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TL;DR

• The new Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 feature Audio Intelligence, allowing Shazam to passively identify nearby music without manual user input.
• Identified song titles and artists automatically populate the Music Recognition widget in the watchOS Smart Stack for easy, glanceable access.
• Apple hasn’t shared a release timeline for the instant Shazam feature, so it will seemingly be available on the new watches at launch.

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Google Pixels have long championed a feature called “Now Playing,” which silently and continuously recognizes music playing around you, even before you ask for it. It’s a very convenient trick and saves you from having to manually Shazam a song. Apple is now borrowing this trick, not on the iPhone, but on the newest Apple Watches instead.

With the arrival of the S11 chip in the new Apple Watch Series 12 and the Apple Watch Ultra 4, Apple is removing the manual friction from ambient song identification. These new smartwatches come with Audio Intelligence, and within the feature, Apple notes that Shazam will now “instantly detect the music playing around the user and automatically display the song title and artist’s name on the Music Recognition widget in the Smart Stack, easily glanceable on the wrist.”