New In iOS 18.2: Siri Can Now Tell You Where You Shazamed Your Songs

A new iOS 18.2 feature enables Siri to tell you where you heard or Shazamed your song. Here are the details on this.

iOS 18.2, which is currently in beta, features a ton of new Apple Intelligence features such as Genmoji, Image Playground, Image Wand, ChatGPT integration and more, but it features one more trick up its sleeve which is not yet known until now.

This discovery comes courtesy of the folks over at the Macworld and they explain it as follows:

iOS 18.2 lets the Music Recognition applet geotag songs based on where users discover them. When a user taps and holds on the dedicated Music Recognition Control Center toggle, and then clicks History for the first time, a new splash screen appears. The page highlights existing features, such as song history and support for iCloud sync, and adds a new feature called Musical Memories.

Once you allow location access, it will automatically enable a geotagging feature that will tag songs with location data. So, going forward, when you discover songs through the Music Recognition tool, it’ll attach your location to the song history so you’ll be able to place the song in a specific place to remember where you were when you heard it.

It’s important to note that this feature currently only works at the individual song level. To retrieve data, you have to manually navigate through the history log. For instance, you can’t create a map of the locations where you searched for songs. This limitation could be improved in the future, such as identifying the coffee shop that introduces you to the most new music.

Apple is expected to release final version of iOS 18.2 to public come December 9.