Let’s check how to get back the details of your favorite song you enjoyed while walking on the street from your Pixel phone.
How to See Now Playing Song History on Pixel
When your Pixel identifies a song being played around you, it will immediately show you the name on the lock screen and the Always on Display. But if you missed it, you can easily go to the Now Playing history. Here, you can see all the songs you’ve recently been around. The Pixel mostly does a pretty good job recognizing songs correctly. However, you might still be surprised by some of the songs here because you probably didn’t pay attention at the time and don’t remember hearing the song. Rest assured, the Pixel did pay attention. How to Get Your Spotify Listening History to See All of Your Recently Played Songs
How to Add Now Playing to Spotify, YouTube Music, etc.
If you like a particular song or a couple of songs, you can directly look for them on your favorite streaming services from here. For now, only YouTube Music supports adding songs from Now Playing directly to playlists. But you can still search for the songs on other streaming services if you use them. If you select multiple songs, you only get the option to add them to a YouTube Music playlist. Now Playing is one of the useful but underrated features of the Pixel. And the lack of availability on Android as a platform means apps like Spotify or Apple Music don’t support the feature. Hence, YouTube Music is the only streaming service for the near future with tighter integration to this service. You can access the Now Playing history even if you miss the song. If you’re wondering, yes, your Pixel is always listening. That’s how it can tell when a song is being played. However, that’s common on most smartphones unless you disable the “Hey Google” or “Hey Siri” hot word that allows you to call your voice assistant with voice. Rest assured, your phones are not constantly sending this data to Google or Apple. Your data is stored only when the hot word is detected. In case of your Now Playing history, that data remains locally on your Pixel.
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