How to identify what song is play with Siri and Shazam

February 28, 2015

Siri now works hand in hand with Shazam, the popular music tagging service. That means, instead of rushing and stumbling to find the Shazam app when a great song comes on and you're desperate to identify it, you can simply have Siri do it for you!

How to tag and identify songs with Siri and Shazam

Make sure the song you want to identify is playing in the background.
Press and hold the Home button to activate Siri.
Say something like "What song is this?" or "What song is playing?", any variation should work.
Siri will then listen and present a result.
If you'd like to purchase the song in iTunes, tap on the Buy button and you'll be taken right to it.
If you want the Shazam app itself to save your newly identified song to your history, make sure you tap on Shazam in the lower right corner. If you just close out of Siri, the tag won't be saved to your Shazam app.
Once you're done, tap the Home button to return to your Home screen.

If you use Rdio's premium service, you should remember to always perform step 6 so your tags not only save in Shazam for reference later, but saves to your Rdio playlist of Shazam tags — if you've chosen to enable that feature. If you don't use Rdio or Shazam you can of course ignore step 6 altogether and just close out of Siri when you're done!