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Now Playing preps location and activity history, sending feedback to Google [APK Insight]

Now Playing History

With the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, Now Playing added a very useful history to view all your recognized songs and quickly take action on them. The latest version of Pixel Ambient Services in Android Q suggests that location history and the ability to leave feedback are the next major features.


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Google uploads ‘Pixel Ambient Services’ to Play Store, confirming music recognition feature

Late last month a rumor started to make the rounds that the Google Pixel 2 would have an always listening feature that would recognize music playing in the background. It would then use this information and display the song on the handset so the user could easily see what is playing. A new ‘Pixel Ambient Services’ app just showed up in the Play Store which has confirmed this functionality…


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