Shazam app not working on iPhone

Same as above Shazam won’t work. I re- booted my phone. Deleted the app and reinstalled. It flashes briefly but doesn’t listen to the music.

Same here. I’ve tried the suggestions multiple times and the app still is not working.

Odd fix. I turned my bold text ON and it worked….. weird!

Solution: Go to Settings, Accessibility, Display & Text Size & turn off bold text.

Apparently from a recent update this is the walk around for the issue. It worked for me & my partners phone.

How frustrating but fixable. Good luck :)

Crazy, but that worked! How'd you figure that out? & how did it get turned on for all of us?

Thanks.

And, yeah, I deleted the app & lost all my shazams but it is working now & you can find your old shazams in Apple Music.

Thanks for posting fix. I was going out of my mind trying to fix Shazam app. Turning off Bold???? Who knew - crazy. I wish Apple which owns the app would have posted something about this so it came up on a search.

just discovered the Shazam app not working on my iPhone…. when I press the app… it fades out for a second … the app doesn’t load… and it goes back to my original screen

found a fix that on YouTube that does seem to work….

check to see if your text font is set to bold (as mine was)…. and slide it to off

after doing this my Shazam seems to be back

hope this helps

That work around worked for me too. But I just hope that problem gets fixed so I am able to again use the large font display, because I need it.

But this was very helpful in order to convert my Shazam’s into my new Apple Music subscription.

Thank you very much.

If you want to fix Shazam, all you do is:

1 - Go into Settings

2 - Click on Accessibilty

3 - Click on Display & Text Size

4 - Turn OFF “Bold Text”

That will fix it instantly! I don’t know why, but it does.

Hope this helps! 👍

If you want to fix Shazam, all you do is:

1 - Go into Settings

2 - Click on Accessibilty

3 - Click on Display & Text Size

4 - Turn OFF “Bold Text”

That will fix it instantly! I don’t know why, but it does.

Hope this helps! 👍

This worked for me. However now I have difficulty seeing text because bold text helps with my inability to see up close or far away. But I use Shazam so frequently that I tried it and it worked. Thank you so much!!!

Same here. It still works when I tap it in my drop down bar. Picks up the song and everything but the app itself will not work! I can’t pull it up to add any of the songs to my Apple Music anymore… what’s going on?!??!!

my latest iOS is 16.7 too

My iPhone X will not be able to update to IOS 17 as its it supported by apple

fix required please apple

I have reported this as a bug to apple

incidentally, when reporting the problem, there is no IOS 16.7 listed in the dropdown menu, so I had to add it in my comments

The interesting thing is that yes turning off the BOLD did work but out of interest i have turned BOLD back on and it’s working fine. strange. …. at least i’ll know what to do if it starts up again 🤔

I have been having the same issue and tried all the same things: delete app, turn off phone, reinstall - nothing worried UNTIL I read a solution here: go to accessibility, display and text then turn off bold text - bingo it works since new upgrade this is very odd fluky upgrade thing but I don’t care, it works!! Thank you!!!