Shazam is undoubtedly the most popular song recognition app and is available on both mobile phones and smartwatches with Wear OS on Android. This latest version takes a big step forward by becoming mobile agnostic: Can identify songs from smart watchwithout needing to include the mobile phone.

Shazam is now available for Wear OS get to know songs without connecting to mobile phone. If the watch has its own connection, it is completely independent. Otherwise, it saves the song to be recognized when the Internet connection is re-established.

Recognizing songs from your wrist

Shazam, owned by Apple since 2017, has gained a new hack for Wear OS: Get to know songs without mobile app. It can be used starting from version 14.18 of the application, which can be downloaded from Google Play.

This change gives us Get to know songs with our Wear OS smartwatch No matter where we are and even if we don’t have our mobile phone with us. To do this, the smartwatch must have an Internet connection, either via an eSim or connected to a Wi-Fi network.

The new version of our tracking app recognizes songs without a mobile app. Also offline! When you reconnect, Shazam will search for the topic name. Additionally, identified songs are now synced in real time across all your devices.

But we can also use Shazam on Wear OS to recognize songs even if we don’t have an internet connection. In this case, the application will perform the recognition later when the connection is restored. Even if it takes some time to get the result, it’s still a good tool to “hunt” for songs wherever you go.

Finally, Shazam adds the following option: sync identified songs on all our devices where you are signed in with the same account.

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