤷‍♂️

Well some people use it Stacy, we need to be aware world doesn’t spin just around you and me.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Well some people use it Stacy, we need to be aware world doesn’t spin just around you and me.

Who is Stacy?
Is this a reference to a TV show or movie or something?

 

[nolankotulan]

The long press then gives you the option for history which opens the Shazam app 😅

Uninstall the app and you will see that it is not needed. Same interface, same history, as it is now integrated, the only difference being a link to download the app at the bottom if you want more features, which are practically non-existent.

 

[S3rv3d]

I thought songs Shazam’d via control centre went into your iTunes/Music wishlist? It used to at least. edit: I think it’s in “Siri” in the iTunes Store app

 

[BigBlur]

The long press then gives you the option for history which opens the Shazam app 😅

If you have the Shazam app installed, the button in the control center will integrate with the app.

But you don't need the app installed... I think that's why a lot of people are confused about what the app is for since we can Shazam and view history without it. So the question remains - what does the app provide that the built-in Shazam doesn't?

 

[Reeneman]

If you have the Shazam app installed, the button in the control center will integrate with the app.

But you don't need the app installed... I think that's why a lot of people are confused about what the app is for since we can Shazam and view history without it. So the question remains - what does the app provide that the built-in Shazam doesn't?

Ah okay. Wasn’t aware of that.
In think it’s pretty obvious: more detailed search history, you can directly listen to the songs, connect it with Apple Music or Spotify.
Nevertheless there is no real need for a huge discussion over such an app. Please feel free to try the app out. Simple as that. It’s free, no ads.
Otherwise if you’re fine with only the button, sure it’s fine for everybody

 

[super chimp]

Looks darn strange on iOS 18.7 after the update. I can see why people don’t like iOS 26. Everything with white lights around them and an over design design compared to what went before.

 

[forrie]

I’ve found Shazam to be highly inaccurate. Mostly useless and I don’t understand why they are so bad.

 

[-BigMac-]

To get the Control Center tool working and to see your song history.

The control Centre tool?

You mean the Music Recognition function in the Control Centre which is there by default, or is it some different functionality in the Control Centre if you have the app?