Google listens to Pixel users, returns a feature it just took away last month

If you’re a dedicated Pixel user, one of the features you probably enjoy having is Now Playing. The latter uses on-device technology to quickly name a song being played within earshot of a Pixel phone. The name of the tune and the artist would appear on the bottom of the lock screen without any prompting from the Pixel user. In those cases when a song could not be discovered by the on-device technology, a message would appear under the fingerprint icon telling the user to tap the screen to identify the song.

Some Pixel users praised Google for returning the “Tap to see what’s playing” feature to Now Playing

Once the screen was tapped, a snippet of the song was sent via the cloud to Google’s servers where it was identified, and sent back via the cloud to the phone.The problem is that the “Tap to see what’s playing” option seemed to go away once Google released a standalone Now Playing app last month. On Friday, Google released an…