{"id":2285933,"date":"2026-02-17T16:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2285933"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:47:47","slug":"exclusive-google-pixel-music-feature-about-to-get-a-serious-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/exclusive-google-pixel-music-feature-about-to-get-a-serious-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Google Pixel Music Feature About to Get a Serious Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be cool if the <strong>Now Playing<\/strong> service on your Pixel phone had its own app that could get new features more regularly and was easily updatable for Google? That could happen in the very near future.<\/p>\n<p>Spotted within version B.21 of Android System Intelligence, which currently powers <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/tag\/now-playing\">Now Playing<\/a>, Google is preparing a new notification that will soon pop-up and ask you to upgrade and \u201cDownload the new Now Playing app.\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/14\/pixel-now-playing-app\/\"><em>9to5Google<\/em><\/a> noticed a string that will push the new app on users and it should have a shortcut to go to the Play Store for a quick download.<\/p>\n<p>Google will refer to this as Now Playing\u2019s \u201cnew home\u201d and referred to it as, \u201cYour settings, song history, and other features can be found in the dedicated app.\u201d That sounds neat.<\/p>\n<p>For those not familiar, Now Playing is one of the best features built into the Google Pixel line. It\u2019s sort of an always-listening music finder that\u2019ll showcase music playing near you, all without you needing to ask it to identify the song. It has history you can browse through, options to save favorites, and even set a default music player to quickly launch songs from history in your favorite music app. It\u2019s so great.<\/p>\n<p>You might be able to find it on Google Play (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.pixel.nowplaying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>) once it\u2019s live.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.droid-life.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be cool if the Now Playing service on your Pixel phone had its own app that could get new features more regularly and was easily updatable for Google? That could happen in the very near future. Spotted within version B.21 of Android System Intelligence, which currently powers Now Playing, Google is preparing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2285934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Exclusive-Google-Pixel-Music-Feature-About-to-Get-a-Serious.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285935,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285933\/revisions\/2285935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}