Look up that catchy song you can’t get out of your head
About a week ago, Google began testing an audio identification function for Circle to Search, giving users a way to look up unknown songs playing on their phone. It was initially assumed the update wouldn’t come out for some time – October at the latest – but, the tech giant seemingly decided the feature didn’t need any further testing and has begun rolling it out.
A user on the OneUI subreddit encountered Song Search (as they called it) on their Galaxy S23 after installing version 15.32.37.28 of the Google app. They posted several screenshots of the tool in action, and from the looks of it, not much has changed from the demo. Upon activating Circle to Search, you’ll see a new button with a music note icon at the bottom, and tapping it starts the music identification process.
Song Search is quite capable because it can identify what’s playing on the phone and songs that are playing externally on another device.
