Shazam has introduced auto-detection in the latest update to its Phone app.
Previously only available on iPad, Auto Shazam listens in the background while the app itself is closed, and saves a history of identified tracks – and in the US and UK, TV programmes and ads – to be viewed later in the app.
“The one thing we have with us all day, every day, is our phone,” said Shazam chief product officer Daniel Danker. “With today’s Shazam update for iPhone, our users can now capture all the media playing around them in the car, at a café, in a cinema, or while watching TV, even when their phone is locked or they’re using it to do something else.” 
The feature is turned off by default, but can be activated using an virtual switch in-app, along with a countdown timer.
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