Now Playing

Google LLC

About this app

Now Playing automatically identifies music playing around you from your lock screen.

See all the music you've discovered in one place, listen on your preferred music service, and more.

Note: this app is compatible with Pixel6+ phones with the March '26 Pixel Drop update or later.
Please check for the latest system update first if the download option is unavailable.

Ratings and reviews

Gem of an app saves me from having to manually trigger search in YouTube Music or Shazam. but, because it's completely background-run without detection notifications, only way to know if it picked up a song I just heard is BY OPENING THE APP, which obviously gums up the seamlessness. In-app, I also wish is it let me multiselect or bulk transfer to external playlists, so I can share a day of listening in other apps.

They took a once functioning piece of software and in making it standalone absolutely broke everything useful about it. I actually used the notifications from the service for a thing and now that's unavailable. 9/17/26 Edit: It took updating to the latest version both OS and App wise for notifications to come back. We're at least back to previous abilities.

Significant progress made. You can finally sync history directly to Liked Music or a designated playlist, eliminating the tedious track-by-track manual chore. That said, basic bulk library management is still lacking. A standard "Select All" toggle is missing, and there is no raw CSV export for external archiving or cleanup. Definite step forward for functional automation, but adding full batch-selection and data export would finally make it a complete, efficient tool.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.