Shazam now lets you identify music while wearing headphones, the Apple-owned company announced this week. All you have to do is open the app, check the headphone icon to make sure your headphones are connected and then start selecting music playing around you or within apps like TikTok and YouTube. The new update works with both wired and Bluetooth headphones.
Let’s say you’re watching TikTok with headphones and you see a song you like in a video. You can open the Shazam app, tap on Shazam and then return to TikTok. After a few seconds, the music will stop for a split second and then you can go back to the Shazam app to see the song title and artist.
Or let’s say you are wearing headphones in a café and want to know what song is playing in the café. You can now Shazam the song without having to remove your headphones.
It’s worth noting that Shazam already allowed users to select which songs played in apps, having rolled out the ability to select songs on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok last year. But until now, you can’t do that if you’re wearing headphones.
Shazam was founded in 2002, and was acquired by Apple for $400 million in 2017. The app contains more than 300 million users per month Globally.